First Transformers film? Blew me AWAY. The second film... Not so much, but in all fairness I don't think it was as bad as everyone (including the filmmakers themselves! later) made out. It was just okay. The only reason I felt let down by it was simply because the bar had been raised so high by the first film, that Revenge of the Fallen just did not live up to my high expectations. So what did I make of number 3...?
Dark of the Moon still did not get me as excited as number 1 but I did prefer it to number 2.
Before I went to watch the film, I was a bit dubious about the disappearance of Megan the Fox. I reasoned in my head that I could get over this major character vamoose so long I got a good explanation. "She dumped me, I moved on to something better" is NOT a good explanation! The explanation to why she is now absent was brushed over quickly on only 2 occasions and to me is just unbelievable. So they save the world together - TWICE - and then she just dumps Sam without another word and doesn't get into contact again? Especially when a new war between the autobots, decepticons and humans erupts? NO. No! Grr. Unfortunately Miss Fox was fired from the franchise after she compared director Michael Bay to Adolf Hitler, little drones Wheelie and Brains slate her saying she was not a nice girl (okay so maybe Wheelie has reason) but do I detect a spot of bitterness perhaps? They should have said her character had been killed.
The second thing wrong with this explanation given is also the "I moved on to something better" part...
I understand Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) may be nice eye candy, but I just could not like her! She was gorgeous alright, but her character also seemed to give the impression that she knew it. She seemed to like Sam just because he was "a hero", maybe I am just nit-picking here but at the start when she tells him that she would like him better when he could play half the rent, just got my back up. He was TRYING to get a job at least (I'm in his boat right now, so I sympathise)! Megan Fox was definitely subjected to the "male gaze" in the previous films and this was all Rosie Huntington-Whitely was good for. It isn't even so much that she can't act that annoyed me, I just did not like her character and think Michael Bay should have sacrificed his pride for the sake of character satisfaction for his audience and kept in Megan Fox's character Mikaela.
But character satisfaction/development does not seem to be Bay's strong suit. Josh Duhamel was seriously underused; his character Lennox seemed to be there just to show a familiar face, he had no storyline going on and was absent for vast portions of the film.
Again I felt Sam's parents were included just for the sake of familiar faces, but (like the Dursley's in Harry Potter) it is expected for them to show up and nice when they do, although they can quickly become annoying and some of their dialogue just makes you cringe.
It wasn't all doom and gloom though! I love Shia LeBeouf as Sam Witwicky and although Bumblebee annoyed me in the cartoons when I was young, I love him in the films and he is my favourite Transformer, so I love every scene with him in and my heart always squeezes when his life is being threatened.
I never like how abrupt they kill of the autobots; unless it is Optimus or Bumblebee, there seems to be no emotion involved, they just get killed and then quickly the camera moves on and nothing is mentioned again. A bit more homage would be nice.
The special effects I thought were stunning and there were some really good action sequences too. However, the action sometimes went on a little long and I found my mind had wandered and I had to keep 'bringing it back to the film' which isn't a good sign, but on the whole I still enjoyed the film.
I would say if you are a fan of the Transformers films, then definitely go watch this. If your not really fussed about the franchise, then this one won't make you change your mind.
3/5
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