“Oppressive but never overwrought, the movie takes us deep into pop madness.”

“The survivors have made it a priority – as they have in so many post-apocalyptic action flicks – to store up provisions of mascara and hair dye.

“Director Doug Liman is after something ambitious here…

Now this is my Transformers – an action extravaganza with all the visual goods, plenty of wit and even something of a conscience. With a combination of star power and serious dedication, Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, a weapons designer who tinkers and toys and one day builds a robotic armored suit. At first

Writer-director Andrew Adamson must have been emboldened by the unequivocal success of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for this is a far more specific exploration of C.S. Lewis’ Christian themes. Prince Caspian, in which Narnia is in the hands of cruel humans and the heroic lion Aslan is nowhere

“…sort of like watching Lord of the Rings through a smudged television screen.

“…rescues the Godzilla genre from the realm of kitsch.

“Etel … has a wonderful face for the movies – it’s as shiny as a kid’s could be, yet also somehow tinged with darkness, as if he’s busy processing adult concerns.

“…about as anti-God as The Chronicles of Narnia.

“The nefarious company he works for has etched a bar code tattoo on the back of his bald head, making him as easy to track as a tomato at Dominick’s.