You're judge a series you have NOT seen.
Pardon me. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
At the very least go rent the Transformers Movie on DVD. It will blow you away. It is good on so many levels.
The voice actors.
The plot.
The characters.
The violence.
The cheesy (but up-beat and good) 80's music.
The techno music.
The one liners.
Orson Wells, in his last role ever, as a planet devouring Transformer named Unicron. That alone works on so many levels.