Fun Fact: During filming in Peru, a Peruvian child showed his Transformers drawings to director Steven Caple Jr., and in response, Caple invited him to the premiere, and paid to renovate his school's roof.

I want to praise this movie for not pulling any Ancient Aliens nonsense. Like the Bay movies were obsessed with Transformers influencing human history, building the pyramids, being the illuminati or whatever, but Primal just shuts it down "We can't take credit for human ingenuity." THANK YOU

13:02 Fun fact: the back bit of the garbage truck in that scene actually *was* a hologram; there was a shot establishing that in an early screening but it got cut for time

While it would've been easy to have Optimus be the unchanging paragon of righteousness this time around, I kind of like that they pretty much just gave him the character arc that fans of the Bayverse insist that version had.

I honestly loved this movie way more than I thought I would. I loved that both noah and Optimus went on the same journey and grew as characters. Not to mention the movie was just fun overall.

The best thing I think I can say about this movie is that it's exactly what I wish the first live action film had been like way back in 2007. Recognisable but still modern designs, likeable human characters, a varied cast of transformers and a simple plot. I still find bumblebee an overall better movie as I liked charlie a fair bit more than Noah and Optimus is still a little too murderer-ee for my liking. Not to mention the first few minutes on cybertron is probably the best live action transformers we'll ever get. Also the Gi joe tease kinda made me laugh more than anything but I'm totally game for it. I don't have much love for that franchise but im aware of its history with transformers.

Snake Eyes Review, Rodney, The Mash Effect, Green Trivia, all of these would eventually lead this movie to have the working title of Blue Harvest

Fun fact: This is the first movie to be filmed on location at Machu Picchu and blessed by a Shaman

I liked this kinda theme they had of Transformers handing down a piece of their power. Instead of Unicron making a buncha zombies, he's actually endowing Scurge with his power. Mirage hands Noah his power.. It's kinda whimsical and fitting, i liked it.

I hope James and mason never stop making content

I feel like Scourge’s mask was his link to Unicron. So once it was off he was vulnerable. But they definitely should’ve made that clear

14:40 I so agree with the voice thing- Dylan was great, but the thing that gets me is that when Bee has a voice, he seems super competent, yet when he’s mute he’s portrayed with half the intelligence

Actually guys, bumblebee has changed forms twice because, at first he changed into a Jeep. And then he changed into a Volkswagen bug. And then he changed into a Camaro at the end of the movie bumblebee. However, if you count his cybertronian form, then that would be four different changes that he has been through

I agree... Out of all of the Transformers movies that have been made, this is definitely one of them.

Transformers : We Gotta Get The Thing is ironically the working title for most of these films until they finally play a game of madlibs to collectively agree on the actual title 1. Spark 2. Matrix 3. Space Bridge 4. Seed 5. Sword? I honestly forgot the plot of Bumblebee >.< but they truly were looking for some macguffin in each film 😂

i was just wondering why scourge didnt use the zombie rust mind control gun on everyone instead of just the bird

The movie is watchable but it is action-hero-trope city central. Pretty much everything i saw in this movie ive seen somewhere else before. Even the whole plot with "young man and his new female friend need to keep this alien artifcat away from the enemies" concept was exactly like the first transformers and probably like at least one of the other sequels that im forgetting about. Its got predicatble deaths and "follow your heart and believe in yourself" dialogue and even a sky beam

I really like this movie, the plot is simple and weaves character motivations into it in a satisfying way that lets you be invested in both simultaneously. Noah and Prime have very strong motivations and characterization and their parallel character development and progression was my favorite part of the movie

I was so excited for the GI Joe tease at the end of the movie, a franchise i know all about thanks to Mr Sunday's review of Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins. A timeless movie and equally perfect review.

I just love that they seemingly pulled from several different transformers cartoons from the past. They pulled from transformers Cybertron with the cyber planet keys and like the jungle planet where the maximals and predicons are from.. They also pulled from all sorts of other little things that I don't have time to type out right now.

John Cena was trying to tell us the whole time. His gear at WrestleMania this year was GI JOE themed

The reason that GI Joe was included in this movie is because in the last episode of Transformers the animated series Cobra Commander appears. They are also both hasbro properties.

