Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Now showing at Rave, Quality 16, Brighton
Review by Jeff Meyers of the Metro Times
Grade: C-

Let’s take a minute to talk about the moral landscape that movies communicate, OK? Yes, Michael Bay produces big, loud, energetic, stupid movies. And, yes, most audiences know what they’re getting into when they buy a $10 ticket. The explosions will be impressive, the women will be hot, the special effects will be the best that money can buy, the comedy will be feeble, and the storytelling will be a witless and convoluted jumble of clichés and disposable characters. The overriding mantra of any Bay movie is that more is always more.

But, as was the case in the previous "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," this third installment trades in casual racism, sexism and murder, as well as an obsessive fetishization of war — all under the guise that it’s just silly robot-bashing fun.

Read the full review here