TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON
July 2nd 2011 00:47
Category: Movies
Based on Hasbro’s Transformers Action Figures
Director: Michael Bay
Written by: Ehren Krueger
Producers: Don Murphy, Tom Desanto, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura & Ian Bryce
Starring: Shia LaBeouf (Sam Witwicky), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Carly), Buzz Aldrin (Himself), Josh Duhamel (Major Lennox), Tyrese Gibson (Epps), John Turturro (Simmons), Kevin Dunn (Ron Witwicky), Julie White (Judy Witwicky), Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime), Robert Foxworth (Ratchet), Jess Hartnell (Ironhide), Hugo Weaving (Megatron), Charlie Adler (Starscream) & Leonard Nimoy (Sentinel Prime)
Produced by: Paramount Pictures, Dreamworks Pictures in assoc with Hasbro
Have you ever been a fan of the various conspiracies floating around the internet and world in general concerning the Apollo program and whether or not mankind actually landed on the Moon? You the ones that sort of go along the lines that the whole thing was done in a back lot in downtown Burbank and that Walt Disney funded the whole thing as well as produced it. Or maybe it’s all got something to do with the Freemasons, the Illuminati and Plan 11 from Outer Space? Regardless no of those conspiracies have nothing on what really happened in the first moon landing…at least as far as this movie is concerned.
As with the previous two Transformer movies it all begins on Cybertron, the distant doom laden world that was home to both the Autobots and Decepticons. In the final days of the great war between the two factions a lone starship attempted to flee the battered and beleaguered world, this vessel carried with it a cargo of immense potential and significance to both sides in the war. Pursued by attacking Decepticon vessels the starship is shot to pieces and rather than crashing onto the mechanised perfection of Cybertron ends up hurtling through the deeps of space only to end up crashlanding on the Moon…yes that’s right the Moon…
Naturally it goes without saying that Transformers: Dark of the Moon is your usual special effects laden Hollywood blockbuster, in fact this time around they’ve even made it 3D for those who are into that kind of thing. Fortunately if you’re not a 3D aficionado there is the normal version floating around in cinemas, which is the version I watched in my local movie venue on a cold, slightly wet Friday afternoon. Frankly as far as I can tell the film as a normal flick is just as spectacular and just as action packed and realistically doesn’t need to be in 3D at all, but this seems to be the trend nowadays with the blockbusters. It’s got to be 3D, can’t say why and frankly I can’t say I’d be all that keen to sit in a cinema having bits of cityscape, cars, tanks and Transformers whizzing past me as I was watching the film. No doubt there are those who think this kind of thing is exciting and exhilarating, as far as the Lantern’s concerned it’s just over the top.
Getting back to the unfolding story the major changes in things are that Sam Witwicky has a new love interest, Carly, and that in spite of helping save the earth in Revenge of the Fallen he’s not having much luck in the job field. In fact his new flame seems to be the one supporting him. All in all as far as his life goes things seem to have fallen into a relatively ordinary groove, albeit one that isn’t really looking promising but at least he doesn’t have to live in fear for his life at every moment. Meanwhile his transforming comrades, the Autobots lead by Optimus Prime and his former ‘car’ Bumblebee are engaged in acting as a covert strike force defending the world from its own incipient failings and madness.
It’s during one such mission, sanctioned by the US government with whom the Autobots have formed an alliance that Optimus Prime discovers there is something that his erstwhile allies aren’t telling him. And that something that is being kept secret has to do with that momentous event all those years ago back in the sixties when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the sand soil of the Sea of Tranquillity. In some ways this harkens back to the previous movie, Revenge of the Fallen, where the past if not made transparent or sought after can quite literally come back to bite you on the backside. And here again it is the case with Dark of the Moon, the crashlanding of the Autobot vessel all those years ago and the Moon landings have repercussions, just like the proverbial stone tossed into the pool the ripples spread ever outwards until they hit something. And it is only now that those ripples have reached their target…
Of the three Transformers flicks that have been made to date this was the first I have managed to catch on the big screen and it was spectacular. When you see an action filled extravaganza like this it makes you cherish the idea of cinemas as there is no television screen big enough to capture the action – and then there is the whole vibe of being at the flicks that goes with it. Transformers: Dark of the Moon as well as having vast amounts of carnage and terror also has its more poignant aspects as well as moments of somewhat macabre humour – definitely well worth watching and more than meets the eye…
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