![]() ![]() If Bumblebee was a pseudo-remake of the 2007 Transformers, Rise of the Beasts is some bastardized amalgamation of Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon if they were stripped of their lunacy. Hell, I’m willing to offer up another idea for your consideration: had Bay directed under a pseudonym and made Optimus Prime look just a little more like he did in the classic cartoon, those movies would have had some measure of critical acclaim, or at least more than they did at the time. On some level, they are, but as Transformers: Rise of the Beasts demonstrates, the flaws weren’t solely Bay’s. Of course, this won’t lead to Michael Bay coming back to the franchise (and thank God for that, given that we got 6 Underground and Ambulance after he left it), but I do think it will lead people to ask if the Bayformers movies were as bad as they might seem on the surface. Here’s an interesting thought: If each subsequent film in the Transformers series has to be a nostalgia-fest for an era in which the viewer might have grown up - Travis Knight’s Bumblebee sported the mismatched ‘80s aesthetic of a Target display stacked with Stranger Things products, and Steven Caple Jr.s’ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts blasts hip-hop classics, coats its walls in Power Rangers posters, and shows off the Twin Towers in a desperate bid to tell you to turn your pages to 1993 / Robots is getting smoked, G / Believe me – would the next film in the series be the 2007 Transformers? Or at least a tribute to it? In just a few years, that movie will be twenty years old (Jesus fucking Christ), and indeed a whole host of young millennials and elder Gen Z kids will want to watch whatever in-vogue ingenue watch Fred videos ripped from YouTube on a click-wheel-sporting iPod before Optimus Prime swoops in to whisk them off to some anonymous adventure sourced from some stupid prophecy or ancient icon.
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