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Transformers

I finally got to see Transformers. It was a good test of our new sound system, but unfortunately, that was about it. Well, OK, the robots were cool, but I never really got excited about the original Transformers when I was a kid, because the toys were too darn expensive.

There was nothing original about the plot. Every twist has already been heavily overused: the all-powerful, alien artifact hidden on Earth, the evil menace frozen in Arctic ice, evil robots out to destroy Earth, stupid Americans thinking the Russians/North Koreans/etc. are attacking, the secret government agency hiding information about aliens, alien technology being the real source of all the technological breakthroughs of the 20^th century, etc.

I guess it’s par for the course for a summer blockbuster…