2018 · action · adventure · sci-fi
Bumblebee
Directed by Travis Knight1h 54m2018
On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary yellow VW bug.
Our read: Bumblebee (2018) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Watching Bumblebee tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Bumblebee feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want sweet eighties nostalgia and robot friendship without usual Transformers chaos.”
Skip it tonight — You hate teen coming-of-age beats wedged into a franchise spin-off.
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