The year is 1987 and Jon Cena is not yet a professional wrestler with the 5 moves of dooms and instead is a government agent who deals with secret operations. Okay, John Cena may have had a name for the character in the movie but to me he is John Cena, playing John Cena, kinda like the Rock is the Rock in all of his movies, but back to the movie. Cena is the first human to see a transformer when a Bumblebee comes crashing down to earth. Lucky John. Bumblebee escapes from war on Cybertron and has been sent to earth because it is a hidden planet and Optimus wants to set up a new base there. Assuming this leads into the the Lebuff-- yes I know that is not his real name -- transformers when does Megatron crash into the north pole? If he is already on earth how is the war on Cybertron going on, oh wait this is a transformers movie so there is no need to worry about connecting the story to other movies let's blow stuff up.
Bumblebee lands on earth gets his voicebox damage and forgets what he is doing on earth learns to love humans, well mainly one, the charming Charlie Watson who is dealing with lots of issues of her own as a 18 year old who's father has passed away. Charlie is a great mechanic who fixes Bee and develops a friendship with as they try and figure out what the point of Bee being here is.
Actually don't worry about the story at all in this one. You will enjoy it a lot better if you just say transformer movies are meant to sell toys and watch things blow up, the story is secondary. Charlie and Memo have some funny interactions and Charlie and her little brother have a few funny scenes but Bumblebee is the true comic genius of the movie. Since Optimus is not around to take up most of the autobot spot light, Bumblebee is able to display a lot more personality because as we learn in the movie the transformers are closer to human than they are to machines.
Now don't worry there was lot's of blowing stuff up and giant robots fighting each other, not as much as the other movies, okay I didn't watch the last night Markie Mark transformers did not really do much for me so maybe that one was 2.5 hours of blowing stuff up. There are less robot fights but they are more meaningful and don't feel like filler. Bumblebee represents through and makes you wonder how the autobots are losing if the youngest autobot is able to fight like this. And since only a Prime can beat a Prime shouldn't the Autobots win because they have Optimus, wait doing it again thinking of plot points, focus on the robots blowing stuff up. Someday I'll try to straighten this out and figure out this transformer timeline, or read someone else that has the answers, because they love the cartoon more than I do. Go Beastwars.
If you want to enjoy a shorter movie of Robots fighting and John Cena actually doing a good job acting this is the movie for you. In the list of WWE wrestlers turned hollywood actors does it go The Rock, The Miz, John Cena, Batista? Maybe, not a fan of Bastista work outside of Drax, but that might be a post for another day.
Less Robots but more personality, wahoo new transformer movies that are not just summer blockbusters. 3.5 stars out of 5. Needed bigger explosions or Cena doing U can't see me, five knuckle shuffles.
Worth the watch if you have a movie subscription.
Also thank you to the two people that read my blog.
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