Posted December 31, 2018
It's good.
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Ok, going into a bit more detail than that, This movie doesn't sport Michael Bay at its helm, in fact I don't think Michael Bay was anywhere near this movie other than the closing credits, and that alone makes it whole orders of magnitude better than all former Transformers movies, which I'll admit is a very low bar.
Well maybe I lie about Bay's dark claw not being present at all. There's a rather shoehorned inclusion of the military. And we all know how much Bay likes to fellate the army. However Travis Knight puts them in their proper place which is as ineffectual antagonists who are just sort of there instead of focusing the plot on them.
And that's Bumblebee's greatest strength. Travis Knight gets it, that if someone goes to see a movie about giant robots, they expect to see giant goddamned robots. Not some stupid romance between two absolutely boring human actors.
Two warnings before I finish. One; this movie falls entirely in a category that I call, nostalgia predators. That is they prey upon the viewer's nostalgia. And damn it if they didn't milk that 80's nostalgia hard, there's a lot of musical and pop culture references. Two, the movie is absolutely goofy and even silly. It's a movie about giant robots that turn into cars. Of course it'd be silly. But it's the right kind of silly, the sort that manages to be fun and even awesome.
My biggest gripe with it, is that Hasbro still decided to play it safe and keep it as a sort of prequel to Bayformers. Had it ibeen up to me, I would have deleted that one sequence that tied it to the horrible Bayformer movies and marched ahead as its own continuity.
So basically Bumblebee is a big fun goofy action flick about giant robots punching the living daylights out of each other with tons of 80's nostalgia, directed by someone who isn't a tasteless explosion-obsessed hack.
And that's awesome.
.
.
.
Ok, going into a bit more detail than that, This movie doesn't sport Michael Bay at its helm, in fact I don't think Michael Bay was anywhere near this movie other than the closing credits, and that alone makes it whole orders of magnitude better than all former Transformers movies, which I'll admit is a very low bar.
Well maybe I lie about Bay's dark claw not being present at all. There's a rather shoehorned inclusion of the military. And we all know how much Bay likes to fellate the army. However Travis Knight puts them in their proper place which is as ineffectual antagonists who are just sort of there instead of focusing the plot on them.
And that's Bumblebee's greatest strength. Travis Knight gets it, that if someone goes to see a movie about giant robots, they expect to see giant goddamned robots. Not some stupid romance between two absolutely boring human actors.
Two warnings before I finish. One; this movie falls entirely in a category that I call, nostalgia predators. That is they prey upon the viewer's nostalgia. And damn it if they didn't milk that 80's nostalgia hard, there's a lot of musical and pop culture references. Two, the movie is absolutely goofy and even silly. It's a movie about giant robots that turn into cars. Of course it'd be silly. But it's the right kind of silly, the sort that manages to be fun and even awesome.
My biggest gripe with it, is that Hasbro still decided to play it safe and keep it as a sort of prequel to Bayformers. Had it ibeen up to me, I would have deleted that one sequence that tied it to the horrible Bayformer movies and marched ahead as its own continuity.
So basically Bumblebee is a big fun goofy action flick about giant robots punching the living daylights out of each other with tons of 80's nostalgia, directed by someone who isn't a tasteless explosion-obsessed hack.
And that's awesome.
Post edited January 01, 2019 by j0ekerr
