Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D

Movie: Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D

Genre: sci-fi

Synopsis: It turns out that America’s race to the moon was actually staged so that the astronauts could check out a crashed alien space vehicle.  Fast forward to today and the Autobots have been integrated into human society to guard against Decepticons.  Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) is unemployed and looking for a job.  When they learn of the existence of some secret device taken from the moon crash, Decepticons and Autobots once again go to war with each other.  Patrick Dempsey plays a mega-rich Decepticon ally  Most of the soldiers are back from the previous movie.  Sam spends half the movie trying to get someone to let him join in the fray.  The biggest loser in this movie: Chicago, which gets pretty much trashed in the climactic battle.

My two cents: I guess the Transformers just don’t do it for me anymore.  The bright spot for me was Leonard Nimoy voicing a new (to us) Autobot: Sentinel Prime.  Some of the background was interesting, as well as tie-ins to recent world history.  The battles were fairly good . . . but nothing really grabbed me.  This time around, I found the Sam character to be more annoying than anything else. I am thinking that maybe it is time to let the Autobots and Co. take a break.

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