Honestly surprised we’re getting a Transformers/GI Joe crossover before a Transformers/Fast and Furious crossover.

I actually agree with the two unicrons theory because rise of the beasts does involve time travel and that would be an amazing reveal

I still think it was such an odd choice to go from Bumble Bee to something that visually feels more Michael Bay than not.

fun little thing, GI Joe and transformers have had intertwined stories in the comics since the late 80s, with cobra even rebuilding megatron in the marvel comic into the way he would appear in Generation 2

Personally I love this movie, this for me is the best live action transformers movie ever made, both Knight and Caple JR have brought the franchise back from the dead because they understand why this franchise was and remains beloved; dynamic characters not humans but the transformers moving forward this franchise is in a good place providing venture stays out creative direction and MBAY never directs or has say over the direction of these movies ever again.

looking forward to the DnD, Power Rangers, Transformers, My little Pony, GI.Joe Cinematic Universe

That gijoe thing caught me so off guard it left me speechless lol

Different transformers usually have their own abilities, i think as an illusionist it makes sense for Mirage to have multiple altmodes

If you want surfboard gorilla, Season 2 of Beast Wars, Optimus Primal's first transmetal form.

I saw rise of the beast in an IMAX theater and the collective eye roll and lip smack when the *SPOILER* GI-JOE tie in came but good on hasbro for taking my money

Gonna need Maso to stand up in the theater once for every new movie to start shouting an explanation for plot armor.

Fun fact: Filming took place in Peru. The country gave its name to a flower, Scillia Peruviana. The production was filmed in secret under the name Blue Harvest after the plant's distinctive blue leaves

Even though this Optimus is just as aggressive as Bayverse Prime at least this time round they talk about it for a fair bit about why and that he’s experienced so much loss and blames himself for the stranding them on earth that he has a right to be that way.

Probably my favourite part is that the decepticons(or terrorcons) actually HAVE colour

27:43 It's been done in the comics before, apparently. And Hasbro even had a huge crossover story of Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., Rom the Space Knight, Micronauts and Action Man.

For the last ten minutes of this video, all I could think of was Dan Larson from Secret Galaxy saying "Hasbro: Until All Are One"

peter dinklage doing his best steve blum impression

James is so old, he was around for the invention of all of these brands

Personally I think it would be more appropriate if GI-Joe showed up at the end of the Barbie movie.

I thought the guy at the end was going to say Sector 7 and then the card🤯 I just wanted Bumblebee to not get stabbed in a movie but it seems I'll have to keep waiting

What if the GI Joes get their guns from a weapon manufacturer called Nerf?

The line that took me out was when wheeljack pulled up and someone said a throwaway line about his power steering being loose. Wheeljack is a VW Kombi, a south american one so its hard to pinpoint what model year, but it is impossible if not very unlikely that any Minibus of that generation had power steering. Just a dumb gripe that shows the writers aren't car people. Other than that, I enjoyed the film.

I thought the reveal at the end was that they had found the Axalon. There was some sort of alien looking ship on the left in that big secret room.

The Transformers teams up with Al Qaeda is one of the funniest things I've ever heard

Fun fact: the original creators of the Terrorcons had many squabbles over the overall design of the logo in order to differentiate between deceptions and other Transformers, leading to the creators spending weeks in the jungle looking at the feeding and eating habits of jungle creatures. They found that after eating certain plants were consumed, certain apes would pick seeds out and leave the seeds in the same area of the habitat. A few weeks after the 'planting' of these seeds and the gathering of plants and vegetables and the lack of colors that come naturally on planets, it was decided to use the filming title of Blue Harvest while in pre production..

