Transformers: Dark of the Moon: The Catastrophic Ecstasy

Thought for long about an apt caption for the 3^rd edition of the Transformers, the confusion of judging this motion picture has came out of the caption.

Only a mentally psychic person would underestimate the efforts taken by the world’s greatest animators working for this movie, the robotic appearance of Optimus Prime, Bumblebie, and Megatron are flesh and blood, which is the reason that drove me to watch this film either by hook or by crook.

Flattered by the personifications and intricacies in making of these robots in first 2 editions, I made a firm will of watching the third in the theatre that too in 3D. The trailers of the film were projecting the next big thing post cinematic events like Avatar, Inception, and LOTR trilogy.

Transformers was never the best in terms of its story but this time its hunger for intricacies have consumed him, turning this gigantic visual into a catastrophe.  As a diehard fan of Michael Bay (Pearl Harbour, Armageddon, Transformers) expectations from the third edition were high, but in the end what we get is more robots, that too with no life in them.  Michael Bay is known for bringing life and emotions in the nonliving, the best example for this could be the scene in the first edition where auto robots hide in the house of Sam with panache, those moments are missing here.

The Dark of the Moon miserable fails on the emotional quotient which was the speciality in first 2 editions; there are many missing links in the apocalyptic fight at the climax too.  How do so many spaceships having the robots supporting Decepticons get defeated so miraculously, that they don’t even engage in fight against the human‘s best.  The climatic battles between the evil and good citizens of Cybertron on Earth were believable in first two editions, this time it looks like a near impossible battle was won at the blink of the eye, as if there was a delete button with the audience to skip the colossal torture in 3D. The only exception was the fabulous serpent destroying a glass building like a python kills its prey, everything else looked plastic.

At last when everything from story to ineffective 3D effect for this plastic world turns into the catastrophe, Sam’s love for his robots is diminishing yet the personifications of this magnanimous robots instigate , and bribe us to complete this colossal disaster

Some more snaps from the movie which made me to hold my breath but could not strangulate me.