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Bumblebee

Paramount Pictures

Allspark Pictures

Bay Films

di Bonaventura Pictures

DeSanto/Murphy Productions

Tencent Pictures

China

United States of America

English

Dylan O'Brien

Hailee Steinfeld

John Cena

Jorge Lendeborg Jr.

John Ortiz

Stephen Schneider

Jason Ian Drucker

Pamela Adlon

Len Cariou

Glynn Turman

Peter Cullen

Angela Bassett

Justin Theroux

Gracie Dzienny

Ricardo Hoyos

Lenny Jacobson

Megyn Price

Kollin Holtz

Fred Dryer

Isabelle Ellingson

Mika Kubo

Felicia Stiles

George Anagnostou

Brandon Wardle

Krystin Goodwin

Nick Pilla

Sachin Bhatt

Tim Martin Gleason

David Waters

Antonio D. Charity

Courtney Coker

Edwin Hodge

Jake Huang

Holland Diaz

Dave Cutler

Lars Slind

David Sobolov

Grey DeLisle-Griffin

Jon Bailey

Steve Blum

Andrew Morgado

Kirk Baily

Dennis Singletary

Vanessa Ross

Tony Toste

Nico Abiera

Jiana Alvarez

Jace Areff

Manny Avina

William W. Barbour

Jesse Stoudt

DeMark Thompson

Boston Rush Freeman

Rachel Crow

Abby Quinn

Stephanie Heiner

Christina Hodson

Ron Ames

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Jason Smith

Mike Gunther

Rob Tokarz

Iain McFadyen

Sam Page

Al Hobbs

Leeann Stonebreaker

Brian Relyea

Eric Sundahl

Luis G. Hoyos

Wendy Hoffmann

Robert Woodruff

Ranjani Brow

Ashley Lambert

Amanda Moss Serino

Dane Farwell

Zack Duhame

Emily K. Rolph

James Boyer

Jeremy Mennel

Simon Murton

Sam Howden

Paige Augustine

Kathleen Rosen

Chelsea Mondelli

Kevin Massey

Nicolas Nino

Maya Shimoguchi

Brian Ormiston

Trisha Burton

Emanuela Cozzi

Lizzy Jane Klein

Cindy Mah

Andy Ryan

Ellen Lampl

Craig Handschu

Joel Galarza

Scott R. Fisher

Thomas Pringle

Don Varley

Joey Miller

Don Reynolds

Richard King Slifka

Mark Vena

Matt Tkocz

James Ciccarelli

Jose Garibay

Jessica Ripka

Brendan J. Claybourn

Sean Grimes

Dustin Chapnick

Julian Narino

Mark Woods

Sara Gardner-Gail

Andreas Macat

Jonathan Fuh

Jaim O'Neil

Patrick Shaw

Jennifer Lagura

Eric Tolzmann

Heather Harris

David Agajanian

Luis F. Candanoza

Bryan Hatchitt

Anthony Syracuse

William P. McGinley

Steven Pearson

Justin Wever

Kent Matsuoka

Vernon Smith

Guillaume DeLouche

Taylor Vaughan

Daniel Torres

Zachary Quemore

Brian K. Lee

Nick Jamison

Brian Schreiner

Justin Duncan

John David Reynolds

Bernie Hagadorn

Don Telles

Jose Reyes

Michael Chickey

Jeffrey Lombardi

Walker McGuire

Andrew Williams

Shannon Summers

Kevin Johnson

Joshua Tovar

Taylor Erickson

Darrin Cummings

Michael Panevics

Wendy L. Schilling

Rashod Edwards

Hans G. Struhar

Decent, by the numbers, popcorn movie. Better than the other live action Transformers movie, but still not very good. Best parts were the fight scenes, especially on Cybertron. Otherwise, it was average, 5/10.

Gimly

Strong contender for best live-action _Transformers_ movie ever made, but Christ, what a low fuckin' bar that is. The fact it isn't the clear and absolute winner is a devastating criticism.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

CinemaSerf

So I thought that "Herbie" had it tough! Well his traumas look like tea with the Queen compared to poor old "Bumblebee"! He actually starts off life with the much less friendly moniker of "B-127" when he is sent to Earth to set things up amidst what looks like the end of the war between the his "Autobots" and the "Decepticons" on their home planet of "Cybertron". He lands slap bang in the middle of some top secret American military testing that handily looks at all things extra-terrestrial and that's when we encounter the menacing "Burns" (John Cena) who deduces that our yellow Meccano is not natural and that it must be hunted down and captured or destroyed. As if that we're not enough, "Blitzwing" is also on the planet and they have a duel that renders our yellow hero unable to speak and forced to turn into his more recognisable motor car shape while he repairs the damage from that combat and awaits his pals. "Charlie" (Hailee Steinfeld) discovers it hiding in a scrapyard and by touching things she shouldn't, activates all sorts of beacons and gadgets that breaks his cover and summons friend and foe alike for the usual slew of "Transformer" tear 'em limb from limb escapades. There's quite a bit of fun from the dialogue and the visual effects are enjoyable too as we follow a well trammelled path of formulaic storytelling, tempered with a little human bonding, and some mediocre acting. They've tried to give "Bumblebee" some personable characteristics - think of a less cowardly "C-3PO", but as an action adventure it's all just a bit long and predictable. The denouement is quite action-packed, though, and I think it's at the better end of this franchise so just about worth two hours.

<em>'Bumblebee'</em> is a decent attempt at a reset of sorts for this franchise, but unfortunately I found it to be a bit boring. There admittedly isn't much to whine about, though alternatively nothing overtly positive springs to my mind about it either. It is still one of the better from the series.

Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena are the two that are most noteworthy on the cast, across both the human and robot actors. Steinfeld does good and is a well chosen lead, Cena feels a little off from his usual schtick but is perfectly OK. None of the voice cast stand out to be honest, despite the presence of Angela Bassett.

The titular character is an interesting decision to give a spin-off (prequel) film to, I can't say he stood out to me in the preceding entries. In fact, if I hadn't already known that they had based a movie around him I wouldn't have really took any extra notice of the yellow robot. As a <em>'Transformers'</em> noob, I thought Optimus Prime would've been the logical choice?

I do appreciate that this one decided to be more story-driven, as opposed to matching the bombastic action that preceded it. There are some alright moments in there in fairness, I was just never noticeably hooked into what I was following onscreen.

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