Transformers 3 trailer online

Transformers 3

The first trailer for Michael Bay’s 3D threequel Transformers: Dark Of The Moon has gone online.

And, well, it’s actually not that bad. In fact, it's a little bit good.

After the disastrously overbloated Transformers 2 , it looks like director Bay might make good on his promise to get back to a decent story with this third, and possibly final, robotic smash-up.

This new trailer gifts Transformers 3 with a context and a basic plot, cleverly tying real history in with a story about, yuhuh, big, giant robots.

Check out the trailer below…

So, no sign of any of the main cast, no giant scraps, no rapturous explosions. Just slow, teasing, dread-building images that set up TF3 ’s basic premise.

Michael Bay definitely seems to be making a point with his first trailer, scrapping basically everything we know about Transformers and instead pairing slick visuals with an intriguingly nifty concept.

Transformers 3 just upped the stakes – and boy are we ready for whatever Bay’s got in store.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
opens on 1 July, 2011.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.