Right lets cut to the chase, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has a crap script and the acting is, for lack of a better word, shit. Sorry Michael, but bear with us because you come off good in the end?
It's still got those bloody parents in it, it's rife with dodgy racial stereotyping, the irritating shitty robots who do nothing but make lame jokes, penis references and Patrick Dempsey. Trust us – the list goes on!
Frankly it's difficult to understand why scriptwriter Ehren Kruger is even working on Transformers still, having failed so miserably with the last film. Worst still, despite getting rid of Megan Fox, director Michael Bay has seemingly opted for yet another hottie with zero acting skills in the form of Rosie Huntington-Whitley who seems to spend more time pouting and looking dead to the world than actually contributing to the bloody film. For a director with such a skill at creating visual feasts for the eyes, he sure is ignorant when it comes to the storytelling behind a film… but this is an brilliant film, right?
See, this is Michael Bay. By his very definition he's inherently dumb-downed, misogynistic and crass. He's been doing it for years and we've been lapping it up from the very moment Bad Boys came out. Honestly, after all the hype, photos, trailers and feature articles before Transformers release you'd think that just one person might have cottoned onto the fact he was going to do the same god damn thing he always does.
Yet even now critics are already lining up to lament Transformers for not delivering something we should all know full well by now that Bay can't deliver, let alone when the main characters are robots with laser cannons for arms.
So just this once, let us say bollocks to scripts, acting and the character development, because if that's your thing then bugger off and go rent a James MacAvoy film.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is spectacle cinema at its very finest. You're not meant to sit up and pay attention, you're meant to put banality aside and let the sheer ridiculousness of the mayhem and carnage wash over you.
Sure, as we've mentioned the script is crap, but admittedly it has its plus points too, with far more audience laughs than personal groans.
Equally the film manages to bring on board more Transformer characters than ever before and give a good account of them, where other blockbusters have failed seemingly failed (See Spiderman 3, Iron Man 2, et al.). If, as many would have you believe, this is to be the final film in the series, it sure is a hell of a way to round off the trilogy and, as always, with some breathtaking action set pieces.
Those wondering whether or not to opt in for the 3D experience definitely should. Unlike the sad gimmicky trash demonstrated in Pirates of the Caribbean or Alice in Wonderland, Transformers instead goes for more of an Avatar based use of 3D technology, providing more of an immersive layered effect (no goofy swords or pikes sticking out the screen here).
Additionally, if none of that made sense, then just stop being cheapskate and pay the extra few quid and you\’ll thank us later because it's one of the few times we're going to endorse the cash cow that is 3D cinema.
The film isn't perfect and anyone expecting it to be might as well sling their hook now. Transformers aimed to be bigger, bolder and more explosive than it's predecessors and it accomplished it in spades… but if you can't get past the fact Michael Bay is a crap storyteller, then you might as well not buy a ticket in the first place.
Dumb. Furious. Things go bang. Ace.
This review was a guest post by James Wright who, after watching Transformers 3, decided to graft metal appendages about his person in an attempt to look like Rodimus Prime. He’s now considered ‘stable’ in the toxic poisoning ward and accepting grapes and bongo mags.
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EssBen says
There is only one Transformers movie, feed this to the Sharkticons!
Dan O. says
It
eric says
transformers 2 was better than 3 i woudn’t even use 3 as a drink coaster