Mithmeoi

Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon… er Dark of the Moon. I keep wanting to call it that. hurrr Ok! Let’s tear into this movie. So, I will say one thing, it was a little better than the second movie, however that doesn’t make it a good movie. I’ll start with the good things.

The effects were astounding, as always. I mean that’s the point of these movies is to watch the super detailed awesome giant robots beat the crap out of each other. I think that’s the ONLY reason to go to these movies. So if you miss it on the big screen well.. it’s not really worth owning on DVD. Wait must pay attention to the good points. So uhm there were a lot of amazing effects. Yes. Many explosions… BOOM BOOM BOOM!

The robots were pretty cool. Thank GOD the two gangsta robots are gone. YAY I was pleased for this. The new robots they added were ok. They weren’t either awesome or annoying. So… whoopeedoop. Music was typical of Transformers. It’s good but… it’s a rehash pretty much except… two songs… which I thought sucked. WOAH WOAH… I’m getting ahead of myself to the bad parts. *ahem* Uhm oh yeah, Shia Labeouf… he actually wasn’t a pussy in this one! Yay for growing a pair! He actually kicked butt and wasn’t a whiny little crybaby about anything. Cool. The designs on the new Decepticons were cool, or rather… epically awesome. I really loved seeing them smash about the screen and disintegrate people. Way cool.

The good guys did kick a lot of butt, which was cool, but… it doesn’t make up for the things I didn’t like enough for me to give this movie a high rating…

So now! On to the bad. First and foremost… the new girlfriend. HOMG I CANT STAND HER. Her and her big fishy lips and British accent and BAH. I should have kept count of all the times they gave us a butt shot of her. Her only purpose in this movie was sex appeal. Yick. I do believe she is worse than Megan Fox. She added absolutely NOTHING to this movie. Well honestly if the movie had just been about the robots I think I’d given it a bigger rating.

The second bad thing about this movie is all the random arse things that go on that contribute absolutely NOTHING to the storyline. There is like an hour of just boring filler. The first half of the movie I seriously wondered when it was going to pick up. It was just boring stuff about Shia, whatever his character’s name is, and his girl and how they’re slowly getting to the point that Decepticons are coming back. Oh and his parents… they pop up for a whole five minutes, talk about how their son has no job and how he keeps losing girls and that must be on account of his small genitalia. WHAT? Why does that need to be there? It wasn’t even FUNNY.

Now despite the awesome explosions and stuff… some of them just made you go… why did that just happen? Why didn’t they do it this way? Well of course they couldn’t do it that way it wouldn’t make for a HUGE ARSE EXPLOSION! I dunno, just seemed like they filled up a lot of places that mighta I dunno added in some cool character development of the bad guys with the humans messing up and the Decepticons making things explode around them.

Bad guys… well they were kinda ho hum to be honest. The designs are so cool but they were pretty weak. I expected a bit more from the biggest baddest prime gone turncoat. Same with Megatron, he was pretty awesome in the other two and in this one he was barely there, and when he was it was maybe ten minutes in the whole movie and then he just dies. Bah!

Overall, I do think it was a slight improvement over the second one, but it doesn’t touch the first one. The first one I enjoyed a lot, despite its flaws and yadda yadda, I liked it, but these last two sequels, I dunno. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it either. This one was just “ok”, I did enjoy watching it but it’s not one I think I’d watch again on the small screen. If you don’t catch it in cinemas for the sparkly effects, it’s one to just skip out on and just watch the first.