Movie Review - (TF6) Transformers Bumblebee

[GoktimusPrime]

When I heard about the ratings change I was worried we wouldn't see squelching of human flesh beings, but Dropkicks 'make a human exploding liquid' gun is frigging awesome

Heh, agreed. It's a funny looking yet really-horrific-when-you-think-about-it kind of weapon.

I loved Shatter, and do hope she can be revived for a future movie. Megs was ad infinitum. She's adorably psychopathic, and I want a studio series deluxe or Voyager toy of her in jet mode.

I love Shatter too, but I feel that it's better than they don't bring her back. Besides, who knows? Maybe they can give us even cooler villains in the future.

But how awesome is it that we actually have likable Decepticon characters in a live action Transformers film?! More likable than most Autobots in Bayformers! I cared more about Shatter's demise than I did about Quejack in DOTM.

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Bumblebee's fist pump is obviously in reference to The Breakfast Club which, of course, starred Judd Nelson. But one interesting thing that my daughter mentioned to me yesterday, as a person with no knowledge of The Breakfast Club but who has seen TFTM... she thinks that Bumblebee's fist pump is a reference to this:

[Ralph Wiggum]

Just saw the movie, had some time to kill in Singapore before my flight so decided to see it.

Pretty much shits all over the Michael Bay movies, which admittedly isn’t that hard. No ridiculous slow-mos or zoomy camera action. A focus on character and story. And FINALLY no ridiculous cube/sunkiller/crashed spaceship/seed/knights/unicron trope.

I’d be happy for this to be a reboot, after the dogs breakfast of everything after TF2007.

On a side note, Toys R Us are still around in Singapore however the store I usually went to massively downsized to a much smaller store 1/8th its normal size.

[GoktimusPrime]

Differences between the test screening and final version of Bumblebee -- seems to indicate that Bumblebee was intended to be a more definitive prequel for Bayformers but was later changed to be a reboot. These tend to be decisions from the studio rather than the director, but it does explain why the continuity is rather ambiguous, as well as Jack Burn's hatred towards Bumblebee. The final cut still explains it as him being nearly killed during the training exercise and seeing how dangerous Cybertronians can be, but the original version gave Burns more gravitas. But apparently the test audience didn't respond as well to a hard-core John Cena so they made him more light-hearted, and a lot of people have said that some of the funniest lines have come from Burns.

I haven't bought a special edition of a Transformers film since 2007 (I've purchased bare bone versions of the sequels), but this makes me want to get the bonus special feature DVD. Hopefully it will show some of these deleted scenes, especially the one of a G1-style Megatron frozen in ice!

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