Recently I watched Bumblebee and I think it was great.

Hailey Steinfield’ character was great and she was good at delivering the emotional scenes of the movie.

John Cena is a standard villain but had really good lines, so he is quite likable.

The movie is really good at making the environment have a 90s feel to it, which is also when the movie is set to take place. The CGI was good for the Transformers but I don’t think the CGI was ever bad in the Micheal Bay’s Transformers too.

I never watched the old Transformers TV shows but something about looking at a cartoon-like Transformer in the first act, especially when they held those black toy gun that were really long, felt so nostalgic. I never watched the TV shows but even the design of the Transformer in the movie is so recognizable. You can look at it and you immediately know it’s a Transformer movie. And I think that is what makes this movie such a great reboot. Instead of dark metallic Transformer with almost no colour other than silver, we have brightly coloured ones in this movie.

But I think humans don’t fit in this movie. The relationship between Bumblebee and Charlie Watson (Hailey Steinfield) felt real but when it comes to the ending fight, the humans can’t really do anything. They just felt pasted into the place the fight is taking place and have to do small things to seem useful. If this movie have taken place in another planet, I think it would have been better.

The movie also tried to be emotional about the human protagonist (Charlie Watson) but this movie is focusing on Bumblebee not the humans. The movie should not spend most of its time on a emotional subplot when the main focus is the Transformers.

And why can’t Bumblee transform into a fighter jet or a plane?

However, this movie shines in the fight scenes, I love how they make use of the fact that these robots can transform, so the fight scenes really smart with its use of transforming. Maybe that’s why Bumblebee had to take place on Earth, so they can transform into cars that looked good when they were fighting.

Another problem of this movie is how Bumblebee became very silly. I mean its Wall-E kind of cute but we saw a much serious version of Bumblebee in the first part then why dont we stick to that? I know he lost his memory but he just acts so dumb and scared when we could have seen a much cooler version of him. I think the cuter side of him is for the children to enjoy. I mean its funny but his personality could have improved much more. And I think he acts this way is because Bumblebee is in Earth, so he gave to explain everything to the humans there.

Overall despite its problems, I really enjoyed this movie and I think it’s still a great reboot to the Transformer franchise.

Ratings:8/10