MOVIE REVIEW: Transformers (PG-13)

STORY:
An object called the AllSpark drops to Earth, and two alien factions go to find it. The good guys are Autobots, and the bad guys are Decepticons and they are about 28 feet tall robots. And they try to find someone called Sam Witwicky, whose grandpa's glasses shows where the AllSpark is.

POSITIVE ELEMENTS:
Even though Sam looks like he's about 5 feet, and his enemies are 28 feet that doesn't stop him from helping to save his world. Sam stops Bumblebee from shooting all the humans who zapped him, and one of the Autobots recommends that they should kill Sam's parents because they're getting in the way of their quest but Optimus Prime tells him not to hurt any humans. Optimus later mentions that freedom is the right of all sentient beings.

SPIRTUAL ELEMENTS:
Optimus Prime says that the AllSpark created life on Cybertron, (their home planet) but that's the only thing.

SEXUAL CONTENT:
One of the characters named Mikela and Sam love each other, and there are a few scenes where the movie could have done without. For example, there is a scene where Sam tells her to sit on his lap while they're in the car, because the only seatbelt is on his side of the car. And there's a scene with Sam's parents talking to him, about what he's doing in his room and his mom says that he must have been ma------ing. At the end of the movie, Sam and Mikela make out on Bumblebee's hood.

VIOLENT CONTENT:
There's a scene at the beginning where one of the Decepticons destroy an air base, and kills most of the people there. And then at a scene near the end, there is the BIG battle against the Decepticons where both humans and robots are killed. And also when Sector 7, gets a hold of Bumblebee they zap him with lots of electricity causing the poor 'bot to moan in pain. And during the battle at end, when one of the Autobots Jazz asks Megatron if he wants a piece of him, Megatron replies saying "No, I want two pieces!" and rips Jazz into two pieces

PROFANITY:
There are about several times that they say s---, also one of the characters starts to say mother------- but is stopped before he says the f-bomb. And Sam says that Mikela p----- Bumbebee off.

OTHER NEGATIVE ELEMENTS:
There is a scene where a dog relieves himself on an Autobot, and later an Autobot 'relieves' himself on a human's head. And an older woman flips her middle finger to her adult son, and Sam's dog has a broken leg and Sam gives the animal prescribed pain pills. Later, the police find the pills for "Mojo" in the boy's pocket and ask, "Is this what the kids are taking nowadays?" A policeman interrogating Sam sees the youth look at his gun and says, "You eyeballing my piece? Go for it. I will bust you up!" And a government agent holds his badge up to Sam and Mikaela, saying, "This is my do-whatever-I-like-and-get-away-with-it badge."

CONCLUSION:
I would recommend this movie only to mature teens and adults. It is full of swearing, and lots of robot vs. human battles. I give this 3 stars out of 5.