| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | D+ |
| Sexual Content: | C+ |
| Language: | D+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
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| Video Release: | 15 Oct 2007 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
There is more to Sam’s beat up clunker than initially meets the eye. What other characters have undetected traits? What does Sam discover about Mikaela’s past? Why do the transformers adopt secret identities?
How does Sam mature during the course of the movie? How does his attitude change toward his grandfather?

Kerry Bennett is interested in media from both a journalist and parent perspective. Along with authoring articles for several family-oriented publications, she has written for Parent Previews for nearly 10 years. She serves as Vice President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness. She and her husband Garry have four sons.