Sentinel Prime is revived by his protégé and successor, Optimus Prime (again voiced by Peter Cullen), and the two lead their scant Autobot forces and human allies against Decepticon leader Megatron (Hugo Weaving) in the race to recover the lost technology.Įarth's fate is again in the balance, with LaBeouf's Sam Witwicky naturally at the center of things. It also carried the leader of the Autobots, Sentinel Prime (voiced by Leonard Nimoy, who also is seen briefly as Vulcan Spock from a "Star Trek" episode as Paramount Pictures forges a strange marriage of its two big sci-fi franchises). The crashed vessel carried technology that was the last hope of the Autobots in their losing battle against the Decepticons on their home world. Returning screenwriter Ehren Kruger weaves in a 1960s prologue as NASA tracks the crash of an alien ship on the moon, prompting Kennedy to order a salvage mission under cover of his call to beat the Russians to the lunar surface (along with Kennedy, the prologue features archival footage of Nixon and moon walkers Armstrong and Aldrin, the latter also turning up in a cameo as himself in present times). Unlike "Revenge of the Fallen," part three actually has a plot, or at least starts with one before the movie lapses into nonsense. It's a thin line between the idiotically incomprehensible "Revenge of the Fallen" and the merely incomprehensible of "Dark of the Moon." The action sequences drag on and on, and while the stunts and digital imagery are even more dazzling than the visuals of Bay's first two "Transformers" tales, it all flies by in such frenzy that it remains a challenge to figure out who's who, which robot is which, and what machines you should be rooting for. So Bay and his collaborators set out to show the flesh-and-blood consequences in the war between the benevolent Autobots and their evil counterparts, the Decepticons.īut human consequence in a Bay flick means more shots of Shia LaBeouf bellowing while he and his pals get battered around amid the mayhem. It really felt like people didn't matter in 2009's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," a mega-blockbuster despite being little more than a turgid assemblage of computer-generated machine parts thrashing about. In 3-D, too, so you get to wear those clunky glasses for the franchise's longest movie yet. The human element arises largely from archival footage involving the 1960s moon race, along with images that may disturb younger kids as a succession of screaming, scrambling humans are vaporized by the 'bots like insects in a bug zapper. Spock in search of the human face of the "Transformers" universe.Īnd he came back with another loud, long, bruising and wearisome onslaught of giant, shape-shifting robots. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mr. To his credit, Michael Bay does try to put more human touch into "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," aiming to make up for the clattering mess of overgrown kitchen appliances that duked it out in the franchise's last installment.īay went to the far side of the moon and even to planet Vulcan, enlisting John F.
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