Bumblebee
Year: 2018
Duration: 114 min.
Country: United States
Directed by: Travis Knight
Screenplay: Christina Hodson
With: Hailee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena
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Since all reviews have something subjective, before reviewing this film I will make you aware of some of my subjectivities.
To begin with, I'm not necessarily a "completer". For me, The Matrix saga begins and ends in the original film, from 1999. The Star Wars saga has three installments, that is, Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). ). Likewise, Indiana Jones has three movies, not four, and Terminator only two. From Star Trek I only saw the one with the whales (1987) and the 2009 reboot. Etc.
Second, I'm not a fan of Transformers. I've never been interested in those characters, I don't read the comics or pee with excitement when they announce the release of a new movie. I have not yet sat down to see the first (from 2007) and much less the sequels, which according to specialized critics are horrifying. They say that the first one is decent, but even so... It's just that in general, this thing about CGI cartoons that slap each other for 120 minutes isn't particularly attractive to me, and I don't like Shia LaBeouf.
But hey, seeing how this new movie/prequel/reboot was planned, I decided to give Bumblebee (2018) a try. To be fair, it's a cross between E.T. (1982) with Herbie Fully Loaded (2005), a girl finds an old beetle in a junkyard, discovers that the car has a life of its own, and they become friends. In E.T., a boy befriends an alien on the run from the authorities and helps him. Bumblebee tells us the original story of a girl who finds a VW in a junkyard, discovers that the car has a life of its own (it's an alien on the run from the authorities), they become friends and decide to help him. So come on.
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Did I like it, or did I not like it? Yes, I do like it. As we've seen, Bumblebee doesn't invent the wheel or win multiple Academy Awards, but it's fine and I liked it. The film spends a loooong time on the characters and interpersonal relationships, and very little time on the Autobots and Decepticons clubbing each other. For that very reason, it stands. If you like the leading lady (Hailee Steinfeld), who thankfully paid attention during acting classes, otherwise it would be 114 minutes of endless nightmare. There are other actors, of course, but usually their scenes tend to be of the "dinner is served" type or something equally brief.
Be careful, if you did not like the two movies that I mentioned in the previous paragraph and you are only interested in movies with CGI figures beating each other from beginning to end, do not watch this movie. Not a Meryl Streep movie either; it's more like one of those movies where you leave your brain in the wardrobe before screening. If you are one of those who tries to follow logic and you wonder, for example, where the motorcycle went or where the spare shirt came from, don't do it and avoid a migraine.
So, well, if you want to see it and if not, no. In another order of ideas. There's a scene where John Cena, who plays a guy with the IQ of an amoeba, says to his superior something like, "Are we really collaborating with these Decepticons? Even the guy realizes that the villains "It's the villains! I could never understand that horrible custom that writers of comics, cartoons, and movies in general have of giving villains those names. There's always one called Atrocitus, or Doctor Doom, and the heroes don't realize it until they It's too late. In the real world, monsters are called Adolf, Osama or Yiya, never "Murderer", "Tiranus" or "Psychopath". How easy life would be then.
-Good morning little girl, I'm Dr. Pedophilus Torturadorius and I'm handing out free coupons for a guided tour of my laboratory… Free candies.
-Eeeeee… No, thanks.
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If I were the image consultant for the Decepticons I would suggest a name change, for example: The Beatles. So if guys come up and say, "Hi, we're The Beatles and we're looking for someone who got away," no one would suspect them. The Beatles are usually relatively harmless. Without going any further, Paul, who is one of The Beatles, would never want to destroy the world or use lightning to turn someone into 10 liters of mucus, like they do here.
I would also tell them to pretend to be more reassuring things instead of muscle cars, for example, a school bus or an ice cream truck.