The United States military has declared war on giant, shape-shifting alien robots. Amid blinding platinum dunes baking in the 105-degree sun, scores of elite servicemen and women cluster in and around real tanks, rocket launchers and personnel carriers as they unleash a machine-gun barrage at an invisible (and entirely fictional) enemy: Transformers. These troops, many of them recently returned from the actual life-and-death realities of Iraq and Afghanistan, aren't professional actors. But for the moment, they are the stars and this is the climactic battle of next summer's sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Sweeeeeet. Not only are the U.S. military going to be represented by their own in this movie, but they get some great PR at the same time. Transformers II is going to be just as big, loud, and awesome as the first. As soon as it comes out on DVD buy a copy and send it to a soldier overseas. How do you feel about the military participation in this film?

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