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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third installment of the Transformers film trilogy and was released on June 29, 2011.
Synopsis
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The movie opens, telling the story of the war that the Transformers fought on their home planet of Cybertron, and also how Neil Armstrong finds the legendary Autobot spaceship, the Ark, on the Moon, which has crash-landed there with a secret and very important load: Hundreds of Pillars, which are to be used to open a Space Bridge.
Having been dumped by Mikaela Banes Sam has met another girl, Carly Spencer, on his visit in the White House, Where he was awarded a medal for helping to save the world twice. Sam falls in love with Carly, and they move in together. He tries hard to find a new job, so Carly helps him, giving him an opportunity to work under her own boss, Dylan. On the first day of his job, Sam meets his co-worker, Jerry Wang, who tells him about the Decepticons plan. Wang returns to his office, where his computer screen transforms into Laserbeak. He is thrown out through the window, and dies.
Sam then meets up with former Sector 7 (now 8) agent, Seymour Simmons. They work together along with Simmons' new assistant to try and to figure out what the Decepticons' next move will be. They meet up with some ex-cosmonauts who provide them with more info about the moon and reveal that some people are working for the Decepticons, including Dylan who later takes Carly hostage.
Sam has a fight with Carly about responsibility and safety, but he says he needs to help save the world and she drives off.
Realising that humanity has held a secret about their race for a long time, the Autobots travel to the Moon and find a few of the Pillars and the pilot of the spaceship, Sentinel Prime, the Prime before Optimus, and the former leader of the Autobots. They bring the Pillars and Sentinel back to Earth, resurrecting him with the Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus now carries in his chest. The Autobots then learn of the Decepticons' plans as they see old images of the surface of the Moon. Something on the images, believed by the humans to be markings made by vehicles, are in fact all the pillars. In over 50 years the Decepticons have planned to use the pillars to bring back their home world. It turns out that Sentinel is a traitor. He had made a deal with Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons, being forced to bring him the Pillars. Sentinel blows up the interior of the N.E.S.T. base and starts killing humans, and then Ironhide. He then flees, meeting Megatron and giving him the last remaining pillars, Sentinel then uses them to transport an army of Decepticons and Cybertronian spaceships hidden in the Moon to Earth.
The Autobots are blamed for all of this and are to travel away from Earth with a specially designed space shuttle, but Starscream takes it down from space before it has time to escape Earth's atmosphere.
The Decepticons attack the city of Chicago. They seal off the entire city and prevent any aircraft or UAVs from getting anywhere near the city. N.E.S.T. tries to infiltrate the city but their drones are continuously shot down. Sam, Epps and his N.E.S.T. buddies try to enter the city on foot but they are attacked by a Decepticon piloting a small ship. Just as the fighter is about to deliver the final shot the Autobots appear and intervene, rescuing them from the Decepticon. Optimus explains that they in fact never were aboard the shuttle, but rather in the first booster that detached from the shuttle. Sam asks Bumblebee if he can fly the ship, and he isn't too sure of himself, but after some time, he gets the hang of it. They fly off to Dylan's apartment and save Carly from him. Meanwhile the Autobots are fighting back the Decepticons and Sentinel Prime, who have placed the pillars all over the world, releasing them, starting the process of Cybertron’s teleportation to Earth. Cybertron then appears in the atmosphere.
The two Autobots, Wheelie and Brains sabotage the largest of the dropships, sending it crashing down into the water below. On top of a building in Chicago, Sentinel throws off Megatron, telling him that he wanted his home world back, but Megatron won't rule it. Sam manages to the control pillar near the streets, but he is attacked by Dylan who tries to stop him. Sam throws Dylan into the pillar, killing him in a burst of a electricity. Bumblebee destroys the pillar by jumping into it and smashing it to pieces in the process, sending Cybertron back through the Space Bridge in thousands of pieces. Carly finds Megatron sitting up a wall, and she starts telling him how he'll be under Sentinel's control if he doesn't rise up to where he believes he should be, ready to take over control of Cybertron. Optimus appears, attacking Sentinel, but loses his right arm in the fight. Soon, Megatron saves Optimus by shooting Sentinel in the back, believing Carly's tactful mind game. Megatron has Sentinel on the verge of death when he asks Optimus "What would you be without me?" To which Optimus replies, "Time to find out" and an axe to the face. Optimus rips off Megatron's head and slams it to the ground, revealing the large slice in the middle of it. He then turns to Sentinel and disregards all of his pleas for mercy with the claim that Sentinel hadn't betrayed him or the Autobots, but rather himself. With that, he fires Sentinel once in the back and Sentinel turns towards the camera, then he fires the kill shot to Sentinel's chest.
