Why did I go see this movie? It’s actually a long story, but one factor was advertising that made it look more like The Terminator than like a cartoon. The combination of cool special effects and a monumental battle between the forces of good and evil with some jive-talking 30 foot robots with names like Optimus Prime and an opening narrative that begins “Before time began, there was… the cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it holds the power to create worlds and fill them… with life. That is how our race was born.” I know not why Optimus Prime speaks like that, and I care not about the cube.