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Transformers: Dark of the Moon (12A)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.


The critical consensus

A largely linear plot and some ingenious appropriation of 20th century history helps T3 correct most of T2’s deficiencies without really matching T1’s superior entertainment value and element of surprise.

***(*)(*)Neil Smith, Total Film, 26/06/2011

An improvement on Transformers 2, but then what isn’t? To paraphrase the Bard, it’s a tale, full of sound and fury and extremely stupid dialogue and nonsensical plotting and preposterous stunts and robots punching each other’s heads off, signifying nothing. Needless to say, it’s going to be huge.

**(*)(*)(*)Chris Hewitt, Empire Online, 29/06/2011

There’s nothing wrong with a dumb, fun movie now and then. It just depends how far you can dial down your brain function before the dark of the cinema allows a sensory overload so relentless that it’s as subtle as giving a five-year-old his first acid trip before setting him loose on a rollercoaster.

Michael MacLennan, STV, 29/06/2011

Whizz, bang, boom, snore. Same Bay, same shit.

Adam Woodward, Little White Lies, 29/06/2011

The story is insane, the dialogue could have been written by an alien, the comedy is horribly clunky – but hey, the special effects are a sight to see.

**(*)(*)(*)The Herald, 30/06/2011

There’s no critically sound way to defend Dark of the Moon as anything other than brayingly crass and soulless 3D spectacle with absurdly well-executed digital effects. There’s also no need: you can hate Bay’s job, but, on this occasion, he’s actually doing it.

***(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 30/06/2011

A graceless, grinding, exploding cacophony of computer-generated metal and noise.

Paul Greenwood, Evening Times, 30/06/2011

Well, no one could deny the bangs-per-buck factor of that final battle, but it's just so chaotic and dull and long.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30/06/2011

Toy Story 3, it ain't.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Chris Tookey, Daily Mail, 01/07/2011

Phew, it's over and--whisper it--it's not that bad.

***(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 01/07/2011

In which director Michael Bay perpetrates another junkyard fiasco that turns the volume up to 11 and the IQ to -1.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 01/07/2011

Bay has said Dark Of The Moon will be the last in the series. For the sake of eardrums - and brain cells - around the world, let's hope so.

**(*)(*)(*)Daily Record, 01/07/2011

Trouble is, it just goes on and on, to the point where it becomes impossible to distinguish who or what anyone is, why it's happening and why we should even care about what the outcome. It's war porn for kids and after stimulating the senses it eventually just numbs them.

**(*)(*)(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 02/07/2011

I'm not saying you should go to see it, but if you do want to watch a Transformers film, this is the first one that does what it's supposed to.

Nicholas Barber, The Independent on Sunday, 03/07/2011

I'd even go so far as to say that some of it is entertaining and thrilling. But are there any ideas here? Other than to make more than $1.5bn, what is the point of a Michael Bay movie?

Jason Solomons, The Observer, 03/07/2011


Features about Transformers: Dark of the Moon (12A)

Michael Bay hits back at 'insulting' Transformers critics

Josh Winning, Total Film, 27/06/2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (12A)

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General release. Check local listings for show times.

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