Agustus 09, 2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers Wallpaper, Transformers Trailer, Transformers Reviews, Transformers Photos

Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers Wallpaper, Transformers Trailer, Transformers Reviews, Transformers Photos

Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, these giant robot machines, which move among us disguised as cars and trucks but can transform back at any second, have found a new home on Earth after the destruction of their planet, Cybertron. Housed in a government bunker, they're training earthlings to deal with an inevitable Decepticon invasion and (to be said in a booming Barratt Homes voice) "prevent mankind from bringing harm to itself".

Sam Witwicky, played by the unappealing Shia LaBeouf, is the human the Autobots have chosen to be their chief confidant, and by now he's graduated from college and got rid of his hot, biker-chick girlfriend, who used to be played by Megan Fox, dropped from the franchise for hating Michael Bay and for likening him to Hitler (rather than, say, DeMille).

Fox has been replaced by a British underwear model named Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, with whom Bay worked creating adverts for lingerie chain Victoria's Secret in which she purred on a pool table, sprouted angel wings and draped herself on car bonnets, all while wearing knickers and bra. Not much more is required of her here, except that now: Rosie talks.

Or, rather, she gabbles, in that English posh girl, Liz Hurley way that sounds perfectly fine on an afternoon at Henley but which renders her practically unintelligible when surrounded by American accents and falling masonry. In any case, we're first introduced to Rosie via a close-up of her bum, segueing straight from the film's opening sequence and titles on to the pert buttocks and underwear of our heroine. For Michael Bay, exposition must always give way to exhibitionism.

To be fair, the film's opening moments are neatly done in the bombastic Bay style. They posit that the Apollo moon landings were in fact top secret missions to recover alien craft that US radars had spotted landing on the lunar surface several years earlier. (It reminds me of a long-mooted comic action film called Iron Sky, in which fleeing Nazis landed on the moon in 1945 and have been waiting 70 years to launch their revenge, but I don't know what's happened to that one.) We get men walking into rooms and barking: "Get me the president", and faded reconstructions of Kennedy and Nixon in the Oval Office, followed by a well-constructed moon walk in which our astronauts discover a crashed Autobot spacecraft.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Production year: 2011
Country: USA
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 154 mins
Directors: Michael Bay
Cast: Frances McDormand, Hugo Weaving, John Malkovich, Josh Duhamel, Ken Jeong, Patrick Dempsey, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson

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