First of all, before you read anything other than this lead-in, watch the Super Bowl TV spot for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen below. We'll wait.



And this is how you market your film during the Super Bowl. This TV spot teases and wows with shots of everything that made people love the first Transformers: GIANT F*CKING ROBOTS! There's an awesome shot of some new Autobot performing the signature transformation mid-air, and the last shot is just awe-inspiring. How big is that last Transformer? Originally people were thinking that this was Devastator (who is supposed to be ridiculously huge and actually is made up of a bunch of smaller Transformers known as Constructicons), but apparently /Film did some digging and found that the huge Transformer at the end (the one who is throwing Optimus Prime from screen left to screen right and is about 5 times his size) isn't Devastator but simply one of the Constructicons. Just. One. So what does that mean? That means Devastator is going to be unfathomably ginormous and robot fighting will not be in short supply this summer. I'm definitely being a little fanboy right now, but this film knows what it is, and knows how get the hype machine started. By no means is the Transformers franchise the epitome of good filmmaking, but it's just too fun to pass up. And if it's good enough maybe people will get mad when it's not nominated for Best Picture. Too soon?