'Bumblebee', the final blockbuster

The recently released 'Bumblebee' ends, as a spin-off, the 'Transformers' saga after five ordinary films by Michael Bay.

In June 2009 premiered Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, first sequel to Transformers (2007). The director Michael Bay explained then that the second film was more epic than the first. Transformers had cost 130 million euros and in the first weekend in the US had already raised half. The second film had a budget of 175M € and only three months after its premiere accumulated around the world a whopping 730 million euros of revenue. Not bad at all!

The plot is easy to understand: two races of giant robots coming from the planet Cybertron, the decepticons and the most benevolent autobots, face each other on Earth seen with the atonic eyes of teenagers Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf. Fox disappeared in the third one, Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Mark Wahlberg, in the role of a more mature mechanic, replaced LaBeouf in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and in the last one Transformers: The Last Knight (2017).

As in the stories of superheroes, different parallel universes of the franchise have been created, from a dozen new animated series to the recently released eighties spin-off Bumblebee, starring the mutated autobot Bumblebee, now as a cute old yellow 1967 Volkswagen Beetle. The new movie of the "Transformers" saga puts in order everything; chaos, meaningless explosions and confusing robot fights are replaced by a story with a well-developed plot. In "Bumblebee" everything is simpler.