Who could forget those super cool robots that could change from cars, planes and other cool technological creatures from the 80's? Yes! I'm talking about the original Transformers. The big summer blockbuster of 2007 that everyone has been talking about is Michael Bay's Transformers.
The movie is very closely based on the 1984 cartoon. It takes place when an intergalactic war goes on between two species of robots from Cybertron; the Autobots and the Decepticons. The Autobots are led by Optimus Prime, while the Decepticons are led by Megatron. War breaks out between the two when the Decepticons want to take over Cybertron. The Autobots hide the Allspark, which is what keeps Cybertron running, on earth so that the Decepticons can't overrule them. When Decepticons find out what they're looking for is on Earth, Earth becomes stuck in between the war.
only know so much because my fiance grew up watching this cartoon
every Saturday morning :)