

The Autobots travel to the Moon and discover Sentinel Prime, the Autobots' leader before Optimus, in a comatose state along with five Pillars he created as a means of establishing a "Space Bridge", a wormhole able to teleport matter between two points. After the two escape, Optimus Prime discovers that the technology is a fuel cell from the Ark, thought to have been lost after escaping Cybertron. During a mission to the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster to investigate suspected alien technology, the Autobots are attacked by Decepticon scientist Shockwave and his giant worm Driller. In the present day, four years after Egypt, the Autobots assist humanity in preventing major conflicts. In 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 lands on the Moon and secretly inspects the Ark before returning to Earth. Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the Moon as a cover for investigating the spacecraft. In 1960, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between Autobots and Decepticons, crash lands on the dark side of Earth's Moon and is detected by NASA.

It was followed by Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014. Like the first film, it was nominated for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards. Dark of the Moon grossed $1.124 billion worldwide, and it was the fifth highest-grossing film of all time and the second highest-grossing film of 2011 and the highest-grossing film in the franchise to date. Though the film was considered a slight improvement over its predecessor among critics and was praised for the score, visual effects, cast and voice performances, and use of 3D, it was criticized for its screenplay and runtime. Dark of the Moon 's release date was moved from July 1 to June 29, in order to monitor an early response to footage.Įxclusive early premieres took place on June 28, 2011, one night before worldwide release. The film was 3D rendered specifically for 3D, and the visual effects involved more complex robots which took longer to render. The film employed both regular 35 mm film cameras and specially-developed 3D cameras, with filming locations in Chicago, Florida, Indiana, Milwaukee, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. It shows the final days of the war between Autobots and Decepticons as they battle to possess powerful technology abandoned on the Moon, in order to restore Cybertron on Earth. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand. The film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. The film is the third installment in the Transformers film series and the sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line.
