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Directed by: Michael Bay, (4/5).

The thing I love about the Transformers movies and the original, awesome, cartoons is that despite being a race of super advanced robots they always end up fighting with swords. First things first, the biggest change in this latest of money-makers is that Megan Fox is no longer on the scene. It’s not so bad though. The new love interest for our woe begotten human hero is Carly, played by Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. She certainly makes up for the loss of Fox as she is both hot and has an accent; a little fake-looking but mint none the less.
 
The movie lives up to expectations. The plot isn’t particularly strong; it’s a good story but it isn’t going to win any awards. But really, no one goes to Transformers for the gripping story. The action is all there. This movie, like the others in the saga, is basically fight-porn and it is good quality porn. Giant, mechanical aliens fighting in slow motion is what this movie is about. Sweet weapons, big explosions and the most awesome of melodies, the sound they make when transforming, occur in spades. I won’t go into too many details, you can go and see it for yourself, but there are plenty of epic fights and new and cool are the scenes involving wing suits and flying soldiers.
 
Like the others in the series the movie gets you pumped up and excited. There really isn’t much to say about the movie other than that it’s good and it delivers. It has a bit of mystery, a touch of conspiracy theory, and a hot chick running in slow motion. One really cool thing about this movie is that it gives quite a lot of back-story to the Autobots, about their home world and the war. Seeing hundreds of silvery robots fighting alongside mechanical panthers really let me ‘get to know’ the comical Autobots. Definitely worth a watch for those who enjoyed the first two with a little bit of new stuff and plenty of the old magic. It made me want to learn kung-fu and invent a plasma rifle or something.