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The latest Transformers movie hasn't even been out a full 7 days yet and it's already grossed over 200 million dollars coming in slightly behind The Dark Knight, who is King of five day ticket sales. I have been excited for this movie ever since I first saw the first one two years ago. I actually didn't even see that one in the theatre- honestly. My Mom and brother had, they raved about it, but I wasn't interested. It came out on DVD and I bought it for my brother, it came in a fancy steel book and you could choose between Optimus or Megatron- I had no idea who they were or what that meant, but I stuck with the blue on, Optimus and boy I'm glad I did. I got home and decided to watch it before I gave it to him. I never gave it to him. I was so impressed with the movie it quickly became one of my favourites. Since then I've watched it countless times, sometimes I'll just put it on in the background when I'm cooking or cleaning or something. When the trailers for the new movie came out a few months ago I was dying, June couldn't get here fast enough.

My mom, brother and I decided to go see it yesterday, we knew it was going to be busy, but we had no idea just how busy until we got there. I'm very picky when it comes to sitting at movies. I have to be dead center and as far back as possible. Don't even try to sit me off to the side. We have plans for when the three of us go to movies. I go to the concession, my Mom and brother get the tickets and then my brother runs off to the theatre to claim our seats as my Mom comes over and helps me carry the popcorn and drinks. We got there at 11am, when the box office opened, so did about 60-70 over people. I was dying, I hate lines, I hate waiting and I hate not getting my spot. That's when we decided to go to the noon showing, instead of the 11:30 one. We got into the theatre just after 11 and the lights weren't even on yet, but we were the first ones there and we got our seats.

The movie was on the long side, coming in at about 2.5 hours. But it was action packed the entire time. The Decepticons are back, bigger and meaner than ever. I've always been scared of Megatron... just something about him makes me want to hide. There were a few sad parts nothing I'll get into though, don't want to spoil anything for those who haven't seen it yet. One part I thought was really funny was when a giant super Decepticon was trying to climb up a pyramid, Agent Simmons commented on it's balls... yes, the Decepticon had balls. I think I laughed the hardest out of everyone in the theatre. Secretly I'm a 15 year old boy who enjoy that's kind of humour. One thing I found that wasn't great was that I had a hard time following which Transformer was what, while the action and fight scenes were good, they all just looked like a giant mash of metal. I found it funny though that when they were fight scenes between the Autobots and the Decepticons and one punched another, instead of blood (because they are robots, they don't have blood) they'd 'bleed' bright red sparks. Of course at the end, they left it open for a third installment, which I have no complaints about.

Overall, I thought the movie was really great and would give it 4/5 stars. It would have been 4.5/5 stars but watching Megan Fox for 2.5 hours takes a toll on ones self esteem. That said, I can't wait to see it again. I'll probably go sometime this week.