The movie ends with the Autobots accepting that they might never return to Cybertron, and accepting Earth as their new home.
Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
Sentinal Prime: You must understand Oprimus. I had to betray you just to save our kind.
Optimus Prime:No, you didn't betray me. You betrayed yourself! (shoots Sentinel twice with Megatron's blaster, killing him)
Errors
- Why didn't NEST go underwater just like Navy SEAL? If the NEST soldiers aren't good at diving, at least they can get an underwater vehicle to ship them into the city. Availability may be an issue but still remains unclear in media.
- Sentinel Prime can speak English right after being revived?
- In the novelization, it is explained that, through Optimus already knowing the language, this knowledge was transferred to Sentinel through the Matrix which is used to revived him.
- When Laserbeak is killing a human inside a white limosine, his wing passed through a small tree by a CGI mistake.
- Sam was put on a "list" by the FBI, and the record stays even though he got a medal from the president.
- Wouldn't it be much more efficient to have Transformers rebuilding Cybertron instead of humans?
- Sentinel Prime claims to use humans to rebuild the planet. However, after arriving Chicago, they start a massacre on the civilian populous. While there are possible answers of various likelyhood, the inconsistency is unexplained.
- Sam's fight with Starscream leaves several questions. Why did Sam not just take off his equipment when he is swung by Starscream? With the violence of his motion, how did Sam avoid broken limbs?
- Why doesn't Optimus Prime just use his blade to cut off the cables when he is tangled?
- Carly's clothes are too clean after the final battle. Better
- Where did NEST get the bomb sticks from? Que only gave those to Epps' team and he was captured and killed before he could give out any more. Eeps may have passed them over or they might already have been in possession but again the issue is completely unexplored on screen leaving an inconsistency in question.
Continuity errors
- In the first movie, Megatron travels to Earth in search of the All Spark. However, in this film, it is mentioned that Earth is the rendezvous point for him and Sentinel Prime. This is confounded by the fact that no Transformers in the first film seem to have knowledge of Earth up to this point.
- Even if they retrieve the All Spark, they can simply restore it on Cybertron and revive the planet instead of enslaving humans to rebuild the planet.
- In 1963, the Decepticons on Moon started to move energon pillars out of the Ark. However, Megatron, who arrived Earth ten thousand year ago, woke up in 2000s. So who gave the order to take energon pillars out of the Ark? Especially confusing as in DOTM this seems to be a long standing plan to which other Decepticon Leadership such as Starscream have been kept in the dark as to the disposition of a large portion of their own troops.
- Megatron and Sentinel Prime's deal should be secret between them. A possible reason is that Megatron has told all or part of the deal to his lieutenant, who later ordered Decepticons go to the Moon.
- Or simply the Decepticons found the Ark and decided to steal the pillars.
- For a 'secret' deal between Sentinel and Megatron, an aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawful lot of troops sure seem to know about it. Decepticons must have some pretty impressive discipline if not a single troop, message, or other hint of this plan is leaked by anyone in 50 years, if not 10,000 depending on your theory.
- So, a bunch of the Decepticons just stay on the moon instead of coming to Earth to support their leader in the last two battles when such force would be equally decisive? This is especially confusing since the Decepticons have travelled across whole star systems to arrive at Earth then wait right next door for a transporter.
Not actually an error
- Why did the Decepticons try and destroy the Ark in the beginning of the movie if they intended on using it to rebuild Cybertron?
- Not every Decepticon knows that Sentinel Prime has compromised with Megatron.
- One of the characters had expressed disapproval of sending away "9 Autobots" on a spaceship to leave the Earth. Some may argue there are 11 Autobots, including two former Decepticons: Wheelie and Brains.
- Agent Simmons is thrown by a Dread but only got a broken leg.
Notes
- Optimus Prime continues his strange head fetish by ripping of Megatron's head.
- Because the film at the last minute changed names, Mirage was referred to Dino (pronounced Dee-no) while Wheeljack was referred to Q in the film.
- Sentinel Prime is the primary antagonist, Megatron is the secondary antagonist for the most part, but a crucial plot twist has him rescuing Optimus Prime's life and helps him fight Sentinel Prime, with Dylan as the tertiary antagonist.
- Optimus Prime was using a new equipment similar Jetfire's parts from Revenge of the Fallen while battling with the Decepticons.
- Shockwave was originally intend to be the main antagonist in the early development as mentioned by Michael Bay in USA Today.[citation needed] However, Shockwave only received partial screen time like every Decepticon and was only a supporting character who played a minor role.
