Review - Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Now I'm sure that there are many good reviews out there for this movie. By good I mean to say that there are some well worded and opinionated works, so here is just my two cents.

This movie is gold.

Is that it? Not by a long shot! There were many references and throw-backs to the original Generation 1 series as well as some tie-ins from more recent Transformers mythos.

From the start, the movie revolves around a team of Autobots on a mission to find, and revive, Sentinel Prime, the leader of the Autobots before Optimus Prime. Now from here on in there are a few spoilers so if you want to be surprised, don't read on. Otherwise hang on for some action!

Sentinel (Voiced by Leonard Nimoy) turns out to be working with Megatron and the Decepeticons to use Space Bridge technology to bring Cybertron into Earth's orbit. If you recall Nimoy also voiced Galvatron in the original 1986 animated Transformers: The Movie.

Some other tie-ins to 'formers past comes in the form of the Wreckers, a team of elite Autobots who are the best of the best at taking out 'Cons and other covert Autobot missions.

Meantime, a Decepticon wristwatch, was a throw back to an experiment that the Decepticons did with Sunstreaker and a human in one of the many comic book series based on the Generation 1 story line.

And the final spoiler here for you all. Laserbeak changes himself into a photocopier at Sam's new job. As a Co-worker of his is hitting a button and saying "This is really going Japanese" a snippet of the original transformers theme song can be heard just before Laserbeak transforms and starts shooting the office to bits.

While it was (in my opinion) the best Transformers film to date, excluding the original, the lack of any Decepticon leader or General by the end was kind of a let down as the Micheal Bay series has yet to see what most of us fans want - Unicron. will we see Astrotrain gather up his fallen comrades and scurry away to Char or Cybertron to lay his master and other higherups to rest only to be intercepted along the way? Or will this mark the end of the Chronicles of the Cybertroians? Eitherway I'm fairly certain that Hasbro wont let this one die out any time soon as there are quite a few stories that can come from the rich universe of The transformers.

To close, if you have yet to see this one, do it! Do it now!