| 01.08.2019 – Bumblebee is the first character to be featured in a solo movie, which is considered a spotlight on the character. In the comic books, IDW Publishing produced one-shot stories featuring well-known TF characters and Hasbro takes inspiration to that concept in bringing it to their film series with a soft reboot to the franchise.
The timeline is set in 1987 going back to an era of pop culture nostalgia for Transformers fans out there. Hasbro goes small with the sixth iteration of the Transformers films with renewed direction focusing on one character namely Bumblebee. |
After five films about the threat to humanity and an invasion by shape-changing alien robots the Transformers franchise shift to the more grounded narrative with the origin set as a prequel having Bumblebee as its lead that also introduces Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie Watson and John Cena as Agent Burns in their lead roles.
The film has already been reviewed by fans and critics as the best Transformers film in the franchise that has enough pop culture reference from the 1980s. This is also the first Transformers film that features a female lead role by Steinfeld and introduces the early days of Sector-7.
The War for Cybertron
What most fans are excited about is the Cybertron opening scene chock full of Transformers characters inspired by the G1 cartoon series. This is not the ‘Bayverse’ aesthetics that you’ve seen before as based from Travis Knight’s early interview when he started directing this film he wants to go back from the beginning of the franchise growing up playing with the action figures when he was nine years old.
Prior to the film’s release images of Optimus Prime has been leaked online clearly that Hasbro and the producers behind Bumblebee want to ‘right the ship’ with a definitive origin story for the character. The story is superbly written by Christina Hobson and has enough callbacks to the franchise G1 origins that made this watchable Transformers film for everyone.
Rolling Out to a New Era
It’s a well-balanced film with enough robot action that’s not as brutal as the previous films and mass shift on the vehicle to robot mode isn’t an issue. The visual effects team certainly made sure Shatter and Dropkick’s second vehicle models are the scales of their car modes. Shatter’s jet mode is small it’s in scale with her car mode the same goes with the chopper form for Dropkick.
Although there is an inconsistency with the timeline of the previous films its course correcting itself in the next possible follow-ups and disregarding some nuisance in the previous movie timeline. Clearly, Bumblebee is the renewed beginning for the Transformers franchise moving ahead not only just to sell toys but making sure the mythology is now in the right hands' thanks to Travis Knight.
Bumblebee Movie Release Dates | 20 December 2018 in Australia | 8 January 2019 in the Philippines | Listing for the Rest of the World HERE!
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