I loved this movie. It’s for sure not a prequel though, how can the Autobots crash land between 2007-2010 if we see them all stuck on Earth from 1987-1994. Plus the Unicron things and generally the existence of these characters at all

I hope they are going the idw route and we'll finally get a live action M.A.S.K film. It'll make a 40 year old kids dream come true

In Beast Wars (Called "Beasties" sometimes cuz of some weird censorship I dunno), they invented something called "Stasis Lock", which made Transformers verrrry hard to kill. Basically anything could happen to them, including getting ripped apart, but as long as their onboard AI can initiate "Stasis Lock" their "Spark" won't escape their chassis, which is ultimately what kills a Transformers. When in Stasis Lock a Transformer can't move until they're put back together. A Transformer can override Stasis Lock in order to keep functioning during a crisis, however doing so they'll risk not being able to initiate Stasis Lock when they need to and if they take too much damage, even if they're in one piece - their Spark will leave their chassis and they die. It's still pretty arbitrary when their AI can just initiate Stasis Lock. Some Transformers get decapitated and I can't imagine they had a conversation with their onboard AI before the fact but obviously SL was initiated cuz they're put together and fine later. I haven't seen the movie (YET), but as for the Ape transformer with the surfboard, I know that when the Maximals and Predicons first landed on earth they took on animal forms that looked like the animals on the planet, but later in the series an event happened that gave most of the active Transformers there "Transmetal" bodies. This was obviously Hasbro wanting to sell kids more toys, but the Transmetal bodies were more powerful and they did not look like robots disguised as animals anymore. They were robots who transformed into robotic-looking animals. Optimus Primal's new Transmetal robot form came with a flight mode that included flying around on a surfboard. So maybe that's the inspiration for whatever this new guy is in the movie.

Have to add, the fact that Anthony Ramos makes hot boxes for cable tvs is so 90s nyc.

Great information as always, thank you. I enjoy your content.

The thing about GI Joe is that the movies always focus too much on the ninja and sci-fi stuff. I’d like to see a more grounded team, even if they’re fighting against wild stuff like Toxo-Zombies and Cobra-La. But GI Joe stories don’t need to be big. Top Gun: Maverick was a perfect GI Joe movie.

“It’s transformin time” - Optimus Prime

My beast do be rising

I get the feeling Optimus is going to develop into the more traditional noble leader in future movies and move away from being an absolute psychopath.

I’ll give the whole energon reviving bumblee thing a pass just for that comeback montage 😂 flipping epic

Loved it, simple but it had to be cause......it is a reboot, so fun movie, worth the watch, hoping when they do the new decepticons it gets more plot based, liked mirage and primal alot

Was Ape Link just a cheap way to have a sacrificial Maximal without investing in designing Rattrap, Dinobot or Tigertron?

Fun movie with a fairly simple plot, but man was the experience ruined because some kid was just straight up walking around going through aisles and talking the entire movie 😕. That ending through completely caught me off guard and I'm very interested to see where they go with it.

They went from like, besides the flashback to cybertron and two bots that die at the beginning of the film, 3 transformers in the first one, nice snd simple. Bumblebee vs. Teo deceptions. What fucking genius decided. Yeah for the next one we have a wholr team of autobots, a dmall team of maximals, going up against a couple bad guys with a bunch of fodder enemies.

Honestly, I thought it was pretty cool that Scourge for the combination of two different versions, the original Herald of unicron and the robots in disguise evil Optimus clone look alike black truck

Something about seeing Peru in such a blockbuster film was kinda surreal ngl

Thank you for promosing to do Kangaroo Jack.

I guess I'll be the first to say it (as someone who LOVES Bumblebee) but 'Bumblebee' is literally Sam and Bee's relationship from the first movie with a different skin and set in the 80's. Also, it has the same problem any of the other movies have, more human than actual Transformer. ROTB has the best blend of both out of all the movies and, apparently, Transformers One is supposed to be ONLY Transformers and coming out next year

I do hope next time prime will go back to being the strong u derstanding but still merciful leader No overly brutal kills no more threats no more being all angry and rude I do also wonder if the fact that they have energon now will effect the future with things like designs and equipment and… idk something cool could happen for the bots with all that

1. ROTB is a sequel to Bumblebee, but is a reboot. 2.Orion Pax and Optimus Prime are the same person. Elita 1 is likely who you were referring to as his “mate”.

When Bumble Bee died I thought that he was going to come back as Gold Bug, like what happened in the G1 cartoons.

Let’s hope the next one can pull off a little better action and more lived in environments. The Bay films do have that on the prequels. Overall pretty damn good Transformers movie. 8.5/10

Surely a more apt spin-off/crossover would have been MASK. At least that's about transforming vehicles and people firing giant sky lasers out their faces.

My thing is that the Maximals didn't Maximal enough.

