Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts is a bungle in the jungle

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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (PG13) 127 minutes, opens on Thursday 2 stars The story: It is the 1990s and a faction of the Transformers metallic creatures – known as the Maximals – is hiding on Earth disguised as animals, after its...

So, naturally, Hollywood decided that the next movie needed a Bumblebee character-driven approach, but with Bay-style battle action every 20 minutes, culminating in all-out war in the final act.PHOTO: UIPThis reviewer gets a migraine from the din and also thinks it is easy to pad out 120 minutes with computer-generated mayhem. Any good done with the human storyline is cancelled out when the missiles start flying.

But the din is why this movie exists. This is, after all, based on a 1990s cartoon about metallic beings smashing one another to a pulp. The television shows were inspired by toys that kids played with by – you guessed it – smashing them against one another. This movie, directed by Steven Caple Jr, mimics the cartoon and the child’s mode of play in the most head-crushingly repetitive way.

Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts has cool metal aliens in the jungle that look like a gorilla, falcon and cheetah.You would think that having Transformers who look like animals would make the fights more interesting. But each alien seems to have a body part that becomes a gun. Every battle descends into the same shoot-out, save for the few armed with something other than a blaster or missile launcher.Cool metal aliens in the jungle that look like a gorilla, falcon and cheetah? Yes.

 

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