While finally agreeing to a friend’s request to steal an expensive car for the money, Noah accidentally ends up stealing a Transformer named Mirage (a smart-mouthed Porsche voiced by Pete Davidson), who is called to action by Transformer OG Autobot Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen). Meanwhile on Earth, a young man named Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos, In the Heights), who is good with machines, is trying to keep his Brooklyn household together with the help of his hard-working mother (Luna Lauren Velez) and his little brother Kris (Dean Scott Vazquez), who is sickly and in desperate need of prolonged medical attention.
His primary harbinger is a deadly robot named Scourge (Peter Dinklage), who has devoted his existence to tracking down the Maximals and retrieving this key for his master. Set in 1994 (seven years after Bumblebee), Rise of the Beasts introduces us to robot animal creatures known as Maximals, whose mission in life is to protect a sacred key that can open up portals to every corner of the universe, making it possible for a planet-eating/-sized villain named Unicron (voiced by Colman Domingo) to destroy as many worlds as he can reach. ( Creed II) and a collection of period hip-hop tracks that will have you singing along while you engage with scene after scene of quality action sequences. The new film also has a great new director in Steven Caple Jr. Lo and behold, it’s follow-up, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts has a similar running time of about two hours (most of the other Transformers film are pushing two-and-a-half hours in length) and concentrates on a single mission, while introducing a handful of new giant robot characters and a couple of excellent humans as well. For the Transformers universe, the previous film, 2018’s Bumblebee (set in 1987), is the best of the bunch, in large part because of a winning cast (that included Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena) and a tighter, more focused screenplay. Sometimes, a gifted director, a shorter runtime, and a unstoppable period soundtrack is all you need to pivot a franchise in the right direction.
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