Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Steelbook [4K UHD]

Changed my review after a second viewing and some education on the characters so it was my fault for not being a devoted Transformers fan enough to understand the original series from the comic books I never read. Apologies.

Entertaining.

Another Amazing Transformers movie! Great for adults and kids. Definitely worth a rental or to buy to add to your collection.

After the Bumblebee movie renewed my faith in the live-action Transformers series, I was really psyched for the next one to come out. I was surprised that the new movie was going to incorporate a lot from the Beast Wars side of the franchise, where instead of cars and planes they transformed into animals. Now I didn't watch a lot of the Beast Wars cartoon back when I was a little kid, but I did have a lot of their toys. So after watching it, I thought that the movie was pretty good! It kind of takes a lot of queues from the previous Michael Bay movies than Bumblebee did, but done in a good way with likeable characters, no racist stereotypes, and that it wasn't entirely The Human Show with special stars The Transformers. The acting was good, and it was great hearing Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime again, plus casting Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal was genius. I was originally hesitant about Pete Davidson as Mirage, nothing against the guy but he's not really one of my favorite SNL cast members, but the character eventually grew on me as the movie went on. The CGI effects look great, especially given the ones for the original Beast Wars cartoon haven't aged well. I love the robot designs, which was never really a problem for me before in the Bayformers movies unlike for a bunch of G1 purist crybabies, however I don't like what they did to my boy Wheeljack who looks nothing like he did in the opening to the Bumblebee movie. I know that he was different in Dark of the Moon, but since he was named Que in that movie for some reason and I was unaware of how awesome the character was before, I decided to think of him as that character instead of Wheeljack. But this is a direct continuation to Bumblebee and is supposed to be a reboot to the live-action series, so why couldn't this have been a different Transformer like Percepter? So I guess I'll go with everyone else and refer to this version as Pablo. I was worried that the Maximals wouldn't get much screen time in this movie like the Dinobots did in Age of Extinction, but thankfully Airrazor was introduced to the Autobots early so they wouldn't be entirely left out. I was disappointed that other Maximals like Rattrap, Tigatron, or Dinobot (who is a character unaffiliated with THE Dinobots) wasn't in the movie, nor were any of the Predacons except for a legion of Scorponoks that were really just mindless footsoldiers for Unicron and the Terrorcons. I mean Scourge was a cool enough villain, but it would've been awesome seeing Prime fight a version of Megatron who transforms into a T. Rex. I'm also disappointed that they cut out a scene at the beginning where Prime fights a Decepticon named Transit because apparently test screenings thought it was too dark for this movie. I saw an unfinished version of the scene on YouTube and I thought it wasn't that bad, especially since I think Transit's death was a lot tamer than Scourge's. Speaking of which, it would've been even more awesome and also cathartic if both Prime and Primal took down Scourge together with Noah's help given what Scourge did to the Maximal homeworld and because he's supposed to be this super powerful threat. Also it's pretty convenient that there were three tasks perfectly suitable for the human characters to do, especially trying to shut down an alien device that'll open up portal for Unicron to devour Earth. Overall this movie was pretty good and a great chapter in this rebooted Transformers films series. It's not perfect and has a lot of missed opportunities, but it's obviously made by people who love and respect this franchise unlike Michael Bay. I don't want to give away the surprise ending, but we might be seeing some crossovers in the future.

Good movie

Was excited to watch this as a fan since the 80s. I'm glad they kept Peter Cullen as Optimus and that they introduced Arcee and Mirage. However, there was no need to butcher Mirage's personality. If they wanted Sideswipe's personality, they could have just used Sideswipe. They also butchered Wheeljack by just slapping his name on a completely made up character that bore no resemblance. Nightbird was a fake ninja robot made by humans who appeared in exactly one story from the cartoon series so it was weird to see that character in this. Why not just use the Sweeps as Scourge's minions? Scourge is the leader of the Sweeps, and Cyclonus should have been the leader of Unicron's minions. It would have been so easy to stay true to the canon material and still have the same outcome. Some poor decision-making went into what could have been a stellar movie that both old and new fans would have respected.

Typical movie

Is this a good movie? No. It's not.Read all the reviews, like on Rotten Tomatoes.The only good transformers movie was the first one, 2007 I think.