Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D: Reviewed
Warning. If you are planning to see this film at the cinema make sure you go to the loo first. It’s very very long, two hours 34 minutes to be precise. I don’t think that Michael Bay has ever heard the expression ‘less is more’.
To be fair, Bay isn’t known for his thought-provoking movies and storyline structures but I guess the film does just what it says on the tin. Anyone who has seen the South Park Imaginationland episodes will know that a Bay movie is very “Raaaar!” and “Eeeyowl!” So we can expect very loud explosions and things smashing into buildings and lines such as “You may lose faith in us but never in yourselves”
The film opens with a clever mixture of actors and live newsreel showing the space race from 1961 leading to the Apollo Moon landing in 1969 which apparently was all a huge cover-up to camouflage the real mission for Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin investigating the crash landing of a Cybertronian spacecraft which fled the Transformers home planet during a fierce battle between the good Autobots and the evil Decepticons (I knew it!). Can the Autobots reach the craft before their sworn enemies get the chance to discover its secret cargo and rule the Earth?
Our hero Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is back and works out the Decepticons plan and is helped by his new girlfriend, the very English Carly, played by newcomer Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. (This femme fatale is an ex-model who has very limited acting experience and it shows.)
It’s a shame there are too many repetitive fights and action sequences that go on far too long. When we do actually get to the final climatic battle it comes as a bit of a whimper rather than a Kapow!, particularly as we’ve just been exposed to 180 minutes of the same. There’s also a ridiculous scene where the live action gung-ho good guys are being thrown around a high-rise building that’s in the process of falling over that seems to go on for ever and Sam has not only one very close call but I'm hardly ther target audience. The two young guys in their 20s sitting next me nearly exploded with hysterical laughter at every corny quip and every time one of the regular characters appeared on screen.
However, I’m not sure exactly who the Transformer franchise is aimed at? I fondly remember the first film, the animated cartoon version Transformers the Movie (U) made in 1986 which was released a year before Ms Huntington Whiteley was born. The cartoon was shamelessly aimed at kids who had already bought into the Transformers toy craze. But, 25 years on, the latest film is now a 12A certificate because there are, and I quote, “prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction, and some sexuality and innuendo”.
South Park Imagination Land - News
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These guys have shown a knack for fantastic narrative writing on a large scale, evident in the regular multi-part episodes of South Park (such as Imaginationland and the 200 th episode Mohammed controversy), and the 1999 film based on the show.
A new park along the South Boston waterfront was my favorite. It was so because the price tag was $1 Billion. For the land. The park and any and all required infrastructure improvements would be, as they say, not included. The Red Sox brass putting out
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South Park: Imaginationland
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Cartman seemed to be staying true to character with his selection of code names for his team, such as "Blacky" for Token and "Faggot" for Butters.
The "ringleader" character is a bit of a cross between Willy Wonka and the Wizard of Oz. I loved how Butters asked if he was going to rape the kids and his response was "Um...uh...no." It's difficult to know how to answer such a question. Given Butters' history with sex (such as "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" or "The Fellowship of the Lord of the Rings"), it's not surprising that he asked the question. The "Imagination" song was so long and had such a horrific (lack of) melody that it reminded me a bit of synagogue services.
I tried to place all of the characters in Imaginationland. I got the following list: Count Chocula. The evil characters from Yellow Submarine . Astro Boy. Optimus Prime. Dick Tracy. A Smurf. Charlie Brown. Ronald McDonald. Raggedy Ann and Andy. Cinderella. Snarf from Thundercats. Red Riding Hood. A CareBear. That dragon with Sean Connery's voice from that movie (That is from my notes verbatim). Humpty Dumpty. Pan. The Flash. For those of you with DVRs, who did I miss?
I loved how they paid homage to Saving Private Ryan wouldn't be complete without some sort of real-world critique. This time it was about the lack of imagination of certain Hollywood directors and producers. They even paid a nice compliment to Mel Gibson (a far cry from "The Passion of the Jew"). Mel is nuts, but at least he knows basic story structure.
It wouldn't surprise me if the theme of this mutli-episode arc was the lack of imagination of terrorists. It seems to be going that way. However, Trey and Matt are good at dishing out surprises so I'm going to just watch next week and see where their imaginations take us. They're still on a roll with another great episode.
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There was a triloogy of "South Park" episodes once before. They're known as the Meteor Shower episodes because each shows what a major character was doing on the night of a meteor shower. One, "Cat Orgy," shows what Cartman was doing; the next, "Teo Guys Naked in a Hot Tub," shows what Stan was doing; and the last, "Jewbilee," shows what Kyle and Kenny were doing.
South Park Imagination Land - Bookshelf
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