Cast:
Shia Labeouf as Sam Witwicky
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as Carly Spencer
Tyrese Gibson as Epps
Optimus Prime and Bumblebee...and Shockwave...and Megatron
Plot: The Autobots recover something very important, very valuable to all Transformers that if put in the wrong hands, could end the world as we know it.
Review: I just want to throw this out there before I go into the review. I don't believe that the 2nd Transformers movie was complete shit, like the overall opinion has it. I saw it twice, and enjoyed it enough both times. I will agree that it did take a fall from the first part, and definitely what it should have been.
In fact, Dark of the Moon kind of feels like what part 2 could have, should have, would have been. All the action sequences are really good, explosions and fighting galore. The story really lacked any emotional value. What I mean by that is, when you see the relationship between LaBeoufs and Huntington-Whiteley's character it seemingly gets overshadowed by the war going on between the Autobots and Decepticons. Which by any stretch of the imagination is what everyone really came to see.
Dark of the Moon is the movie that any Transformers movie should be. Total mayhem, machines being the hell out of each other, destroying themselves and their surroundings with hints of a story. Now, i'm not saying that this Transformers movie is a great movie in any sense, but it's what a Transformers movie should be and it's an overall good movie.
Shia LaBeouf returns to play the adventurous, nutty, brave Sam Witwicky and he does his job very well. He has his points of comedy, his spots of heroism. I'll be interested to see what he makes of his career post Transformers cause he seemingly didn't do much between the 2nd and 3rd parts of this series. He's a great lead man, just hope he sticks around.
You'll notice fairly early that Megan Fox is gone. Long gone. If you don't keep up with movie buzz all that much, here it is. In it's simplest form, Fox and director Michael Bay weren't the best of friends and has pretty much deemed her as hard to work with. So she's out and in comes Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a beautiful supermodel with no acting experience. She does alright with her parts, but it's hard to tell how good of an actress she is based on her not being in too many scenes.
The run time for the film is at 2 Hrs and 37 Mins. That's pretty long and it'll probably be the longest movie of the year, standing next to the upcoming Harry Potter flick. Did it absolutely need to be this long? Not really. It could have been cut down to 2 hrs and 10 mins and probably been just as good. But, i'm not the filmmaker.
By all accounts, this seems like it'll be the last Transformers movie for a while. Nothing was set up at the end of the film, nothing has been rumored about. If that's the case, then it was a nice run for Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf and the Transformers series as a whole. It made lots of money, put a couple of actors on the path of stardom and for the most part did justice to the robots in disguise.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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