The midtown-Manhattan crowd — real people, not movie reviewers, except
for this one — stood patiently in line for a 12:15 a.m. screening of
Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the third in Michael Bay’s
ear-, eye- and block-buster series based on the line of Hasbro robot
toys. When the feature began, a half hour late, the audience showed its
fondness for the material by saluting each appearance of the friendly
yellow car-bot Bumblebee, not with rowdy shouts but with courteous
applause, as if after a sharp volley at Wimbledon. A few whoops greeted
the 3-D IMAX leveling of Chicago. And when the movie ended, about an
hour before dawn, the admirers let out a few decorous cheers. They
sounded less like red-meat fanboys than connoisseurs at a wine tasting.
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