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Bumblebeerolls into field of operations this Christmas , and the newteaser trailerhas already shown how the prequel addresses fans ' issues with the previousTransformerssaga directed by Michael Bay .
Directed by Travis Knight ( Kubo and the Two Strings ) and written by Christina Hodgson , Bumblebeelooks to be a necessary de - escalation from the last sentence the robots in disguise bump off the crowing screen , 2017’sTransformers : The Last Knight . That fifth transformer pic established the heretofore nameless ' hidden history ' of the Cybertronians on Earth : they have been here for thousands of years , influenced in primal historic events like World War II , and that Earth itself is secretly Unicron , the greatest foe of the sentient robots of Cybertron . in the end , The Last Knightexhausted audiences and Bay ’s fifth and finalTransformersmovie cease up as the lowest grossing of the series at thebox office .
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By demarcation , Bumblebeelooks to be a conscious endeavour on the part of the filmmakers to return to what made the originalTransformersfilm in 2007 such a hit in the first place . Bay ’s inaugural endeavour was n’t without numerous flaw , but interview a decade ago took a shine to see to it the good and malefic golem of Cybertron go to state of war on Earth , with Shia LaBeouf , Megan Fox , and soldiers head by Josh Duhamel and Tyrese fighting alongsideOptimus Primeand the Autobots .
Here ’s how it ’s already evident from the tormentor trailer thatBumblebeeis addressing some of the biggest problems fans had with Michael Bay’sTransformers :
The Lack of Color And The Uniformity of Bay’s Transformers
belike the most pleasing sports fan service here and now in the teaser is the heap ofStarscreamtransforming , and that the wannabe leader of the Decepticons is in his Generation-1 modal value as a red and white fighter aircraft jet . Even these scant few instant of Starscream pappa , and that ’s becauseBumblebee ’s colouring material schema appears brighter than in Bay ’s films . Throughout the previous fiveTransformers , much of the golem vs. automaton activity take place at night , while the bright daylight guess showcased the vehicles rolling out ( but not transforming into their robot modes ) . With a few key exceptions , most of the robots appeared indistinguishable and interchangeable . The Last Knightespecially bled out a mountain of the color during post - production , creating a more metal sheen to the images .
Bumblebeeis notably go for Steven Spielberg - style 1980s ' warmth and that includes letting the movie be more colourful and feel more real . Bumblebee ’s gleaming yellowness and Starscream ’s colour appear brighter and , by confine the issue of robots in the picture , it will be easier to invest in them as characters as fight to the one - dimensional ( and frankly anti-Semite ) stereotype Bay leaned into .
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The Robot Mechanics In Bumblebee Look More Real Than Ever
In the trailer , Charlie Watson ( Hailee Steinfeld ) , who is a mechanic , slides underneath the chassis of the yellow Volkswagen mallet she brought home from a junkyard and is surprised to see what see like a automaton face . She ’s even more surprised when the face ’s eye light up and the motorcar transform into a panic-struck golem . The visual effect here look flawless and the physics , forcible exfoliation , and movements of Bumblebee look more naturalistic than ever before . CGI has come a long way in the 10 since the firstTransformersand Bumblebee looks the best he ’s ever looked .
Much of this has to do with the prequel dropping Michael Bay ’s robot design ( which is one of the manycontroversiessparked by the theatre director ) and instead take over the simpler and beloved Generation-1 look of the Transformers from when they stumble American toy dog ledge and TV blind in the early 1980s . Not only is Bumblebee a Volkswagen , but the way he transforms in the prequel very tight resemble how his original toy dog would transform , with his head swinging down into the bottom of his chassis when he ’s in fomite modality .
Similarly , Starscream ’s look is pleasingly aG-1 design(though he is an F-4 Phantom II inBumblebeeand not an F-15 Eagle ) . Between his lily-white , ruby-red , and drear color scheme and how he also metamorphose just like his original toy dog does , Starscream looks like Starscream , which will go a long path to winning over longtime Transformers diehards who rejected the Bayformers designs .
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The Lack of Real Heart In Bay’s Transformers
The drone ’s economic consumption of voiceover from the tardy Bernie Mac in the originalTransformershammers domicile the"mystical bond between man and car " . The human relationship between a male child and his railcar Bumblebee was the genuine warmheartedness of the original plastic film and what made it vibrate . It ’s hard for audiences to relate to war exotic robots destroying the Earth , but just about anyone can sympathize withShia LaBeouffeeling a James Bond with his car , which just chance to be a transforming extraterrestrial robot . Bumblebeeis also leaning intemperately into this theme , but this time , it ’s show that the Autobot bonded with a teenage girl two decades before he met Sam in Bernie Mac ’s used car raft .
This is fundamental because as Bay’sTransformerssaga continued , actual nub and mankind were left behind in place of explosions and ever - more - ludicrous spectacle . Even whenMark Wahlbergreplaced Shia LaBeouf as the lead fictional character in the series , the humans were mostly reduced to running and leaping out of the room of explosions as the golem collided with each other . At sound , they cater the necessary expo to explicate the films ' increasingly tongue-tied and bizarre mythology to each other and to the audience . By dividing line , Bumblebeelooks to be centered around what worked in the original , the human relationship between a man and her new car , in the good SpielbergianE.T.and Brad BirdThe Iron Gianttradition .
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A Smaller Scale Means A Better Transformers Movie
By the timeThe Last Knightended , the Earth had spud the enormous automaton horns ofUnicron while Cybertronitself was in orbit around our human race . This was after discovering the Transformers were on Earth fighting alongside King Arthur and his knights , there was a undercover society ofWitwiccansthroughout history , Bumblebee fought in World War II , and Optimus Prime turned momently evil before he was redeemed by his firm chicken brother . Who can blame audiences for throwing up their men and rejecting how incomprehensible and utterly absurd theTransformersmovies had become ?
WhileBumblebeedoesn’t seem like it ’s rebooting any of that prove mythology , asmaller scale and budgetmeans a more personal story , which is a wise move that should pay off . take over the nub relationship from the first and most popularTransformersfilm with a new human graphic symbol may seem like work-shy penning , but it work like gangbusters once before and could happen raw , more intriguing proportion with Hailee Steinfeld ’s Charlie as contradict to Shia LaBeouf ’s Sam . By casting Steinfeld , an Oscar - nominated actress , in the lead , Bumblebeeis also correcting how Michael Bay ’s distaff characters played by Megan Fox , Rosie Huntington - Whiteley , and Laura Haddock were first and world-class cast for sex appeal with fiddling in the way of personality .
The preview also presents some intriguing enquiry : Why was Bumblebee hiding in a junkyard in a 1987 California beach town ? Why ca n’t he speak and why is he afraid ? Why is Starscream hunting him and is he awareMegatronis imprison in the Hoover Dam ? Why isJohn Cenain this motion picture ? And , because fans have never heard of Charlie Watson before now , what happened to her in the 20 days before Sam Witwicky came into the picture?Bumblebeehas a lot of potentially fascinating ground to cover but when it ’s all said and done , it will hopefully be the bestTransformersmovie since Bay ’s original - maybe even the best one of all .
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