Transformers 2 - Revenge of The Fallen

I am serious danger of being a hypocrite over the new Transformers movie, Revenge of The Fallen.
Why? Because when I saw the first one, all I could really talk about is how they (They being the Powers That Be that decide these sort of things) messed up things like Bumblebee not being a VW Beatle, and Megatron not being a gun.
Yes, I’ll be the first to admit that Megatron turning into a hand pistol (Walther PPK technically) would have looked really REALLY stupid on the big sreen, but the fact remains that they changed his composite form.

I will also accept that this is not the Transformers that I grew up with. No Sparkplug, no back history as seen in the cartoon series, no extra baggage from all that.
But to me, it’s like deciding to remake Silence of the Lambs and making Hannibal Lecter a Vegetarian.

Well they at least redeemed Megatron in ROTF – they made him a tank, which is close enough to a gun or even the cannon that Galvatron became.

So, why am I being a hypocrite? Simply put, I LOVED what they did with Soundwave. Partly is it was down to the fact that got Frank Welker to do the voice again; partly because Ravage was “fired” out of him, just like the old days. But mainly because of what he was. He was faithful to his roots.Soundwave was always the infiltrator. How many episodes of the cartoon featured a scene where Soundwave was so obviously hiding in the Autobots command room, listening to their plans? This was exactly that, but for the 21st Century.

But my hypocritical dilemma occurs when I ask myself why I applaud that change, but can’t accept Bumblebee still being true to his original nature?