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Bumblebee

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On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee the Autobot seeks refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. Charlie, on the brink of turning 18 years old and trying to find her place in the world, soon discovers the battle-scarred and broken Bumblebee. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns that this is no ordinary yellow Volkswagen.
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Bumblebee proves it's possible to bring fun and a sense of wonder back to a bloated blockbuster franchise -- and sets up its own slate of sequels in the bargain.

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Ben Sachs Chicago Reader 02/21/2020
The film presents late-80s America so fetishistically that it feels at times like a follow-up to Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher (2014), and its recycling of 80s teen-movie cliches are also weirdly reverential. Go to Full Review
Tim Cogshell FilmWeek (LAist) 09/13/2019
Energetic and a whole lot of fun. Go to Full Review
Stephen Romei The Australian 01/02/2019
3.5/5
Bumblebee is the sort of Transformers movie I want to watch. It surprised me in a decidedly non-automated way. Go to Full Review
Justin Kim Loud and Clear Reviews Jan 6
4/5
Bumblebee is old fashioned in many respects, but it makes up for it by scaling down bombastic action in favor of emotion and character. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 10/08/2024
3/5
…Bumblebee is a cute film, not as loud or bombastic as the other Transfomers movies, and actually kind of small and charming in comparison… Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/19/2022
3.5/5
“Bumblebee” is a good spin-off that easily stands on its own unique merits. Go to Full Review
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Hugo N 09/28/2024 If you are a Transformers fan, you must watch it! See more Murtaza A 11/26/2021 Michael Bay is a great director, but he doesn't care about story development or character relationships. Enjoyed what Travis Knight did so far. Time for a new roll-out! See more Austin L Nov 16 Nearly 7 years later and it's still the best live action Transformers movie. I honestly cannot picture this movie without Hailee Steinfeld's chemistry with the title character when she portrayed Charlie Watson and honestly if it was Rachel Ziegler I bail out. See more Nim M Nov 14 Just watched again after a few years and still enjoy. Has the nostalgia of watching as a kid in the 80s. Bumblebee has personality and excited to see the original transformer characters as what they were. Shame they didn't continue the series in this format. See more Lukas G Nov 5 Wow, they actually did it. They gave the characters character depth. Bravo! This movie is really good, 50 times better than all 5 Bay movies COMBINED. Finally. See more Nate C Nov 5 2 stars only for the music. So corny. More of a "feel good" movie for teens or children than an action flick. Like others who hated it, there are too many predictably cliché moments. Character development is so lame, seriously seems like a child wrote the movie. Dont watch as a mature adult you'll just waste your time. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee the Autobot seeks refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. Charlie, on the brink of turning 18 years old and trying to find her place in the world, soon discovers the battle-scarred and broken Bumblebee. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns that this is no ordinary yellow Volkswagen.
Director
Travis Knight
Producer
Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy, Michael Bay, Mark Vahradian
Screenwriter
Christina Hodson
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Tencent Pictures, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Tom DeSanto/Don Murphy, Bay Films, Allspark Pictures
Rating
PG-13 (Sci-Fi Action Violence)
Genre
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 21, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 19, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$127.2M
Runtime
1h 54m
Sound Mix
DTS, Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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