Transformer! More than meets the eyes.

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2013)

My first thought of hearing Transformer: Dark Side of the Moon was that, Pink Floyd was going to do the soundtrack and that Transformer was going into more space Sci-fiction. Sadly, I was a bit disappointed. We start off the movie with some back story of the war between the Autobots and Deceptions fighting on their home world and one of the Transformer's spacecraft crash landing on Earth's moon. When Apollo 11, lands on the moon, they find in the craft, an invention capable of ending the war call 'the Pillars' that allows quick teleportation from planet to planet. This back-story, should have been place in the first movie (2007) as it will make more sense there. I don't know why we're given this information so late in the series. It would have made the wait for the third movie so much more. Also how does this become a government secret for so long? Honestly, you would think the military would be better prepared for the events of the first movie, if they knew this information about the alien spacecraft. Not once, during the events of the first movie, did they think, I don't know, try to use that invention as a weapon against the invading robots. Couldn't some of the back-story about Sentinel Prime (Leonard Nimoy) be put in the 2007 movie!!! He was an big character in the first animation movie. The story felt put into at the last minute and doesn't make any sense to the story already create in this world by the 2007 film. We go with the history of the moon landing to a 'Ass Shot' of Carly Spencer (Rosie Huntington Whitely). The greatest mindless way to introduce your character to your fans, by saying 'yes, she's hot'. Her moon is hotter. In my opinion, it was mindless soft core porn. Couldn't we have something about her, besides that's hot? She's pretty much the hot Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) without any skills set. She takes Carly from the Generation 1 character Carly Witwicky. So we find out that Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is looking for job, yes, the man who save the world twice, can't find a job. Like I will believe that, why wasn't he working with the military or something? By this part of the series, Sam should honestly be a bad-ass, but no!!!! Let me give you an example. In Star Wars: Luke was just a farm-boy who was just a bit silly, who knew how to fly and shoot a blaster, in the second movie, Luke got trained to be a Jedi, and was becoming a bad-ass. The third movie, Luke was a Jedi. I was hoping the same with this movie, yes he can still be a bit funny, but the years of warfare and him losing his girlfriend should have made him more serious. Somebody once said that Sam was the 2007 Marty McFly, but even Marty McFly from Back in the Future had a development arch where he got smarter. Sam is same character, he see in the first movie. In my opinion, I would have shown a back-story of Sam losing Megan Fox's character based on the war, like having her character killed by the Deceptions for God's sakes!!!! Mikaela breaks up with him for no reason. What? It's doesn't make sense for him, to get with Rosie so easy as well. We don't really get to know how they met up, based on the movie, Carly (Rosie's character) was working at the White House when Sam met Obama for a medal and she find him cute. Yeah. That's lames, Carly go from working at the white house to being eye candy. A step back in career choice, in my opinion. When did actual skill become secondary to attractiveness? Carly like the actress playing her has a character arch of a model. There is no reason to like her. Carly is a model who looking to become more popular with the public, and she use Sam as her way to reaching that. Are we supposed to believe that Carly is in love with Sam just because he's cute? Come on! Back to the movie, after mindless comedy shots of Sam looking for a job, that didn't really need to be in the movie, because it will play no part later. We find out that the Deceptions raid the moon for the pillars to invade Earth. Honestly, if they were able to go to the moon, couldn't they invade the Earth without it? What is the point of the pillars if you can quickly get back from Moon to Earth without them? The only thing that made sense was to bring the planet, but if there were like hundreds of Deceptions waiting in the moon to invade the planet, wouldn't they invade with their ships??? It doesn't make sense. The best part of the movie was the Chicago battle remind me of the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King in it's epic scale. I like it. The CGI was great, but it felt like a visual orgy without any plot. The movie song by Linkin Park was pretty awesome as well. It's an enjoyable stupid popcorn flick. It's not Oscar worthy, but it's not the worst movie ever. If you just want explosions and hot chicks, it's so-so movie from Michael Bay. Michael Bay has a way to direct his movie as if it's mindless porn. If you are expecting something akin to the previous two, look elsewhere.