cgrill8

Okay, I really enjoyed Bumblebee. RotB has a similar feel.

The good: MORE Characters! Optimus has a bit of a character arc with trust.

It has a simple plot, but it works.

The villain! Scourge was the best villain I've seen in a live action TF movie! So while we have YET to Megatron in this new reboot... he's got to be much more... insane and calculating than Scourge was here!

The actors...I will admit I did not like Elena at first but by the end she grew on me.

Did I say there were more transformer characters!?

The music (well, the incidental music anyway) was really good.

The little brother's plight added a sentimental touch and helped the main character (Anthony's)move his story arc fairly well.

The length was not overly long for a TF movie!!!!

The bad: Wheeljack's head/face. He should have just been called a different name!

The Beast characters finally get some action near the end... but we rarely got to see them in Bot mode which was a shame... Rhinox had some speaking lines... but only in a deleted scene! (ARGH!) The subtitle should have centered on Mirage. While this is not our G1 Mirage... I liked him! This was HIS movie, like Bumblebee carried his. The movie was misnamed.

The 90s stuff in the beginning was...okay. I'm sure some people will get a kick out of some pop tunes from that era (again they are trying to center the movie on maximal characters which are NOT the main cast for the sake of the time Beast Wars was on TV.)... While the 'era' was fine... the whole PC angle just left a bad taste in my mouth. Don't remember anyone with issues getting jobs during that era like that... maybe in the 1950s... but I was unemployed myself in the 90s and I'm 'whyte' as I saw many other people that didn't look like me getting jobs I waa trying to simply get an Interview for! (Anyway)... still it was that overall part of the plot (while slow to start) really picks up when someone tries to steal a Porsche... THEN it turns into Transformers! And it doesn't stop after that!!

Overall I'd watch it again easily. It wasn't great, it wasn't bad. Hope the next movie centers around Megatron. If you expect seeing Primal, Cheetor and Rhinox having adventures... nope not this movie. But still overall not a bad movie in the same vein as Bumblebee.

Don't listen to the criticism. I went in thinking the worst not really wanting to enjoy it just to see it in the big screen. We used gift cards to see it so we didn't pay much. The movie isn't half bad! I was very surprised. The music was right on par. Everything was better than VIII. Finn did more than nothing! He was the glue and positive energy that kept the crew together while Rey just kept going off on her own. After seeing IX explains why the First Order was taking their time 'finishing' the rebels off in IX (which originally turned me off on VIII). The movie goes FAST. Made for people with ADHD? Maybe but we may just need all the deleted scenes back in. The movie wasn't bad and the end did get a bit sentimental, but it could have taken it's time a little bit for us to breathe. It does make sense. Thankfully I had to get up to use the restroom and missed the whole "they fly now?" Bit. Could have done without seeing 2 girls kiss at the end... why!??? Other than that ONE complaint it was not a bad movie for THIS chapter of this alternative saga created by Disney and wraps everything up rather well. Plenty of neat cameos too. Again I'd watch it again with the extra scenes added in. Give us that 3 hour movie y'all were touting. Worth a few extra viewings actually compared to the ONE viewing of VIII.