Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 154m
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
Sam is out of college and wants a job worthy of his talents and robotic track record. Fortunately the Decepticons choose just this moment to trick the Autobot Sentinel into helping them use pillars left at a lunar crash site to establish a space bridge and rebuild their beloved planet Cybertron.
Review:
The third live-action Transformers film compensates for its abbreviated title by piling on the spectacle in an absurdly extended armageddon narrative, aka an excuse to trash downtown Chicago. The hero gets some new love interest (with even longer legs), and there are curious cameos from Malkovich and Turturro that do little to advance the plot. The result is an expensive, gaudy mess, transparently calculated to capture every age group with its mix of cuddly critters, robots that are also cars (cool), Cindy doll heroine and wholesale death and destruction. As characters leap unscathed from tall buildings, and survive bone-crunching car wrecks by virtue of slow motion, the Hollywood machine once again proves how easy it is not to care.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 154m
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
Sam is out of college and wants a job worthy of his talents and robotic track record. Fortunately the Decepticons choose just this moment to trick the Autobot Sentinel into helping them use pillars left at a lunar crash site to establish a space bridge and rebuild their beloved planet Cybertron.
Review:
The third live-action Transformers film compensates for its abbreviated title by piling on the spectacle in an absurdly extended armageddon narrative, aka an excuse to trash downtown Chicago. The hero gets some new love interest (with even longer legs), and there are curious cameos from Malkovich and Turturro that do little to advance the plot. The result is an expensive, gaudy mess, transparently calculated to capture every age group with its mix of cuddly critters, robots that are also cars (cool), Cindy doll heroine and wholesale death and destruction. As characters leap unscathed from tall buildings, and survive bone-crunching car wrecks by virtue of slow motion, the Hollywood machine once again proves how easy it is not to care.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 154m
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Frances McDormand, John Turturro, John Malkovich
Synopsis:
Sam is out of college and wants a job worthy of his talents and robotic track record. Fortunately the Decepticons choose just this moment to trick the Autobot Sentinel into helping them use pillars left at a lunar crash site to establish a space bridge and rebuild their beloved planet Cybertron.
Review:
The third live-action Transformers film compensates for its abbreviated title by piling on the spectacle in an absurdly extended armageddon narrative, aka an excuse to trash downtown Chicago. The hero gets some new love interest (with even longer legs), and there are curious cameos from Malkovich and Turturro that do little to advance the plot. The result is an expensive, gaudy mess, transparently calculated to capture every age group with its mix of cuddly critters, robots that are also cars (cool), Cindy doll heroine and wholesale death and destruction. As characters leap unscathed from tall buildings, and survive bone-crunching car wrecks by virtue of slow motion, the Hollywood machine once again proves how easy it is not to care.