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Seen in Real D 3D @ Hoyts, Broad­way, Aus­tralia
*Cin­e­ma:* 6
With Bar­bara, Cather­ine, Aman­da & Michelle
*Tick­et Price:* $19.00 + $1.00 for the 3D glass­es.
*Worth it?* Very pret­ty, but no sub­stance.

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This is pos­si­bly Pixar’s best movie ever. Its a close call between this and Wall•E.
These com­put­er gen­er­at­ed 3D movies make amaz­ing use of the mod­ern 3D pro­jec­tion sys­tems. But even if you can’t see it in 3D, see it any­way.
Defi­ant­ly a big screen ‘at the movies’ expe­ri­ence.
Seen in Real D 3D @ Hoyts, Enter­tain­ment Quar­ter, Moore Park, Aus­tralia
*Cin­e­ma:* 7
*Tick­et Price:* $20
*Worth it?* Yes yes yes, both time and mon­ey very well spent.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

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*In brief:* This is a steam­ing pile of robot turd! Don’t both­er ever watch­ing it, **ever**!
**SPOILER ALERT**
*In detail:* I have to con­grat­u­late direc­tor Michael Bay on tak­ing the amaz­ing­ly brave choice to real­ly push the ‘spe­cial effect’ genre of film to new lows, and pos­si­bly in the process hav­ing cre­at­ed a brand new genre of film: **PLOTLESS**
This has to be the first film I have ever seen were 100% of the plot hap­pens off screen and you are just expect­ed to accept what it hap­pen­ing and not wor­ry about the details. The main char­ac­ter Sam (Shia LaBeouf) even ques­tions this at one point in a failed attempt to be post-mod­ern about it.
They do at a lot of cool new stuff, so sure­ly that is enough to keep a fan inter­est­ed? Well… no.
— Shiny new auto­bot ladies! Yah, some female char­ac­ters. That get maybe two lines of dia­log and don’t get give names and are often absent form the group shots of the good-guys.
— Trans­form­ers that can look human? WTF? Okay, sure­ly they would­n’t add some­thing like that to the movie with­out giv­ing up some back­ground and expla­na­tion? Nope, noth­ing. We ass-ume she is a decep­ti­con, but only because she is act­ing kin­da ‘bad’. Maybe she is just real­ly horny? We nev­er see her talk to any oth­er robot at all, and none of the oth­ers ever act as if they even knew she was there.
— Cybertron, home world of the trans­form­ers. Yay, at last. Odd that it only seems to take a few min­utes to get there, but at least we are there. Sure­ly they will show us some inter­est­ing stuff here and expand on the char­ac­ters, the war between the trans­form­ers. Or per­haps instead of that just at a new bad­der bay-guy and show some still born trans­former babies.
— Babies? What the what? Wow, I did­n’t know that’s how new trans­form­ers are made, this will sure­ly be an impor­tant part of the sto­ry. Or maybe just a bad rip off from Van Hels­ing.
— Robots have skele­tons? Yeap, if you grab one by the tail and pull hard enough you can pull its whole skele­ton out. Wow, that’s handy to know. But how about we hide that in a fast panned, motion blurred, two sec­ond shot.
So what is this movie all about? Two things. Fart­ing and bol­locks! No real­ly, I mean it.
Fart­ing robots and robot balls?
Last piece of the all-spark?
Giant pow­er­ful robots, stand­ing around doing noth­ing, wait­ing for orders from humans?
Pow­er-rangers ‘oh, i have a bet­ter weapon that i’ve nev­er used before’?

Begin­ning. Mid­dle. End. Facts. Details. Con­dense. Plot. Tell it.

–Sim­mons demands more coher­ent expo­si­tion from Jet­fire.
Seen @ Read­ing Cin­e­ma, Mar­ket City
*Tick­et Price:* $10