Entertaining movie, but every entertaining movie comes at a price. A price of clichés and stereotypes beyond insanity.

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

Okay, to start this off I grew up with transformers toys and the whole TV series and i was infatuated with it, but that does not mean i will be biased with this review. My childhood with the series can be put aside (for the most part) for this review. I am going to start by saying that I went into this movie with absolutely no expectations. I had already seen the previous two Michael Bay movies. The first one was alright, and the second one...well lets not be coy here it was crap for the most part. Going into this movie with an open mind allowed me to really breathe in the whole essence. I was able to enjoy the moments that were truly enjoyable, and question what was...not enjoyable. Like many Michael Bay movies this has his trademark stamped all over it -loud action -S**t ton of explosions -hot babes -long drawn out climaxes usually involving you guessed it...more action and hot babes In a short synopsis it's a stereotypical summer blockbuster, and a stereotypical guy movie. It's got all the testosterone induced fight scenes an adrenaline junky could ever ask for. Like all action movies that have great action, this movie does have major set backs. The movie starts off at a good pace delving into the back story of the cybertronian war and what happened off screen to help catch any new comers to the series right up. but then the nice pacing all of a sudden gets interrupted whenever the focus of the scenes change from the focus on the auto-bots trying to get to the moon and what-not. It interrupts the pacing of the movie from something serious that almost delves the viewer into the urgency....to scenes of a total schmuck just trying to get a job and live life as an every day jack off. *WARNING SPOILERS STOP READING IF YOU DON'T WANT THE MAJOR TWIST OF THE MOVIE RUINDED...well if you can even call it a twist* I felt that when they had Setinel Prime betray the auto-bots it was kind of unnecessary (although it does make for a very tense and blood pumping climax when optimus whoops his ass in the end). Setinel was Optimus's teacher and one of the leader of the auto-bots, he was like a leader to everyone, and obviously almost even a father figure to optimus. I just found it somewhat odd when he betrayed everything that he had just so he could rebuild cybertron, and most importantly rebuild cybertron under the tyrannical rule that he once fought against. But contrary to this stand point, I could always just be over critical of this and be over analyzing something that really doesn't matter, so excuse me if you find that as the case. Another problem with the movie was the length of the film. For a standard action movie you're looking at the film to be around two hours or so (give or take a half hour) as the run time, but for Dark of the Moon it was roughly almost three hours. And none of the action even happens till the last half of the movie, so what you're left is this back story in the beginning constantly interrupted by a dick head looking for a job (btw john malkovich...pretty funny as usual) as the first half, it's all cluttered up and it's confusing as hell. And then for the last half you have literally all action with little to no scenes of relief, it's all just intense action that they expect you to be interested by because of the back story...but you can't really be interested because of all the mixed up change of focus in the introduction. Anyways to sum it up, it's not a great movie, it has a ton of flaws and it has every stereotype an action movie (let alone any movie of the modern era) has to offer......but it's still entertaining as hell. As a normal movie critic i can only give this an 6 out of ten......but contrary to that from my standpoint of loving transformers and having this be one kick ass film this is a 10 out of 10 on the bad ass scale -FryeGuy