Film
Bumblebee
- Director
- Travis Knight
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 114 mins
Don’t be fooled by title – this is the sixth film in the loud, empty and profoundly unlovely Transformers series of extended toy advertisements. Possibly because Michael Bay had taken the battling space robots thing as far as it could go with 2017’s FX-laden, headache-inducing Transformers: The Last Knight, which was the lowest grossing film in the franchise and nominated for ten Golden Raspberry awards (Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Actor and even Worst Screen Combo for “any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions”), he’s decided to dial it all down with this prequel to the original 2007 film.
Set 20 years earlier in 1987, Bumblebee has the eponymous little yellow ‘autobot’ taking the form of a Volkswagen Beetle who’s befriended by a teenage girl (Hailee Steinfeld). They’re then hunted by rotten old Agent Burns (John Cena) of Sector 7. This is the first film in the series that isn’t directed by Bay, who’s handed the reins to Travis Knight, boss of the Laika animation studio and director of the excellent Kubo and the Two Strings.
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