The Sting Of Bumblebee

Good day my friends hope you are doing well and are having a great day! If you are not than I hope it gets better. There is something about are bad days that just make us want to quit! To shut ourselves down from life and not even try anymore, to just run through the motions. I have felt that way on many occasions when things happen that break you down. And believe me none of us are immune to it! The worst is when you try and try millions of times over giving your all but it seems that you just can’t win and someone else always gets the reward. We feel that we were on the right track but somehow always seem to be a second choice or an afterthought. We start out in the spotlight but than later on we become not quite good enough. But believe me those feelings pass! In time they go away! It may take a while but they do subside and the best thing for those are good friends to help. The very best of friends can help lift you up when everything seems all wrong! Sorry I just felt that this intro was best for my lead in to the latest movie review. This week I am giving you a second movie review. That movie being Bumblebee the prequel in the highly popular Transformers franchise. The movie stars Hailee Steinfeld(Pitch Perfect 2) as Charlie, and John Cena(Daddy’s Home 2) as Agent Burns. So lets see just see if this prequel is drivable or just belongs on the scrap heap!

On Cybertron the great war between the Autobots and the Decepticons continues rage on! With defeat imminent the great Autobot leader Optimus Prime orders his troops to evacuate the planet and scatter across the galaxy. He charges one of his most loyal and efficient soldiers B-127 to go to Earth, set up a new home base for the Autobots and to also be the planets protector against the Decepticons. He crash lands on earth right in the middle of a training exercise for a secret government agency known as Sector 7 who monitors extraterrestrial activity on Earth. Lieutenant Jack Burns(Cena) believes him to be hostile after a battle with a Decepticon who tries to kill him but damages B-127’s voice box instead. In bad shape B-127 memory cells are depleting fast and before they do he transforms into a Volkswagon beetle that eventually finds its way to a salvage yard where he is found by Charlie(Stienfeld) a young woman who has just turned 18. Charlie is looking for an escape from the small California town she lives in with mother, stepfather Ron and brother Otis. Charlie is a loner who has shut herself down ever since her father died of a heart attack years earlier. She would spend most of her time working on the old Corvette in the garage and going to work at the amusement park. But her life is about to change when she brings her new car home and soon discovers that it is a alien robot. After a brief adjustment period she gets to know B-127 and even gives him the name Bumblebee. The two become the best of friends with Charlie helping him find his voice and her getting close to someone again. But while this all happening two Decepticons are on the hunt for Bumblebee even duping Sector 7 into helping find him so they can find the Autobot base and bring down their army to take control of the planet. So with the government on their tails it is up to Bumblebee and Charlie to stop the Decepticons and save the planet.

So how does that sound to you? Sounds pretty decent hey? Yeah I know it is pretty much the basis of almost everyone of the Transformers movies. But this one was a bit more heartfelt and sweet without all the Michael Bay overdone action sequences. This one actually had a pretty decent story and kind of changed a few things to the origins of Bumblebee. It had the fell of the old 80’s cartoon which was pretty cool and kind of made me feel like a kid again. There was also tons of 80’s music to add to the nostalgia and made me wish I was back in that time again! The acting was okay and had some fare performances but I still think that John Cena really needs to take acting lessons as his performance was the weakest. All in all a pretty fun and nostalgic movie which recaptures the heart of what made Transformers so good in the 1980’s. That’s why I am giving this movie a 7.3 on the Justin Scale Of Movies and putting it on my Pick-It List of movies to see in the theater. That’s a wrap here for me my friends on my latest movie review! Until next time remember to save me a good seat and keep that popcorn freshly popped because I will see you again at the movies.