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Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2011)

I would very much like to do a poo on this movie. It adds to the proof that Hollywood is purely a business, obsessed with making money rather than pushing cinematic boundaries. Yes, the special effects were good - I was fortunate to go see this in 3D at an IMAX cinema. But the effects were not a great deal better than the first or second Transformers movies. It was just more of the same. A great deal of the world also appears to be in mourning over the removal of Megan Fox from the franchise. Yet her replacement was just as attractive and lacked the same amount of acting ability to make her equally as cringe-worthy throughout. And the potential for a higher class of acting was completely wasted by Bay as he reduced the likes of John Malkovich and Frances McDormand to mere extras. I would also have liked to see less of Dr McDreamy running around with his pointless twist in the story, and more of Laserbeak slapping him across the eyes.
BUT... I enjoyed it. Despite being a married family man, there is still a part of me that would like to take a day off work so I can go home and play with Lego. For that reason, Transformers 3 put a big smile on my face. I wasn't expecting The King's Speech. I wanted them to blow stuff up and do some car chases. And I felt like I'd got my money's worth (IMAX is chuffing expensive...). It didn't matter that the producers thought that all you need to do to make a scene emotional is to pipe in some soppy Linkin Park tune. It didn't matter that they went all Team America on us. At the end of the day, the CGI still blew me away, the action was glorious and Rosie whatsername was fit.