![]() Problems do, however, inevitably arise with " Bumblebee" since it often appears to be stuck on fast-forward, especially during big emotional moments. The film's "formulaic" nature isn't necessarily a bad thing. Throw in the mute, nigh-magical, E.T.-like Bumblebee, and bam, you got yourself a thrice-nuked fish-out-of-water-tale. Yet while " Bumblebee" is a movie where sentient war machine robots go pew-pew at each other-and blow up trucks, and sometimes reduce human beings to translucent goo-this is also apparently a film about generically rebellious teenager Charlie Watson ("True Grit" star Hailee Steinfeld), a young woman who listens to The Smiths, resents her mom ("Better Things" star Pamela Adlon), and has a tentative romance with a wimpy boy-next-neighbor named Memo (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.). well, a bit like both the older Transformers film and the newer Transformer films, actually. ![]() ![]() not having been to Earth yet? You guessed it, dear reader: " Bumblebee" is a prequel, a bridge between the notoriously confusing "Transformers: The Movie" and Bay's tediously noisy " Transformers," so it makes sense that this new movie should be. " Bumblebee" begins with a lifeless homage/tip of the cap to the animated "Transformers: The Movie." War has come to Cybertron, the home of the Autobots-who have apparently already visited Earth, and therefore look like cars-and the Decepticons, who also look like cars and jets and things, despite.
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