Transformer Dark of the Moon: please stop spoiling Transformer name....

Michael Bay is obviously laughing on his way to the bank. This is definitely one movie that even if you love it or hate it, you will still watch it. Rotten Tomatoes website and The Star newspaper both rated it very low. It should be a warning, yet I still insisted to watch it.

Transformer 3: Dark of the Moon. They are still cashing on the franchise. After the first 2 movies, I had learnt my lesson, not to pay to watch it again. No, I did not buy the pirated pasar malam version. Since I had free tickets, might as well watch it. Since it is supposedly THE summer movie of this year.

Story is simple. And typically full of holes that made the local government building developer look down in shame (our building is full of leaks anyway). Autobots (the good robot) found ancient spaceship in moon and rescue an old leaser, Sentinel Prime. (spoiler alert) He betray the good guys and then collect some device to build a huge transporter to transport Cybertron to earth. He plan to enslave all humankind and be the master.. blah, blah, blah. Autobots fight back and won the battle. The end.

The good things: the action is way better than the past 2 movies. While in the past, the action just seems to be flashes of lights to induce seizure, the action this time is more define, and really looks like robots fighting.

The bad things: now this is a long list.

The girl is just an added character there as a vase. If you imagine her as a vase, you can see Sam is carrying her around while dodging fires, running etc. I dont blame her acting skill, her role required none.

The story: recycled, predictable, except for the part where Sentinel Prime betray the good guys.

The robot design: I had to complain this. I really hate what they did to the robots. They are supposedly to be robots. ROBOTS!!! clean, mechanical being. Here, they are design more like mechanical organic being. Think all the aliens in the past few invasion movies. Even District 9 alien look like the Decepticons.

The action: they really humanize the robots. Fine. Then they had the good guys kill like bad guys. No mercy. Even when Megatron call for truce, Prime went on to MURDER him. Then he went over to MURDER Sentinel. Come on, he is suppose to be the good guys.

The accuracy: lets not come to this side. They basically tore the whole franchise apart.

Copycat: I would not say so though. But with so many invasion movies around, they do look the same to each other, dont you think so? The closest is Battle LA, which the finale is for them to shoot down a small item (cant remember what though)

In the end, do I enjoy the show? 2 half hour seems so long. However, when I forget that this is Transformer, but just another action movie, I sort of look past the flaws and begin to enjoy bit and pieces of the show.

ratings: 2 poink!

comments: IF they dont say this is Transformer, but just another alien vs alien movie with human running here and there, probably this would be a much better movie.