Transformers v G.I. Joe is a 2011 American epic science fiction action film directed by , and it is based on the Transformers and G.I. Joe toy line. It is the eighth film in the Hasbro Cinematic Universe (HCU).
Exclusive early premieres in both select 3D and IMAX theaters took place on June 28, 2011, one night before worldwide release in 2D and 3D (including IMAX 3D) formats—each featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound. Metacritic characterized the reviews that it cataloged as "mixed or average", and the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus praised the special effects, action scenes, scores, 3D work, and the performances of Peter Cullen and Frank Welker while criticizing the runtime, storyline, performances, and screenplay. Transformers v G.I. Joe grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, and it is currently the 26th highest-grossing film of all time (the 4th-highest at the time of release), the second-highest-grossing film of 2011, and the tenth film to gross over $1 billion. Like the first film, it was nominated for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards.
Plot[]
Cast[]
Transformers[]
Autobots[]
Decepticons[]
Humans[]
G.I. Joe[]
Cobra[]
Supporting[]
Release[]
Theatrical[]
Transformers v G.I. Joe first premiered at the Moscow International Film Festival on June 23, 2011. Linkin Park performed a special outdoor concert in Red Square in Moscow on the same night in celebration of the event.[1] A wide release began on July 1, 2011.[3] It was announced in November 2010 that unlike Transformers: The War Within, no scenes in the film were shot with IMAX 3D cameras.[7]
Home media[]
During Hasbro Investor Day, it was announced that the DVD and Blu-ray Disc would be released in the fourth quarter of 2011.[8] The NTSC home release for the film was released on September 30, 2011,[9] with a Blu-ray 3D version of the film slated for release in "the coming months".[10][11] However, the first home release was criticized for the lack of bonus features.[12]
A Walmart exclusive edition of Transformers v G.I. Joe also was released on September 30, 2011.[13] The PAL DVD and Blu-ray Discs of Transformers v G.I. Joe was released on November 28, 2011.[14]
In North America, it sold 716,218 DVD units (equivalent of $13,565,169) in its first week, topping the weekly DVD chart.[15] Template:As of, it has sold 2,829,285 DVD units (equivalent of $48,058,979).[16] It also topped the Blu-ray charts on the same week and it has sold 2,381,657 Blu-ray units (earning $50,934,911) by October 23, 2011.[17] The Blu-ray 3D release of the film was released on January 31, 2012 in NTSC regions and on February 13, 2012 in PAL regions.[18]
Transformers v G.I. Joe was released on 4K UHD Blu-ray on October 30, 2017 in PAL regions and December 5, 2017 in NTSC regions.[19]
Reception[]
Box office[]
Worldwide[]
Transformers v G.I. Joe had grossed $552.3 million in North America, and $771.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.323 billion.[20] It is the fifth highest-grossing film of all time and the second highest-grossing film of 2011. Its worldwide opening weekend ($382.4 million) is the fourth-largest ever and the largest for Paramount.[21] It set an IMAX worldwide opening-weekend record with $23.1 million (first surpassed by Deathly Hallows – Part 2).[22] It reached $400 million (6 days), $500 million (9 days), $600 million (12 days) and $700 million (16 days) in record time, but lost all records to Deathly Hallows – Part 2.[23]
North America[]
The film opened in 4,088 theaters including a then-record total of 2,789 3-D locations. It made $5.5 million during Tuesday 9 p.m. showings, $8 million during midnight showings[24] and $37.7 million on its opening day (Wednesday)—including Tuesday showings. This was the sixth-best opening Wednesday.[25] However, all these figures were lower than Revenge of the Fallen.[26] On Thursday, it earned $21.5 million, falling 43%, an improvement from its predecessor's Wednesday-to-Thursday decline. It grossed $33.0 million on Friday totaling $97.8 million. Its 3-D share accounted for 60% of its gross, which was atypical due to the downturn in 3D attendance in North America. For its three-day opening weekend (Friday-to-Sunday), it grossed $97.9 million.[27] It achieved the third-largest opening weekend of 2011,[28] the fourth-largest opening weekend in July,[29] the fifth-largest opening weekend for a film not released on Friday[30] and the second-largest five-day gross for a film opening on Wednesday.[20] It set records for the 3-day ($97.9 million)[31] and 4-day ($115.9 million) Independence Day weekend, surpassing Spider-Man 2Template:'s record in both cases ($88.2 million and $115.8 million, respectively). It retained first place on its second weekend, dropping 52% to $47.1 million.[32] Closing on October 13, 2011 with $352.4 million, it is the second-highest-grossing film of 2011[33] and the second-highest-grossing film in the franchise.[34]
