![]() ![]() ![]() Taking place two years after the Battle of Egypt, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Sam Witwicky must lead the Autobots in one final stand against Megatron and the Decepticons as they battle to possess powerful technology abandoned on the Moon, in order to restore Cybertron on Earth. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, Julie White, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand. The film is directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger. The film is the third installment in the Transformers film series and the sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009). Transformers: Dark of the Moon is streaming on Netflix.Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. But while watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon you’ll almost certainly have one reaction: You won’t be able to believe this movie exists. Just when you think the bad taste of sullying our memory of the moon landing can’t get worse, Transformers owns it by getting Aldrin to appear.ĭoes the involvement of Frances McDormand, Leonard Nimoy, or Buzz Aldrin legitimatize the film? Do they elevate the material to a point beyond that of an over-the-top Michael Bay movie? No, absolutely not. In an attempt to own its absurd premise, the film also boasts a cameo from none other than Buzz Aldrin. ![]() Veteran Transformers voice actor Peter Cullen is on fire as Optimus Prime, but even if you’re not sold on Nimoy versus Cullen there’s one more trick Dark of the Moon has up its sleeve. What makes the stacked cast of Dark of the Moon so fun is that you can actually just put it on in the background and listen. In 1987, Nimoy voiced the villainous Galvatron, a reincarnated Megatron, briefly proving that, like Mark Hamill, Nimoy had an acting range that included cartoon villains. For ‘80s kids, the casting of Nimoy as a Transformers villain is even more meta than Marky Mark appearing in the subsequent sequel, Age of Extinction. ![]()
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