Going into the theater to see this in IMAX 3D, I couldn't tell whether this was going to be as good as the first one or as bad as the second one. It had an okay story trying to involve NASA as apart of the plot, only bad thing is that they pretty much abandon that plot line after only 20 minutes into the movie. Long story short, some old transformers crashed on the moon that were discovered by astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin that was never revealed until now and the transformers from the moon go to earth, become evil and destroy most of Washington D.C. and Chicago. If you leave the theater at any point, you wouldn't be missing much.
Of course, where does our screaming hero Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) fall into all this? Surprisingly, Ken Jeong's character Jerry Wang (who's like a crazier version of Senior Chang from the show Community) just happens to work at the same office Sam works at and just shoves all this information in his face about the autobots on the moon then literally runs off and dies. If that's a spoiler for you, sorry but I don't care for what I give away for this movie because I could tell the writer only did it for the money. Anyways, back to Sam's plot, he also has a new girlfriend named Carly Spencer (another bullshit yet somewhat clever way to blend in characters from the old TV show into the not-caring Michael Bay franchise) who seems to be a lot more likable and smarter than Megan Fox's character Mikaeyla from the previous two movies. She becomes involved with the plot as well and surprisingly not just because she's dating Sam, but because her boss has come connection with the autobots as well, but I'm not gonna go into that.
So after an hour and a half of bring back old characters or introducing new characters that don't need to be in the movie at all, that's where we have a whole hour of just non-stop action in the city. That's pretty much the only part I found mildly entertaining, not because of the action itself but because it's very laughable on how over-the-top Michael Bay went with explosions and focused more on the military guys than the autobots themselves. I find it laughable that he copied some of the same scenes shot for shot from the first movie, I mean did he even notice or is that all he can do and come up with nothing new? Also I know it's a different city they're fighting in, but why couldn't they have a completely different location instead of the same type of city. Going back to the first movie again, we saw that already! I mean if the title is called "Dark of the Moon", why not have the fights be in outer space? That would've been awesome! New location and inventive choreography could've been done with the autobots, but nope. Instead we have the same fight from the first movie, only it's longer, shows the humans a lot more than the autobots, and it's slightly more boring because you see more explosions than you do of actual fights. Oh, and you have Shia LaBeouf literally screaming every one of his lines the whole time instead of actually doing something. I still think he's a good actor, but I think his contract took over his real acting skills for this flick. It's ridiculous really.
The ending I can't even explain because it ends SO ABRUPTLY! Either way, I still found it entertaining mainly because of the 3D effects. I mean it's no Polar Express or How to Train Your Dragon, but I actually found it to be better than most flicks released in 3D today. I still wish they'd stop releasing everything in 3D but I'll consider this one to be an exception. Also, the music by Steve Jablonsky is good and some action bits are still fun to watch like the car chase in the second act, or the military skydiving. That I thought was kind of cool. Still a bad movie overall.
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