Transformers 3

Well, after watching its prequels on the computer, my dear decided that this series should be watched on the big screen and therefore we went to do so.

Though there were much saga about the dropping of Megan Fox in this film in real life, none of it were explained in the film, thus as a result, the sense of discontinuity was rather strong as the new girl seemed more ornamental than critical to the development of the story. But one thing quite interesting was that it tried to link several major historical events together, like the landing of the moon and the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident.

Anyway, it started by introducing a new character, Sentinel Prime, the previous leader of the Autobots, as one of the escapees from the war in Cybertron and that all historical events mentioned about were linked to covering up the fact that Sentinel landed on the moon. Slowly, all these were discovered and Optimus decided to retrieve and revive Sentinel. However, to the Autobots' horror, Sentinel turned to be a traitor and Ironhide was sacrificed as a result (though I never really understood why Sentinel did not take up the leadership when Optimus requested him to lead the Autobots again, as I thought that that will make things simpler if he was the betrayer). As the film progressed, the humans made a deal with Sentinel to exile the Autobots, to which the Autobots agreed by leaving in a space shuttle. The space shuttle was then blew up by Starscream. When I sincerely thought that the Autobots were dead (mainly because I was naive?), they came back to save the day by battling Sentinel and Megatron and stopping the transportation of Cybertron to Earth Though once again, I never knew how they can escape detection just based on their sheer size. Perhaps they had some pointers from Mas Selamat. And guess since this was the last movie, they decided to kill off all the bad guys, destroy Cybertron and have a happy ending. As a result, Optimus killed Megatron and Sentinel after Megatron injured Sentinel in order to relieve his bruised ego upon learning the potential of losing his leadership of the Decepticons, just when Sentinel was about to kill Optimus.

As usual, I'm not a good narrator, thus for a clearer plot, please look for other sources, but I guess it is quite an ok show, though my dear preferred its predecessors as she felt that it lost depth and plot.