Transformers destroyed my kind of town Chicago.

After seeing the firetruck Sentinel Prime in the Lindstrom parade, I was definitely psyched up to watch the third installment of the Transformers: Dark side of the Moon. The fact that the movie was shot mostly in Chicago just doubled my anticipation. So Sam and I head out to Wisconsin across the St. Croix river to go to the nearest movie theatre.

The movie was not wanting of excitement. More than half of the movie was action packed. It was super cool to see Chicago being devastated by the Transformers. I am amazed how good and realistic the destruction was done. It really does make a big difference if the production is for an A-movie as oppose to a B-movie. This time Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) got a new girlfriend in the person of Carly Spencer ( Rosie Huntington-Whiteley). Other former Transformer cast like Lennox (Josh Duhamel), Simmons (John Turturro), Ron Witwicky (Kevin Dunn) and Judy Witwicky (Julie White) reprised their roles. New cast came in the person of Dylan (Patrick Dempsey) as the antagonist of the movie besides the Deceptacons themselves. Frances McDormand was also casted as the tough government official Charlotte Mearing. It was also nice to hear the voice of Leonard Nimoy as Sentinel Prime. On top of the action, there was some heart felt moments that made me choke a little. Also the way the movie took old TV footage of the first successful moon landing of Apollo 11 and weave it as part of the story was genius.

I say it was a very worthwhile movie to see even if it were just to see Chicago being destroyed. 4 stars out of 5.