Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Review By Lord McLovin of MovieWeb

"They saved the best for last, it's more than meets your eye!"
  • OVERALL
    3.0
    WORTHY
  • Story
  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Visuals
Yes, I know the above qoute is a little corny, but that is how I would perfectly describe this movie. Transformers hit theaters in 2007 and was a fantastic summer popcorn flick, soon it's sequel Revenge of the Fallen was released in 2009, an overloaded action packed terrible movie that's on the same level of Jersey Shore; in 2010 director Michael Bay announced he will be making a third Transforemrs movie. quick, everyone cry themselves to sleep!! We all feared for our lives at how horrible another Transformers movie would have been: no plot, all action, and racist annoying robots, with sexy cam shots of t*ts and ass shoved in our face (scratch that, I wouldn't mind t*ts and asss shoved in my face). But as all hope seemed to be lost, we finally saw Dark of the Moon and holy sh*t crazy Batman, it was outstanding!!

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (hard to get to used to the title when it was first announced, but it helps to say it real fast like this: "darkofthemoon") is the third and final movie in Michael Bay's bombastic action crammed robots in disguise trilogy. What made this unlike the last two, was the eye-popping mind blowing use of filming Dark of the Moon in 3D; that is what really improved on this movie.

The plot's easy as one, two, three: A long lost secret from NASA's past is revealed as the Autobots face an even larger alien invasion when earth is put in danger, it's up to Optimus Prime and friends to save the day from the evil Decepticons. (But in the meantime, Megatron sits this battle out.)

You can't expect the acting to be Oscar award winning perfect, but Megan Fox replacement and British import Victoria's Secret superstar model, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a much better actress than Megan Fox ever was. She may just stand there and look pretty, but it's her faint smoooth voice that has that hint of British sexyness accent, and her plumped up lips give this girl the acting goods. And it saves her from looking stupid too. Shia LaBeouf, he has grown up from that teenager we saw him from the first movie, has now imporved and matured as Sam Witwicky's character is now searching for a job (somewhat I can relate to since I was that teenager trying to get "the girl" and I was that fresh face guy out of high school, and now I'm that adult looking for a job) so I understood his problems.

I can ramble on for hours about the crazy action in this movie, but I wouldn't want to waste your time and let's just finish this by saying that the first 90 minutes, Michael Bay teases us with tid-bits of mild mannered action scenes and it's not up until the last hour or so, that we finally get our hands on those Lambo keys and go for a joy ride in full on epicness.

So there you go, the Transformers trilogy is over, and although it ended a bit quickly, and didn't really wrap things up, it is a hugely satisfying experiencing to enjoy over and over agaain. Full of mind blowing action scenes and great visual effects, th story is better than Reveng of the Fallen; and is just as good as the first film was.

-McLovin

P.S. Stay tuned for my review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo!

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Comments (5)

  1. Lord McLovin of MovieWeb

    @moviemaniac66 Some of the flaws I've noticed were that i keep on seeing some similarities of this and Armaggedon for some reason.

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  2. MovieManiac

    Great review. I seem to like this movie less and less the more I think about it. It's flaws become more evident to me. I would give it the same rating.

    4 months agoby @moviemaniac66Flag

  3. ROFLitschristian

    To me, each Transformer movie is essentially the same, just with improved SFX each time. Glad to know it's not horrible though!

    4 months agoby @ROFLitschristianFlag