Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon opened in eye-catching fashion, with Optimus Prime - voiced by the great and prolific voice-actor Peter Cullen - narrating the ending days of the Autobot-Decepticon war on their planet Cybertron. It was a wonderfully-rendered CGI masterpiece; a mechanically-detailed home-world under fire from a myriad of turrets and other, more alien weaponry. The Autobots had a "last-hope" ship, carrying a secret cargo (the space pillars, as we'll learn later) which was meant to make it elsewhere, away from the carnage wrought by the winning side - the Decepticons. Unfortunately, a spiraling weapon straight out of science-fiction, launched by the Decepticons after the ship, would damage it severely, causing it to crash-land onto Earth's moon after untold years through space. Humans monitored the crash with...and this is where things start to go awry with the story. Humans hadn't yet been to the moon, so how could they detect anything crashing on the moon? Asteroids and meteors crash there all the time, as it is. With no monitoring equipment, there's no way they would know this information!

Nonetheless, we excuse that foible to get on with Dark of the Moon. The journey ties in to the Space Program's historic first-landing of a man on the moon, at which point they discover Sentinel Prime's forlorn body inside an alien ship from Cybertron. The information is reported to Control back on earth, and our human story commences.

The next scene introduces the enviable body of the Megan Fox replacement, the model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who plays Sam's (reprised by actor Shia Labeouf) new girlfriend Carly. We learn a bit about Sam's life and his new-found, rather unlikable hero-complex. He is jobless after college, and wishes the world appreciates him more than the paid-for "https://twitter.com/Podi_19/status/1735269552362279006?s=20 Ivy League tuition and presidential award he received for his part in the previous Transformers. They banter in a few scenes meant to be cute and informative while Sam awaits the arrival of his parents; but, the domestic scenes leave us wondering if there will be enough screen time for the robots.

In comes Sam Witwicky's mother (played by actress Julie White), whose character in the movie may very well be plagued by Revenge of the Fallen's entirely overdone comedic role. It's rather unfortunate, because her humor isn't nearly as overdone as some might lead you to believe, it's just that the history of her character persists, and not to good effect. Although there weren't any more weed cookies and scenes of her tackling (assaulting) college Frisbee throwers, you get the feeling this was only because there weren't any around, not because her character was any more under control. At least her screen time was significantly reduced.








Christina Thomas is an avid Transformers fan, who enjoyed the anticipation for the release of Dark of the Moon more than the movie, itself. She devoted a large amount of time to constructing a website, Cybertron Transformers, for her nephews, who adore everything Optimus and Bumblebee.  Even though one nephew adored the movie for all the action, she couldn't help but write a less-than-stellar Transformers review.