Bumblebee is pure childhood fun. It isn't logical but then no one has found a way to make a movie about robots that transform into cars believable. But this one seems to have figured out how to make it watchable. Bumblebee follows the mold of 80s kid-meets-alien/robot/mysticalcreature formula. If you've seen a movie like Short Circuit or Flight of the Navigator or The Iron Giant, you've seen Bumblebee. It is appropriate it's set in the 80s. It's not reinventing the wheel. It's just finally making a Transformers movie that doesn't hurt the eyes.
This one is really for the kids (or the kid in each of us) and is very family friendly. It also appears to deviate from previous Transformers films. I've read some people try to connect them but this movie shows the titular hero leaving Cybertron and arriving on Earth apparently for the first time despite The Last Knight showing him being here much earlier in history. It also appears the Autobots are hiding here as a way of avoiding Decepticons but in the first film it's established that Megatron is frozen here as well. Also humans appear to know about the robots now while previous movies set up another first reveal. Sure the film tries to origin story the yellow hero by showing us why he looses his voice, gets his name, and likes teenagers but the rest of it doesn't sync up. I am hoping that all these anachronisms means Bumblebee provides a bit of a reboot and we can forget (thankfully) all the previous movies.
Whatever, in my mind I can now pretend no other Transformers movies exist and this one can just be a light fun popcorn flick to enjoy with the kids.
Bumblebee
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr.
Director: Travis Knight
Writer: Christina Hodson
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