Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - Movie Review

Chris Stuckmann reviews Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, starring Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Liza Koshy, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Pete Davidson. Directed by Steven Caple Jr.

[Rembreiker_lychec]

Peter Cullen to Transformers is like Stan Lee to Marvel, he deserves to be in a featurette. Peter Cullen is in his 80s, but is still giving it his all as Optimus Prime! Absolute Legend!

[BatAmerica]

After Transformers: The Last Knight, it is refreshing to see blockbusters that have fun with their premise instead of using it as a dower studio checklist. Additionally, Transformers Prime has an underrated direct-to-video animated film that is an epilogue to that excellent series.

[keptcol]

Kudos to Chris for shouting out "Reboot" near the beginning of this review. It's one of the most overlooked, yet groundbreaking animated shows of all time.

[DangerVille]

I hope it does well because I want to see more Beast Wars characters return. The fact Dinobot isn’t here is a crime!

[PlayerOne.StartGame]

For those of you who weren't around to appreciate Beast Wars back in the 90's, seeing Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal in the same scene is absolutely mind-blowing and means everything to us.

[iodaspark]

Honest movie review!
It was highly entertaining; and what's more important is that it didn't feel 'cluttered' for non-TF fans who could warm up to the storyline somewhat seamlessly.
Keep the passion burning! 🤩

[wajahatrashid]

Watching Chris make a movie, being appreciative of his audience is so heartwarming. As someone who has been watching Chris for years, I hope he succeeds as a film maker. God speed man

[TheWhovinerd-]

Just watched this movie and absolutely loved it. Mirage was probably my favourite character out of them all, I found him to be very funny and entertaining. I was actually sad when I thought the character was going to die.
Loved all the references to the 90s and even references to G1. The tie in to G.I. Joe was definitely a nice callback to the marvel comics. This might mean that the military we see work with the transformers will be the joes.
Could this perhaps be Hasbros attempt to relaunch the joes into live action if so I’m all for it.
My only complaints with the movie were we needed more scenes of the maximals and the Terrorcons. I’d have loved Unicron to have saved scourge somehow at the last minute so we could see him again.

[Eva-jyqupur]

Hearing that the characters are treated with a lot more care makes me all the more excited to see the film this week. Its been a while since the franchise properly respected the characters, so I'm glad this film is giving the Transformers their proper and well deserved screentime

[Dreadjaws]

That ending, tho. I'm surprised you didn't mention it (without spoiling it, of course). I was caught by surprise by it, and it made me quite excited for the future of this franchise.

[Hectorferjr]

Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon grossed $1.136 billion worldwide, the highest-grossing movie in the franchise to date.

[MandMBass]

I loved Beast Wars when it first came out and am just now revisiting it on Tubi, and you're absolutely correct. If you can get past the dated computer animation, the stories, themes, characters and voice acting were all SO good. I'd love to see a BW-exclusive live action film featuring the story arc from the show.

[marcososa]

This is one of the reasons why I love Chris Stuckman’s reviews. He’s honest, and understands what to expect from films like transformers, like Marvel, DC, Anime, etc

[retsekoj]

Never thought I'd say this. This was the best transformers in the series. I hope what they promise really comes thru.

[dazanator]

I Hope your movie is received well Chris and you had fun making it. It's always a major perspective change when making a film, you begin to respect the end credits more as you realize the amount of work and people it takes to create the final production.

Also Used to love beast wars had it on VHS as a kid as well as other Transformers stuff, hopefully, they begin to steer the movies in a positive direction.

[Capt.Cooking]

Just saw the movie, it was AMAZING. As a transformers fan I'm so happy with the whole movie. Also the ending has a really shocking surprise

[PokémonCoordinatorMare]

One thing I'm very intrigued by is the idea of seeing Optimus really learn to work with humanity. The line in the trailer "you brought a human here?!" gives off the impression that one, he isn't impressed by us and two, he didn't want to work with humans. We always see him as this wise sage leader, who while NEW to how things work on Earth, is still very much like....a dad figure to the humans in his team. He seems to have an established relationship with humanity in almost every iteration of Transformers even in _Age of Extinction_ he has human allies.

This is even seen in Transformers Prime and Animated where the humans look up to him. Here it seems that Prime will have to learn how to maneuver working with humanity and all our limitations that come with us. I wonder what his relationship with Noah will be like. Cause it seems to be a bit familiar to his starting point with Cade Yeager, where they trust each other only out of necessity then it forges into something more. And that's just utterly fascinating to me. Do I prefer the OP that is just this innate leader who seems to have all the answers, who will do whatever it takes to protect his own and humanity from Megatron's wrath? Do I prefer Dadimus Prime? Well yeah of course. But I'm always open to new interpretations of the character. I like what they did with him in the War for Cybertron series too.

GOD I hope the score is as good as the Bay films. Say what you will about those movies but the CGI (especially in the first) and the SCORE is just stunning. Steve Jablonsky should've gotten SEVERAL Oscars for his work.

[Gamersauce]

Pete Davidson really killed it as Mirage. By far one of the best characters of the movie, really made me as an audience member, care about Mirage.

[robertwild]

I've been loving all the reviews you've been putting out lately Chris! I also hope your movie is coming along well, I can't wait 🙂

[someOldBaldguy]

Congrats on Shelby Oaks Chris. Can't wait to see what you give us! Looking so forward to it and I hope your vision is fulfilled above and beyond expectations. Got a lot of faith in you.