The first clip from Battleship has gone online.  If you didn't know a Battleship movie existed, and I told you this clip came from a Transformers spin-off, you would believe me.  It's sad how much director Peter Berg wants to make a Michael Bay movie.  Berg has the talent to be more than just an imitator, but now this film has two strikes against it.  People were already rolling their eyes at how the notion of adaptating a board game (a game which seems to have so little to do with the plot, you wonder why they even bothered with the license), and now folks can write the film off as a poor-man's Transformers.  No one can out-Bay Michael Bay.  That's what makes him Michael Bay.

Hit the jump to check out the clip.  The film stars Taylor Kitsch, Brooklyn Decker, Alexander Skarsgard, Rihanna, Asano Tadanobu, Liam Neeson, and Spiky Alien Yo-Yos of Death.  Battleship opens May 18th.

Clip via Yahoo! Movies.

Here's the official synopsis for Battleship:

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force. Inspired by Hasbro's classic naval combat game, Battleship stars Taylor Kitsch as Lt. Alex Hopper, a Naval officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones; Brooklyn Decker as Sam Shane, a physical therapist and Hopper's fiancee; Alexander Skarsgard as Hopper's older brother, Stone, Commanding Officer of the USS Sampson; Rihanna as Petty Officer Raikes, Hopper's crewmate and a weapons specialist on the USS John Paul Jones; and international superstar Liam Neeson as Hopper and Stone's superior (and Sam's father), Admiral Shane.

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