Review: 'Transformers' Is Another Loud Bruiser

citizen |

By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer

To his credit, Michael Bay does try to put more human touch into ``Transformers: Dark of the Moon,'' aiming to make up for the clattering mess of overgrown kitchen appliances that duked it out in the franchise's last installment.

In 3-D, too, so you get to wear those clunky glasses for the franchise's longest movie yet.

It really felt like people didn't matter in 2009's ``Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,'' a mega-blockbuster despite being little more than a turgid assemblage of computer-generated machine parts thrashing about.

``Dark of the Moon'' mostly is an expensive exercise in rubbernecking, the audience getting to watch colossal carnage and destruction from the safety of stadium seating.

It's a thin line between the idiotically incomprehensible ``Revenge of the Fallen'' and the merely incomprehensible of ``Dark of the Moon.''

``Transformers: Dark of the Moon,'' a Paramount Pictures release, is rated PG-13 for intense prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction, and for language, some sexuality and innuendo. Running time: 154 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Associated Press text, photo and/or graphic material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. Neither these AP Materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use. The AP will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing.

Latest Stories

Latest Podcast

STARR Community Services International, Inc.