Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Review by Pete Roche

Pyromaniac director Michael Bay is now three entries deep in the movie franchise based on the Hasbro toy line, and his explosive M.O. hasn’t changed a bit. 

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON finds the noble Autobots racing the dastardly Decepticons for possession of a technology that would allow teleportation of Cybertron itself into Earth’s atmosphere.  Megatron (Hugo  Weaving) and his villainous vehicles plan to enslave humanity to rebuild their dying home world—but not if Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) can help it.  Sadly, Megatron is given short shrift again, playing second fiddle to other decidedly cooler baddies like Shockwave (whose mechanical DUNE worm literally chews up scenery by the city block) and murderous pterodactyl Laserbeak.