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In Michael Bay's summer blockbuster living alien machines, some good some evil, come to earth in search of a really fancy, expensive looking, limited edition Rubik's cube. As the story unfolds the good robots called "Autobots" make friends, the not so good "Decepticons" make war. This movie has all the great ingredients for a grand popcorn movie: a teenage hero, hot cars, a hot girl, badass soldier types, incredible special effects and an almost completely uninterrupted chain of giant 'bots wrecking property and generally blowing stuff all to hell. The machines look awesome and the movie makers have thrown into the mix every manly vehicle example your heart desires, big rigs, hot rods, police vehicles, jet aircraft, tanks, military helicopters, and a super cool desert scorpion 'bot to boot! The kinder, gentler autobots befriend a young teen and ask his help in their search for the fancy cube and the fact that the young man's new car (a classic Camaro) is actually one of these machines makes for some really inventive and funny scenes wherein human and 'bot are forced to interact. On the opposite side those dirty decepticons are hacking into our government's computers searching for the whereabouts of the very same cube and generally showing their disdain for us humans with a disturbing body count. Of course this is a Michael Bay movie so you know damn well there is going to be a mind-blowing finale wherein a lot of stuff gets burned and broken, people drop by the dozens and a countless number of cars are destroyed by way of explosion and brother this flick delivers like the fourth of July. Best of all, in the end the autobots decide to stick around on earth and try to live in peace among us, which gives me a great idea for an autobot adoption shelter- $75.00 and a case of beer gets you your very own car-shaped alien killing machine (first oil change extra). This movie is loaded with all the things that make a summer movie experience worthwhile, it's good old fashion brainless movie magic. I have to admit I thought this film was going to stink it up, based on Bay's past heavy-handed films but I really enjoyed this flick and as the end credits rolled I found myself calling "Come back Megatron!"
This movie recieves four crusty Jon Voights out of a possible five.