Friday, December 28, 2018

Bumblebee

Probably the best character driven Transformer movie made. This was an origin story for Bumblebee (B-127, a soldier in the Autobot resistance), and background on how the autobots came to earth. In practice, it was a coming of age/dealing with grief story for a teenage girl who lost her father... which happened to have a few transformers in it. What I most appreciated is that the story was primary, and the Transformer bits fit into the story (with the exception of the bumbling around the living room scene). In contrast, other transformer movies were a bunch of transformer scenes with some story/dialogue used as connective tissue. I like this better.
4 stars (out of 5)

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