“On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.”

Kenjac: So, “Iron Giant”? That’s basically Iron Giant. We at Lights, Camera Barstool are pretty much done with Transformers on a whole. We reviewed “Transformers: The Last Knight” in our second ever episode back in September, and it was an tremendously huge pile of shit. Although, the insane amount of product placement in the movie did make for some solid content.

This looks relatively more promising though! The spin-off seems to be on a smaller scale and not a CGI fuckfest like the rest of the main franchise films. Hailee Steinfeld is a totally fine actress too. I liked “True Grit” a lot, but the Pitch Perfect sequels just weren’t my thing. Big question here is if shes going to do it with the robot. Men, are we losing our place to transformers and fish monsters? Also, Max Kellerman, we need more Cena in that trailer! This is all we got!

Looking like a whole ass meal though! Speaking of which, if you haven’t seen “Blockers” yet, your’re missing out. Probably the funniest movie of the year so far. He’s presumably going to be the Josh Duhamel of the movie and not the bad guy. I have absolutely zero expectations for this movie except for that it will probably blow away a bunch of better movies at the box office, just like “Transformers: The Last Knight” did with “Blade Runner 2049″.

Jeff: Sigh. Boo. Fuuuuuuck. Look, I like Cena and I like Steinfeld, so there is nothing against them here. Grab that bag and run, this movie will pay them well and make a lot of money, I am sure. But holy hell, I am sick of these movies. When people don’t want to see a movie or franchise anymore, I always say “just don’t see them.” For us, being movie guys, we have to see everything, so there truly is no option.

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ was the loudest, dumbest and most headache-inducing summer blockbuster I have ever seen. When I say dumbest, I truly mean it too. That movie was the dumbest movie I have ever seen and having a scene about Anthony Hopkins’ character owning “the watch that killed Hitler” sums it up perfectly.

Two quick notes:

– Is this a ‘Shape of Water’ robot movie?

– The ending Rick Roll scene is cringeworthy

The good news? This is the last of the Michael Bay movies in the Transformers Universe. The bad news? They’re going to reboot the whole thing and build it into the new Hasbro Cinematic Universe. There will be many, many years of new Transformers movies. Maybe this new one will be fun? Have more depth? Have more substance? But that seems unlikely.

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