In this live-action re-imagining of the Transformers, Sam Witwicky is the great-grandson of an explorer who discovered an “ice man” (really a giant robot that had crashed into the ice) while exploring within the arctic circle. At the start of the movie, Sam is just getting his first car — a 1976 Camaro. Gradually, he comes to discover that there’s more to his new car than meets the eye, and, thanks to his great-grandfather’s legacy, finds himself drawn into the middle of a war between two groups of giant, transforming robots.

All in all, this is a pretty good summer action movie, and it’s made a bit better by the nostalgia factor. If you were a fan of the original cartoon, or if you just really, really want to see giant robots fighting each other, then it’s worth going to see.

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