The first reactions the latest outing in the Transformers franchise, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, have now emerged, and lucky audience members have hailed it as one of the best installments in the series by far. Taking to social media following early screenings of the movie, many have compared Transformers: Rise of the Beasts to both 2018’s Bumblebee and Michael Bay’s beloved first effort back in 2007. Check out what viewers had to say below...
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will drop audiences into Brooklyn in the 1990s, bringing a lot of elements from the cherished Beast Wars animated series including the Maximals and the Predacons into the live action fray. And it sounds like the 90s setting, and the soundtrack that has come with it, are one of the best things about the latest Transformers adventure.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts “plays like the ultimate Saturday morning cartoon,” reads another early reaction. A description that sounds like the perfect direction for a Transformers movie. Another adds that the sequel “delivers one of the better and more coherent installments in the franchise,” with many finding Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson's performance to be the standout.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Is Due to Land in Theaters Next Month
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on a ‘90s globetrotting adventure and picks up in the year 1994. The latest outing follows a pair of human archeologists from Brooklyn who come into an ancient conflict through a globe-trotting adventure with the Autobots that ties in with three factions of the Transformers race: the Maximals, the Predacons and the Terrorcons.
Directed by Steven Caple Jr., Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be led by Godzilla: King of the Monsters and In the Heights star Anthony Ramos alongside Project Power and Judas and the Black Messiah star Dominique Fishback. The rest of the cast includes Lauren Vélez (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), rapper Tobe Nwigwe, and Transformers icon Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime.
Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) will join the franchise as Airazor alongside Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island, The Suicide Squad) as Mirage, Liza Koshy (Work It, The Ghost and Molly McGee) as Arcee; Cristo Fernández (Ted Lasso) as Wheeljack, John DiMaggio (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Futurama) as both Stratosphere and Transit, David Sobolov (Bumblebee, The Flash) as Rhinox and Battletrap, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose, tick, tick... BOOM!) as Nightbird, Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, Avengers: Infinity War) as Scourge, and Hellboy star Ron Perlman as Optimus Primal, the leader of the Maximals.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is scheduled to be released on June 9, 2023, by Paramount Pictures.