Josh Duhamel says “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” will be “more human”

Optimus Prime in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."

From Friday’s Summer Movie Preview at NewsOK:

Michael Bay’s third big-screen, big-robots adventure “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” will bring more bangs than a hundred fireworks displays to the Fourth of July holiday. But the three-quel also comes with promises from Bay and the cast to bring more humanity to the franchise than did 2009′s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” which did boffo box office despite a story critics felt was less than meets the eye.

Bay “was very mindful in this third one to make sure that it was really clear and concise and more human,” star Josh

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Duhamel said in a recent phone interview.

Duhamel returns for the third time as Lt. Col. William Lennox in “Dark of the Moon.”

“There’s real drama going on,” Duhamel said. “It’s not just a mishmash of robots fighting each other. This one actually has, there’s reasons for everything that happens. And I think it makes for a much more compelling story.”

Read the entire 2011 summer movie preview at BAM’s Blog.

- Matt Price