Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is not as bad as the reviewers will have you believe - it is just silly.
While the second film was very poorly edited, Dark Of The Moon seemed to flow a lot better but they really ramped up the corny-ness factor and very much overdid the American patriotic thing.
Anyway, we rejoin Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) as he searches for a job having finished college and been given a hero medal by President Obama (in quite a funny scene). He's also ditched, or been ditched by, Megan Fox's character from the previous two films and shacked up with Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) who is far too glamorous to make going out with Sam even remotely realistic but, hey, we're talking about a film with alien robots.
It seems the Decepticons have been in hibernation for a while as the Autobots have taken to helping America in the Middle East.
Sam finally finds a job working for the very odd Bruce Brazos (John Malkovich) and is made aware of a plan by the Decepticons to take over the world by the screwball Jerry Wang (The Hangover's Ken Jeong) who was involved in a cover up of an incident on the moon in 1969. Or something like that.
Cue the return of the Decepticons and all hell breaks loose.
This isn't Shakespeare but it is a great deal of fun. The casting helps a bit, with Frances McDormand, Alan Tudyk and Patrick Dempsey particularly good in their roles and the aforementioned Malkovich is just a genius.
While the second film was very poorly edited, Dark Of The Moon seemed to flow a lot better but they really ramped up the corny-ness factor and very much overdid the American patriotic thing.
Anyway, we rejoin Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) as he searches for a job having finished college and been given a hero medal by President Obama (in quite a funny scene). He's also ditched, or been ditched by, Megan Fox's character from the previous two films and shacked up with Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) who is far too glamorous to make going out with Sam even remotely realistic but, hey, we're talking about a film with alien robots.
It seems the Decepticons have been in hibernation for a while as the Autobots have taken to helping America in the Middle East.
Sam finally finds a job working for the very odd Bruce Brazos (John Malkovich) and is made aware of a plan by the Decepticons to take over the world by the screwball Jerry Wang (The Hangover's Ken Jeong) who was involved in a cover up of an incident on the moon in 1969. Or something like that.
Cue the return of the Decepticons and all hell breaks loose.
This isn't Shakespeare but it is a great deal of fun. The casting helps a bit, with Frances McDormand, Alan Tudyk and Patrick Dempsey particularly good in their roles and the aforementioned Malkovich is just a genius.
It's not as witty as the first film but it does run rings around the second. So sit back, laugh and enjoy the outlandish destruction of Chicago and the probably-not final battle. (You just never know with Hollywood and their sequels). A 7 out of 10.
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