It was a fun movie. More Beast Wars Characters!!!

The plot is simple, they need to stop the Witness from using the Radial Mast to form a connection with The Veil

Haven't seen this channel in a while and when I see it again it reviews one of my fav movies of 2023

My buddy did a very audible “What?” in the theater when the reveal at the end happened.

you guys make my night

You can tell they really took into account how well people responded to the BumbleBee movie by *spoiler* ing BumbleBee almost immediately. At least it was a refreshing change from it being Prime, and they even had two Primes this time around so you know it took a lot of restraint.

I can't wait for the Transformers X Dungeons & Dragons movie where they team up to find the, uh thing, that will destroy the universe if they don't find it, probably.

I really liked this one the thing that sticker out most was OJ

There have been so many comic book crossovers with Transformers and GI Joe I'm surprised it took this long.

Please do a Caravan of Garbage on Kangaroo Jack!!! It’s set in Australia!!! It just makes sense!!!

I hope this movie does do well. I haven’t gotten to see it yet but I really want to

I definitely think this movie's human dialogue was pretty tense and cheesy. It flows strangely to me. There were times where i kinda rolled my eyes at just how silly and unrealistic the dialogue was, but i honesly got over it. It's a good movie overall, to the point and simple.

The need for death in these films doesn't elevate the stakes or really ever give a satisfying (named character death payoff. Whilst the fight choreography was better (other than the staring in the distance scenes) the deaths just felt to easy. They were like we can defeat them together, but they've been together the whole movie? You lost 2 and now your lust for blood makes you op? I did love the film but it still definitely had problems that I hope can be addressed. Fights need to feel earned when you level your villains so highly, otherwise it doesn't hold any weight imo

Trying to somehow shove G.I. Joe into this franchise is going to cause it to fail. Focus on what's actually supposed to be going on within the MAIN continuity. Just because Marvel succeeded (for the most part) in making a connected universe doesn't mean every franchise needs one. Just food for thought.

Currently my 2nd favorite movie of the year, afyer spiderverse, but it was *very* close. The only thing that pushed it below was the iron man suit at the end. That was a little dumb. I would have also added one line, when the human was about to destroy the key. He should have brought up that destroying it saves *Every planet* not just earth. Makes it less selfish, and would also be emotinally good. But i suppose were not supposed to think about that😂 Cant express how much i love the terracons being heralds of unicron and pure evil. With the (so powerful hes numb) leader, the brute who barely notices damage, and the sadistic female👌

13:17 i believe in some continuities, they can scan other vechicles and change to modes that are similar to their bodies

I'm looking forward to the next movie in the Hasbro Cinematic Universe (HCU)

forgot this movie or the sequel or the reveal or any spinoffs…. i think this means we are FINALLY going to get a snakeeyes episode

You guys should do a caravan of garbage on Superman on Trial. It’s a nice hour long audio drama with some cool trivia about it.

I found the movie to have some issues but a huge step in the right direction for the franchise as a whole. I was hyped by the GIJOE thing. I really enjoy those first two GIJOE movies.

How have they not reviewed the Alien films yet? Omg Alien resurrection would be a brilliant video😂😂

While yes this is a "go get the thing" movie, they actually tie character motivations into why they want the thing. You got noah who wants the thing because he doesn't trust that they'll be able to keep it safe so he wants to get rid of it, and then you have prime who has a bunch of reasons why it's really important to him that he wants to get back to cybertron and the key will help him with that

I want a t shirt with a cutout of James' face and underneath "...or whateva'"

For my money, I think this is the best live action transformers movie, he just gets the feel and tone of what transformers should be right

Thank you gentlemen!

I know this is what you do for you channel, but I feel way to many people get too nitpicky with some of the critiques. I sat through this movie and loved every second of it.

I'm pretty sure the only reason Mirage can can through so many different vehicles is either because he's scanned multiple and keeps the on him, or it's a 'mirage' I don't get why bumblebee does it though, that was weird. I think Optimus does it too where at the start he didn't have that big grill thing and then later he does.

I got goosebumps several times in this. Havent had that in a while.. probrally top gun 2 was the kast time

Surfboard Gorilla, coming summer 24. Starring the voices of Seth Rogan and Johah Hill overlayed one another.