Transformers: Dark Of The Moon vroege review (niet door ons)

Ain't It Cool News heeft een eerste (2D) versie gezien van Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Logischerwijs delen ze op de website een vroege recensie van wat ze tot nu toe hebben gezien aan (on-af) materiaal. Onder de cut een semi-samenvatting. Pas op: bevat plotspoilers.

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON begins with a great concept and a cool backstory [...]: When the war on Cybertron between the Autobots and Decepticons appeared lost to the Autobots, their leader, Sentinal Prime, attempted to launch a craft from the planet, loaded with technology that would have saved their people. Instead, it crashed on earth's moon and the Autobots were forced to flee to earth. Coincidentally, this moon crash happened when John F. Kennedy was president, and he immediately made his famous promise to the nation to put a man on the moon [...]. In fact, according to this film, every NASA moon landing was actually an investigation of this wrecked spacecraft.

The first hour and a half of DARK OF THE MOON focuses primarily on story (with brief fight and chase sequences pepperd in), but it's actually a cool story about the Autobots finding out that the technology that was supposed to save their race and planet has been sitting on the moon the entire time they've been on earth and nobody bothered to tell them; Optimus Prime is not amused. Naturally, we also get the continuing adventures of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who has now graduated college and is desperately looking for his first job. He has a new girlfriend, Carly (supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), who doesn't need an occasion to dress in the tightest clothes imaginable. Bay has a great deal of fun shooting Rosie like he's directing a Victoria's Secret commercial (which he probably did on his days off).

Sam is upset that he's even looking for job, since he believes he should be working side by side with his Autobot friends, going on missions, and helping save he world. The Autobots are now firmly in place as part of America's military, as we see from a brief mission in the Middle East early on. They would have killed Bin Laden years ago. A few Decepticons are still around, including a severely beaten down Megatron, who's especially creepy in DARK OF THE MOON because half of his head is missing and these little spider-like robots crawl in and out of the place where his brain circuitry may have been at one time. He plucks them out, almost without noticing, which somehow makes it worse. Still, Megatron is in good spirits because a plot hatched long ago is coming to fruition.

The clever script manages to find new ways to place Transformers into world events, including one particularly nasty "accident" at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, which was actually the result of some of the moon technology being experimented on. And I don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying that Optimus finds a way to retrieve Sentinal Prime's body from the moon wreckage and revive him (voiced to perfection by Leonard Nimoy).

I'll thank whatever movie gods I have to that Sam's annoying parents are barely in this TRANSFORMERS installment. [...] we don't need comic relief like this anyway when we've got street-smart little robots to entertain us. [...] Just to be 100 percent clear, I'm not referring about the "The Twins" here; they are most definitely not in this film.

There you have it. Het verhaal van de derde en laatste Transformers film. De rest lees je hier. 30 juni mogen we zelf gaan bekijken wat Michael Bay ervan heeft gebakken.