Guest Blogger: Jessa 2

In this science fiction adventure of human vs. artificial intelligence, a boy named Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) buys his first car that turns out to be an alien robot. Sam is a typical teenage boy in high school who’s just trying to fit in and impress his long time crush, Mikaela (Megan Fox). When Sam finally convinces his dad to buy his first car, he gets an old beat up yellow Camaro. When he finds out that his car can transform, Sam discovers a whole new world. He is taken on an action packed thrill ride to find the Allspark and save the human race. Bumblebee, the robot personality of the yellow Camaro, calls in his team of Autobots to help with the search. However, they aren’t the only ones searching for the Cube. The Decepticons, evil Autobots from the planet Cybertron, are also trying to find the Allspark so that they can destroy the human race and take planet Earth for themselves. The Autobots target Sam to help with the search and he agrees when he learns that his great-grandfather, Captain Archibald Witwicky, was the one to discover Megatron, leader of the Decepticons, after he crash-landed somewhere in the Arctic Circle. In his review, Roger Ebert claims the film uses too much CGI to give the audience its feel of intensity and is where the film lost its fourth star. However, I have to disagree with this review. Transformers is an exciting, action-packed thriller that has you on the edge of your seat and curious to see who will win in the end. It’s a typical good guy vs. bad guy plot but with a little extra spin. It adds excitement with airplanes, helicopter, and semi trucks transforming into 10-story tall robots and duking it out in deathly battles all for the good of mankind.