If You Like Chewing Bubblegum This Is For You

Rating: 7/10 (3 July 2011)

Okay, right, the plot is confusing. Okay, right, the acting doesn't amount to more than some screaming and yelling and macho poses. Okay, the most absurd casting in the history of film was made by putting British supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in the role of the main lead and love interest. She slides down collapsing buildings, runs though explosions with shrapnel flying everywhere, crawls through burning pits of smoky ash, and doesn't so much as smudge her white sweater or show a single emotion besides sticking out her big pouty lips and speaking a few lines as if lobotomized. But besides all of this, Transformers 3 is pure bubblegum, two and a half hours of explosions and robot violence with at least an hour of Chicago getting attacked that rivals the destruction in any other movie. What do you expect from yet another sequel to a movie based on Hasbro toys? Clint Eastwood giving Meryl Streep a bouquet of fleshly picked flowers? If you want action and over the top special effects this movie is top notch, but if you expect anything else, why go see a movie called Transformers 3 in the first place? I thought it was a lot of fun.