(MOVIE REVIEW) Bumblebee helps Transform the box office into an Independence Day Weekend record with Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Michael Bay. You can call him a lot of things. Petty? Sure. His conflict with Megan Fox has been very public and he has slung mud with the best of them. Hacky? Absolutely. With presumably one trick up his sleeve, the trick to blow up anything and everything in sight, he is without a doubt one of the most limited director/executive producers in the world (slightly behind producer Jerry “I look like an old man version of Seth Green”  Bruckheimer). A sure bet? All day long. Love him or hate him, Michael Benjamin Bay has produced some of the highest grossing, awe inspiring, visually demanding and record shattering films in the past two decades. With his name attached to titles like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, The Rock, the Bad Boys franchise and the Transformers franchise, Bay is a force in the entertainment industry.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon starts with a bit of a history lesson. We were in a space race with the rest of the world because it became known to the world leaders that alien spaceships had crash landed on the moon and every nation wanted to be the first to claim the wreckage. When the USA does exactly that, they began to take parts and pieces from the moon to study here on Earth. However, a tremendous discovery lay sleeping just below the fallen ships surface. Sentinel Prime, the once great leader of the Autobots.

When Decepticons begin to reemerge on Earth, and the Autobots come to the aid of the humans, the missing Sentinel Prime is found and reintegrated into the Autobots team. Their jubilation is short lived when it is found out that the Decepticons are working with a small group of powerful humans to evict the Autobots from Earth and to bring Cybertron (home of the Transformers) into Earth’s atmosphere and enslave the humans to help rebuild it. When worlds collide and the lines between good and evil are drawn, who will emerge victorious?

Worth the admission? YES! It was such a fun movie. A little long, but very fun. While the humans are not really needed, and it pains me to say that, the robots are clearly the stars of this movie (and rightfully so!). Do not hesitate, go see this movie this weekend! And, as always, bumblebee emerges are the most likely bot in the movie. Be prepared for some of the most amazing visual effects to ever grace a theater screen.

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