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Jun 9, 2023 · 52% Tomatometer 232 Reviews 91% Audience Score 5,000+ Verified Ratings Returning to the action and spectacle that have captured moviegoers around the world, Transformers: Rise of the...
Jun 9, 2023 · Reviews. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Christy Lemire June 09, 2023. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. It’s still a movie about giant space robots talking trash and smashing into each other, but “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” is better than most offerings in the franchise.
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Jun 6, 2023 4:00 am
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts premieres in theaters on June 9, 2023.
You son of a gun, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — I’m back in. Consider me as shocked as anyone to be genuinely excited for more Transformers movies after the disappointing-at-best Age of Extinction and The Last Knight. The one-two combo of Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts is a course correction that unites beloved Transformer clans, introduces decent human characters, and spotlights metal-crunching action that’s an upgrade from the nondescript animated slop we’ve been served in Michael Bay’s last few movies. It’s certainly not going to win over the Academy (outside a possible special effects nomination), but director Steven Caple Jr. executes Rise of the Beasts as a get-the-job-done summer crowd-pleaser that makes me feel like a kid watching Saturday morning cartoons again, only on a grander and more exciting scale.
Picking up the story after 2018’s Bumblee, Rise of the Beasts sticks to the ancient era of 1994, giving it some comfortable distance from the stink of Transformers movies we try not to talk about anymore. Anthony Ramos stars as Brooklyn electronics wiz and ex-soldier Noah Diaz, who acts as the Autobots’ human correspondent, and as he comically grapples with the reality of mechanized aliens driving Earth’s highways, the irreplaceable voice of Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime reveals a new artifact of the day that must be recovered before it falls into the hands of the world-eating, planet-sized villain Unicron. It’s exactly as cookie-cutter a plot as you’d expect from a movie like this.
The animal-themed Maximals aren’t the first non-Autobot or Decepticon faction to appear in these Transformers movies, but they certainly make a more impactful entrance (I’d already forgotten about the Dinobots in Age of Extinction). Ron Perlman’s guttural bellow as lowland gorilla bot Optimus Primal meets the character’s barrel-chested imposition, while Michelle Yeoh soothes as the wise and majestic peregrine falcon bot Airazor. There’s a clear distinction between Optimus Primal’s connection with nature and Earth’s inhabitants versus the untrusting and more militant Optimus Prime, and it goes beyond the visual contrasts of Maximal robotics layered with fur and feathers against Autobot detailing with vibrant Pimp My Ride designs. They took me right back to my days watching the early morning cartoon Beast Wars: Transformers before-school with a bowl of cereal, and Rise of the Beasts effectively pays off that nostalgia (even if my chatty favorite Rattrap is sorely missed).
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As for the animation required to bring planet-devourers and Autobot saviors to life, it’s mainly exhilarating outside of interactions where Transformers and human actors engage with one another physically. Maybe that’s Optimus Prime picking Noah up like a nervous hamster or a bodysuit scene where Transformers technology covers an actor aside from h...
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts proves that Bumblebee wasn’t a fluke, and that the Transformers series is finally accelerating in the right direction. Steven Caple Jr. oversees a solid balance between paint-by-numbers intergalactic doomsday storytelling and entertainment-first Transformers action, even though it never achieves the epic scope it’s ...
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