This post contains spoilers. But if haven’t watch it until now then you probably don’t care anyway. And if you cared and still want to watch it, stop reading now.

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You have been warned and you proceed at your own risk!

Watched this movie on a weekend some time back with Angel. Dark of the Moon is the third in the Transformer movie series and in my opinion it is much better than the previous sequel even though Megan Fox has been dropped from the movie. After all it doesn’t make the movie any less entertaining without that eye candy. It’s all about the giant robots and the animation anyway. Regardless, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is a good replacement though I personally wouldn’t care who took that position as long as she’s not some fugly, screaming b*tch.

There are some marked improvements in this movie, simply because some of the robot combat scenes are now very much clearer. Unlike the previous two movies where the viewer would have no clue most of the time who is fighting and how they got destroyed, it appeared to have been deliberately slowed down to let us view the robot action without sacrificing the fluidity.

If you just watch it for pure entertainment, I would say it is worth the money you paid for the ticket – especially in 3D. But if you watch it for the plot then well, don’t think too much about some of the obvious flaws in the storyline which I am going to talk about.

First of all, Megatron. We recalled from the previous movie that part of his head was smashed and that is retained this round. That goes to say that this would be a continuation from the two previous movie and my best friend raised a good point over dinner some time ago. He said that in the first movie they found Megatron frozen in some Arctic place By Witwicky’s grandfather (which is at least 100 years ago) and it was subsequently shipped to Hoover Dam to be kept frozen and immobile.

That means Megatron would be out of action as Decepticon leader for almost 100 years. If that is the case, who then is in charge of the operation to trick the humans into leading the Autobots to find Sentinel Prime when right in the beginning the Decepticons were looking for both their leader and the AllSpark? Who has enough clout among the Decepticons to lead in Megatron’s absence? If Megatron told one of its subordinates to plan this, how the hell did it know before it got frozen to tell them to work on misleading the American and Soviet space programs when back then didn’t even exist?

Talking about which, in “The Fallen” they were attempting to recover the leadership matrix to revive Optimus Prime. Now, the AllSpark itself can turn anything into a Transformer but it can’t revive Optimus Prime? And the best part is that in this movie Optimus wanted to return the leadership matrix to Sentinel Prime as if it received the change of command from Sentinel Prime!

Confusing, isn’t it? Obviously someone didn’t really think through the damned script.

Next, the bad science. 2012 isn’t the only movie that’s guilty of that. Consider this, we all know that the gravitational pull of the moon is what caused the tides on Earth. If the moon is a lot closer, the tides will be a lot more devastating on our shorelines than what they are now. Now imagine moving something the size of Cybertron into orbit. Without even considering how it is going to affect the planetary dynamics between the Earth and the Moon, the gravitational pull of Cybertron – had Sentinel Prime succeed in bringing it through the space bridge – would have been devastating to the Earth. I can’t imagine what happens during high tide to coastal areas not to mention what Cybertron’s gravity might do the the structure of our planet.

For those who aren’t aware, there’s something called the Roche Limit – something that’s like “safety distance” between celestial bodies. In short, and if they are too close to one another it would mean the destruction of the smaller counterpart. So, moving Cybertron into orbit and turning the human race into a slave force is the most harebrained idea in the universe because in the end the Earth may no longer be suitable for human habitation and the entire delicate balance between the Earth, the moon and the sun is disrupted in ways unimaginable. Fancy someone like Sentinel Prime – which at one part of the movie is referred to as the Einstein of their race – to think about something like this and imagine itself to be a “god”. It was with some great satisfaction when I watch it suffered a fate most deserving of such immense stupidity.

All things being said, it is still an enjoyable movie. After all, we go to movies not to become scientists or philosophers but merely to be entertained. Furthermore, some times it is the company that matters.