Autobots and Decepticons have been in our world for a lot longer than we realise, or so Transformers: Dark of the Moon tells us. The space race in the 1960s was a competition between the Americans and the Russians to find an Autobot spacecraft that had crash landed on the dark side of the moon. However, because Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did not know what they were looking for, they failed to discover the comatose body of Sentinel Prime (Optimus’s predecessor) within the ship. As usual, the Decepticons want to destroy the earth/rebuild Cybertron, and it is up to Sam (LeBeouf), the Autobots and an eccentric team of humans to try and stop them. Continue reading