- This misinformation was obviously intentional so as to leave viewers utterly surprised to learn of the real main antagonist.
- Megatron and Starscream had less screen time than in Revenge of the Fallen.
- Deaths:
- Alexi Voshkod, Jerry Wang and the other human collaborators by Laserbeak
- Several NEST soldiers by Starscream
- Megatron, Shockwave, Sentinel Prime, Driller and several other Decepticons by Optimus Prime
- Ironhide by Sentinel Prime
- The Dreads by Dino and Ironhide
- Starscream and Dylan Gould by Sam Witwicky
- Soundwave and several Decepticon protoforms by Bumblebee
- Barricade by NEST
- Laserbeak by Sam Witwicky and Bumblebee
- Que by Soundwave
- Every other Decepticon by NEST and other Autobots
- Decapitation seems to be a favored method of killing by the Autobots: Soundwave, Starscream, Laserbeak and Megatron are all decapitated.
- Optimus kills Megatron by slamming his battle-axe into his head, ripping it off along with his spine. However in both the junior Novel and movie adaptation, Megatron offers a truce and Prime accepts it while in the movie Optimus refuses it. Megatron then leaves with the remaining Decepticons to Cybertron, which isn't destroyed in the novels.
- While both Roadbuster and Leadfoot spoke in Cockney accents, Topspin doesn't speak at all.
- The fate of Wheelie and Brains is untold in the film but is presumed they both survive the crash.
- Dylan states that he "inherited" the job of working with the Decepticons when his father died.
- The Wreckers are shown to be more brutal killers than Optimus, Ironhide, Bumblebee, and Sideswipe all combined as shown when they ripped apart a Decepticon fighter pilot in pieces alive and played with his body parts. Leadfoot is shown playing and chewing on his head.
- Mearing has some of Theodore Galloway's personalty traits, as both believe that the Autobots are too dangerous.
Transformers references
- The whole second part of the plot is a references to the The Transformers first season finale "The Ultimate Doom".
- This time, the Decepticons have a human helper, too.
- The Ark is a reference to the ship with the same name in the Generation One.
- There is a scene featuring the Ark that referencing the classic view of the Ark in The Transformers.
- The brand of Sam's car is Datsun, which produced the Datsun Fairlady Z (280 ZX), the vehicle mode for Prowl, Bluestreak, and Smokescreen.
- This isn't the first time the Autobots were forced by the Decepticons to ride a ship to leave the Earth which the Decepticons secretly planned to destroy with the Autobots inside but the Autobots used an illusion to trick the Decepticons to return for battle.
- Leonard Nimoy, who voiced Galvatron in The Transformers: The Movie, once more acts as an antagonist.
- The Cosmic Rust is used as a weapon by Sentinel Prime.
- Megatron destroyed Abraham Lincoln's statue out of its chair so he could sit there, much like his Generation One counterpart did in the episode "Atlantis, Arise!".
- He also does this if you complete the game as the Decepticons in the video game for the first live action movie.
- Near the end of the final battle, Bumblebee transforms with the classic transforming sound.
- Like his Generation One counterpart, Sentinel Prime is the predecessor of Optimus Prime.
- Sentinel Prime got killed off just like his Generation One counterpart.
Real-world references
- When Brains and Wheelie are watching Star Trek: The Original Series, the screen features Mr. Spock, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy — who voices Sentinel Prime. They comment that it is "the one where Spock loses it", possibly a subtle nod to Sentinel's role in the movie.
- Sentinel Prime says "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." The voice actor said the same line in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as Mr. Spock. However in that movie, Nimoy's character dies a hero.
- When Bumblebee says his goodbyes to Sam, he uses a clip of Spock, saying "I will always be your friend.", another line from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- Dutch and his girlfriend's name, "India", is a references to Dutch India.
- The final battle taking place on a bridge, with the protagonist's arm being cut off might be a reference to the final showdown of the 1980 film Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
- The final battle featuring blade battle with the line "There can be only one" may be a reference to the 1986 film Highlander.
- Que's name may be a reference to Mr. Q from James Bond novels and films. Que also gives weapons to NEST soldiers while explaining the advantages and abilities for the weapons much like Q does for James Bond.
- The inside of the Ark resembles the Space Jockey set piece from the 1979 film Alien.
Trivia
- The filming had dealt with many accidents and disasters, such as Bumblebee Camaro totalled by a police vehicle and an extra's horrible accident after which the filmmakers were sued. Obviously, Someone didn't want the film to be finished. Curse you, Shockwave!
They spent too much time on Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and not the Transformers or plot!