Outside North America[]
The film grossed $32.5 million on its opening day, pacing 38% ahead of its predecessor. Including some early Tuesday previews, it earned $36.6 million in one-and-a-half days,[35] and by Thursday its international total reached $66 million.[36] By the end of its first weekend, it had earned $219.8 million, which stands as the fifth-largest opening weekend of all time overseas and the largest for Paramount.[37] Its foreign launch was 57% ahead of that of Revenge of the Fallen ($139.6 million). 70% of its grosses came from 3-D (a higher 3-D share than Pirates 4's 66%).[38] Don Harris, general manager of distribution for Paramount, commented on the results of Dark of the Moon: "If we hadn't chosen to debut the movie later in Japan and China, we probably would have had the all-time record."[39] The film topped the box office outside North America for two weekends in a row.[40]
In China, its highest-grossing market after North America, the film set records for an opening day with $15.9 million, a single day with $17.4 million (overtaken by Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons)[41] and an opening weekend with $46.8 million ($62.7 million with previews).[42] The latter was taken from Avatar ($42.0 million).[43] The opening weekend record, when including previews, was surpassed by Titanic 3D ($74.2 million).[44] Dark of the Moon ended its run with $167.95 million, marking the second-highest-grossing film of 2011 (after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2).[45] Besides China, it broke the opening-day record in Russia and South Korea;[35] the single-day record in Hong Kong;[46] and the opening-weekend record in South Korea,[47] Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, the UAE, the Philippines and Peru (the last three records were surpassed by Marvel's The Avengers).[38][48][49] Following China in total earnings were South Korea ($69.1 million) and Japan ($54.2 million).[50]
Critical response[]
Template:Anchor On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 35% based on reviews from 262 critics, with an average rating of 4.97/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Its special effects—and 3D shots—are undeniably impressive, but they aren't enough to fill up its loud, bloated running time, or mask its thin, indifferent script."[51] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 42 out of 100 based on 37 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[52] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[53][54]
Roger Ebert gave the film one out of four stars, criticizing its visuals, plot, characters, and dialogue.[55] Richard Roeper likewise panned the film, giving it a D and responded that "rarely has a movie had less of a soul and less interesting characters."[56] A.O. Scott in The New York Times wrote "I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?"[57]
Several critics felt that Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's performances were ineffective. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film 0 stars, the same rating that he had given to Revenge of the Fallen, and stated the two actors "couldn't be duller".[58] Tirdad Derakhshani of The Philadelphia Inquirer stated that LaBeouf "plays Witwicky as if he had a ferocious case of attention deficit disorder. After two films, his fidgeting isn't cute anymore."[59] James Berardinelli of ReelViews wrote that LaBeouf "has sunk to greater levels of incompetence here. It's hard to call his posturing and screaming 'acting'."[60] Jason Solomons of The Observer wrote "[W]e're first introduced to [Huntington-Whiteley] via a close-up of her bum, segueing straight from the film's opening sequence and titles on to the pert buttocks and underwear of our heroine", and that her English posh girl accent "renders her practically unintelligible when surrounded by American accents and falling masonry."[61] Much of the criticism towards Rosie Huntington-Whiteley compared her in an unfavorable light to Megan Fox. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post wrote that her "'acting' makes ... Megan Fox look like Meryl Streep in comparison."[62] Huntington-Whitely was later nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her performance, but lost to David Spade for Jack and Jill.[63]
For good or ill, Bay is the soul of a new machine, the poet of post-human cinema, the CEO of Hollywood's military-entertainment complex.
