Ok so based on your glowing recommendations, I rented the movie to see with my two teenage sons. And it goes like this: There's this box that turns toasters and cell phones and microwaves into living robots! And if it gets into the hands of evil robots, it is the end of life as we know it. I hate to break it to you all but I actually think that the box is a Borg ship....or a Nintendo Gamecube...one of the two....So there is this war between good robots and bad robots and the Borg ship gets sent off into space and guess what! It lands on Earth. Of all the bad luck! And then the baddesst robot of all, Megatron (who bears a striking resemblance to Commissioner Thompson) also comes to Earth to get the Borg ship, but even though he is more advanced than any imaginable object ever seen, he still crash lands in the Artic and falls into a really bad ice cave where he gets frozen (thank goodness Global Warming has not kicked in yet) Intrepid artic explorers discover him and quite understandanadably bring him to America and present him as a gift to President Hoover who quite promply builds Hoover Dam to cover him up (and we thought Area 51 was where all the weirdos are!) and keep him under ice (this in the middle of the desert). He is kept under cover by a secret group called sector 7 who are not the ones resposible for biologic aliens---that is Will Smith's group.. Anyways the head artic explorer's glasses have a map of where the game cube is and our hero is trying to sell them, knowing that on EBay ANYTHING can and will be bought. THEN all of the sudden a helicopter comes to this military base and KABLAM!! everything goes up in smoke except for a few intrepid warriors. The helicopter turns into a robot and tries to hack the military's hard drive....Why they did not simply hack in from the comfort of their arm chair in say China or India is not explained. Well, all of the sudden our hero has a car that is ALIVE and is everything any father of a high school boy should want--someone else behind the driving wheel! It turns out that this car is not really a car but an autobot that turns into the boy's protection. Then some more autobots turn up and they all like to look like various types of vehicles...I never figured that part out---why the fetish with motor vehicles? But I digress. So back to the er plot....Other bad guys come, Megatron melts and comes alive and we have one heck of a fight on our hands in LA, I think....Megatron has helpers that are called dulcinators and they have catchy nicknames like starfire or star bright or some such strike fear in your heart sort of name...and they are opposed by the good autobots led by Optimus Prime. The bots battle it out, with the mere mortals lending a good hand blasting away with reckless abandon. These advanced bots engage in the most advanced warfare imaginable--tag team wrestling--but it makes for good action as lots of cars get smashed, building mashed, and lots and LOTS of explosions. In the end our hero puts the game cube into Mega man and he gets the three rings of death...oh wait that is XBox 360 right? Sorry...let's just say Megaman is out of warranty and Earth is saved! Entertaining? Yes. Do I have it straight? I highly doubt it. I just hope they do not bring back He-ra and She-ra masters of the universe....
