![]() Carly (Huntington-Whiteley), and temporarily abandoned by Bumblebee, who’s off on exciting Autobot missions, Sam jumps into the fray and soon butts heads with national intelligence director Charlotte Mearing (Frances McDormand, bringing her usual no-bull attitude to the proceedings). Currently jobless in Washington, D.C., living with hot g.f. ![]() Meanwhile, hints of renewed activity among the evil Decepticons are just the thing to lure young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf, more cranked up than ever) back into battle. In short order, pic spins an intriguing counter-narrative to the 1969 moon landing, positing a top-secret NASA mission to investigate the remains of Sentinel Prime, once the leader of the Autobots and something of a father figure to Optimus Prime (voiced again by the gravelly Peter Cullen). The result may still be a big, bloated spectacle, but it’s a big, bloated spectacle you can just about follow.Īfter a prologue recapping the civil war that destroyed the Transformers’ home planet, Cybertron, the film launches into an unexpectedly stirring recap of America’s space program during the ’60s (assembled from archival footage and brief re-enactments processed to look retro-grainy). Most notably, to maximize the benefits of the stereoscopic format, Bay seems to have placed a slightly higher value on visual coherence, holding the frame longer than usual, demonstrating more continuity in the editing, allowing the viewer to savor the cars’ 3D-enhanced transformations in tantalizing slow-motion, and including enough wide shots to allow for a more generous, less claustrophobic view of the action. Scripted by “Fallen” alum Ehren Kruger, “Dark of the Moon” boasts a more cohesive story, a more varied rhythm and a fresh target-audience lust object in the form of British model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, stepping in for the equally full-lipped Megan Fox. ![]() Having himself expressed dissatisfaction with 2009’s hugely successful but widely reviled “Revenge of the Fallen,” mass-demolition maestro Bay has made conspicuous improvements with this third entry in the live-action franchise adapted from Hasbro’s popular toys and cartoons. ![]()
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