I've always been a big Transformers fan since I can remember. But I can say that sadly, I haven't had a nice content in film fo any of its iterations, with only the exception of 'Bumblebee' the 2018 movie.
To me, Michael Bay films don't do a great work with the designs and they always focus the plot on the human protagonists despite the movie being supposed to be about the alien robots.
To me, Michael Bay films don't do a great work with the designs and they always focus the plot on the human protagonists despite the movie being supposed to be about the alien robots.
When I saw the trailer of this one, I was cautiously interested. Then I started to hear that the movie was not so well received. I started thinking that maybe it was another regular to mediocre movie. But I needed to check it for myself anyway. And oh, boy I was happy to be wrong. This movie is one of the best ones of the franchise. Adding to that, later I discovered the opinions of critiques and viewers had high scores.
It contains many cameos of known characters of the franchise and the best thing is that they have a design very close to their classic looks, so it of course tries to reach the nostalgic side of the fans. It has many action scenes of course and humorous moments too. These later ones were a bit of a worry because the trailers included many of them and I tought the movie was more aimed to the comedic side, but that wasn't the case. The movie can be serious and dramatic when it needs to be and funny and crazy when the moment allows it.
The movie tells the story in a linear way and making use of flashbacks since there are many important exposition that happened before the story started.
The style is not realistic, neither cartoony but something in between.
The looks in the Transformers design stand a lot to me, specially compared with the bizarre looking one of the Bay movies I watched before. Each one of the characters can be identified and remebered. That was one issue I had with previous movies.
The type of animation they chose to go for this movie was CGI and in my opinion is a well done one.
The movie is very well done but if I could, I'll add more participation of the cast that only appeared as a cameo. I know it's other iteration but I wouldn't chose the character they choose to be the villain, since he originally is a good guy.























