Imagine, if you can, a “Transformers” movie in which the plot is coherent, the robots feel like characters (as opposed to gleaming CG creations), and the action is staged and edited clearly enough to follow.
After five rock ’em, sock ’em blockbuster features, it has become clear that audiences would never get such a film as long as Michael Bay occupied the director’s chair, and though he should certainly be credited for proving that a Hasbro toy line could support a massive global franchise, “Bumblebee” is basically the movie that fans of the 1980s animated series wanted all along.The fact that it was helmed by an animation native — that would be “Kubo” director, and CEO of Laika studios, Travis Knight — and conceived as an origin story, rather than a reboot, for one of the franchise’s most popular Autobots (the good-guy robots that transform themselves into cars) suggests
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