Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon

(Whistling "That's Amor") Mix in Skrillex dub step without the music portion, throw in a small gun, a big sword, toss in my fantasy actor team (Simon Pegg is benched), an entire jug of awesome, and vala! Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. I know there are a lot of haters out there that love to bag on the second film. It wasn't that bad. I know it wasn't the greatest movie ever made but it wasn't eye gougingly awful, hey we all make bad choices (testicles on a giant robot humping a pyramid) but we need to look past them. Past oops-a-daises aside, there was nothing to look past in this installation of the series; in one word...EPIC!
This third installment of the series revolves around the idea that an Autobot ship crashed on the moon back in the 1960's and it contained a device that could transform (pun completely intended) the war for the Autobots. Now Sam (Shai Labeouf) and all our old friends (sans Megan Fox) must team up with Optimus and the others to stop the Decepticons before they get their hands on it.
This movie was a...wait for it...mazing! It had bigger robots, more explosions, sharper iron age weaponry, hotter love interests, and better actors! What more could you ask for? Star Trek jokes? Has it! Bad ass militia units? Has it! Matching pajamas? IT FREAKING HAS THEM!!! The plot runs well and never loses focus. I loved the Armageddon post apocalyptic feel it had which even trickled into Megatron at the beginning.
My favorite thing of all? CAST! I never expected it and it blew me away! Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Knights Tale) = amazing, Ken Jeong (Knocked Up, Hangover Series) = hilarious, John Malkovich = disarming, Glenn Morshower (Aaron from 24) = classic, Patrick Dempsey = unexpectedly perfect, Lenord Nemoy = legendary, and as always John Turturro (Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Secret Window) and Hugo Weaving (Matrix, LOTR, V for Vendetta, Captain America) rock my socks! Also the cinematography was a lot more spot on than it has been in the previous films. Thank you Micheal Bay! We like to see robots fighting not the legs of robots fighting! POV is an important tool but let's not get carried away (new spiderman trailer)!

Now how should I rate this...I would consider giving it a five but the POV slips and lazy reuse of shots from The Island (yes Micheal Bay, we caught you) knocks it down to a four...but...robot heads being ripped out by the spine with battle axes and the comedy combo of Ken Jeong and Alan Tudyk bring it up to 4.5 Teleportation Pillars out of 5!