Steve Prokopy of Ain't It Cool News found the film to be better than the first two.[65] Jim Vejvoda of IGN gave the film a score of seven out of ten, also stating that it was the best of the franchise.[66] E! Online graded the film a B+ while noting if this film is truly the end of a trilogy, its main antagonists should have played more of a part.[67] Website Daily Bhaskar also praised the film, rating it three and a half out of five stars, citing it as an improvement on the previous film, and writing that it "gives fans something to cheer about."[68]
Many reviews praised the film's special effects and aggressive use of 3-D. After previewing a partial, unfinished cut of the film, Kofi Outlaw of Screen Rant declared that Bay had created the best 3-D experience since James Cameron's Avatar.[69] Neil Schneider of Meant to be Seen, a website focused on stereoscopic 3-D gaming and entertainment, remarked that "while Transformers: Dark of the Moon had the scrapings of a really good story, this 3-D movie was shot with a 2-D script." On the topic of 3-D, Schneider said "Transformers 3 was a mix of native stereoscopic 3-D camera capturing and 2-D/3-D conversion (as a 3-D tool), and most was done very well." He added, "At a minimum, Transformers 3 demonstrates that fast cutting sequences are indeed possible and practical in stereoscopic 3-D. More than that, it was a comfortable experience and helped exemplify great use of stereoscopic 3-D with live-action CGI and digital characters. That said, I think they still could have taken it much further."[70]
Charlie Jane Anders of Jezebel believed that some elements of the film were deliberate self-references to Michael Bay's own sense of under-appreciation after the backlash to the second film: "After a few hours of seeing Shia get dissed, overlooked and mistreated, the message becomes clear: Shia, as always, is a stand-in for Michael Bay. And Bay is showing us just what it felt like to deal with the ocean of Haterade—the snarking, the Razzie Award, the mean reviews—that Revenge of the Fallen unleashed." She went on to say that the film's frequent, often jarring shifts in tone were an intentional endorsement of Michael Bay's own filmmaking style. "Tone is for single-purpose machines. Consistency is for Decepticons. Michael Bay's ideal movie shifts from action movie to teen comedy to political drama with the same well-lubricated ease that his cars become men. By the time you've finished watching, you will speak Michael Bay's cinematic language."[71]
Accolades[]
| Award | Category | Recipients | Result | Template:Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 Teen Choice Awards | Choice Summer Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [72] |
| Choice Summer Movie Actor | Shia LaBeouf | Nominated | ||
| Choice Summer Movie Actress | Rosie Huntington-Whiteley | Nominated | ||
| 2011 Scream Awards | Best Science Fiction Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [73] |
| Best Cameo | Buzz Aldrin | Nominated | ||
| Holy Sh*t Scene of the Year (Escape From Collapsing Building) | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | ||
| Best 3D Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Won | ||
| Best F/X | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | ||
| 2012 People's Choice Awards | ||||
| Favorite Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [74] | |
| Favorite Action Movie | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | ||
| Favorite Action Movie Star | Shia LaBeouf | Nominated | ||
| 2011 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards | Obviously Worst Film | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Won | [75] |
| 2011 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards | Sequel or Remake That Shouldn't Have Been Made | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [76] |
| 2012 Annie Awards | ||||
| Animated Effects in a Live Action Production | Florent Andarra | Won | [citation needed] | |
| 2012 Golden Reel Awards | Music in a Feature Film | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [77] |
| Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | ||
| 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards | ||||
| Outstanding Performance By a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [citation needed] | |
| 2012 Visual Effects Society Awards | Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture | Scott Benza, Wayne Billheimer, Matthew E. Butler, Scott Farrar | Nominated | [78] |
| Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture | Chris Balog, Ben O'Brien, Amy Shepard, Jeff Sutherland | Nominated | ||
| Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Giles Hancock, John Hansen, Tom Martinek, Scott Younkin for "155 Wacker Drive" | Won | ||
| Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture | Tim Brakensiek, Kelvin Chu, David Fogler, Rene Garcia for "Driller" | Won | ||
| Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture | Michael Balog, Richard Bluff, Shawn Kelly, Jeff White | Nominated | ||
| 2012 Academy Awards | ||||
| Best Sound Editing | Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl | Nominated | [79] | |
| Best Sound Mixing | Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin | Nominated | ||
| Best Visual Effects | Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier | Nominated | ||
| 2012 Golden Raspberry Awards | ||||
| Worst Picture | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [80] | |
| Worst Director | Michael Bay | Nominated | ||
| Worst Supporting Actor | Patrick Dempsey | Nominated | ||
| Worst Supporting Actor | Ken Jeong | Nominated | ||
| Worst Supporting Actress | Rosie Huntington-Whiteley | Nominated | ||
| Worst Screenplay | Ehren Kruger | Nominated | ||
| Worst Screen Couple | Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley | Nominated | ||
| Worst Screen Ensemble | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | ||
| 2012 Saturn Awards | ||||
| Best Special Effects | Scott Benza, John Frazier, Matthew Butler, and Scott Farar | Nominated | [81] | |
| 2012 Empire Awards | ||||
| The Art of 3D Presented by RealD | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Nominated | [82] |
Sequels[]
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The fourth film in the Transformers film series, Age of Extinction, was released June 27, 2014. A fifth film, The Last Knight, was released on June 21, 2017, followed by a spin-off titled Bumblebee, released on December 21, 2018.
See also[]
- List of highest-grossing films
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