" Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" was just unleashed on Jby Paramount Picture as the seventh installment in the $5 billion franchise, unspooling in the mid-1990s seven years after the events in 2018's "Bumblebee." This latest standalone sequel does a mediocre job in striking a globe-trotting balance between its cliched story, glacially-paced character arcs and metal-bashing CGI FX.Ī group of robots, some of which are shaped like animalsĭirected by Steven Caple Jr. But that's exactly what fans are ravenous for when digesting a "Transformers" blockbuster in the theater while munching a $9 bag of popcorn and sipping a $7 soda. To be blunt, most Hollywood cinematic adaptations of Hasbro's sentient robots in disguise, " The Transformers," have been calamitous affairs highlighted by wildly convoluted plotting and rock 'em sock 'em action sequences that assault the senses in a blur of CGI punctuated by a barrage of blaring explosions. Not every franchise from our childhoods needs to be rebooted. Ron Perlman voices Optimus Primal in "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts"
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