While fans of the live-action Transformers series have been waiting five years for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — the previous entry, Bumblebee, was met with unexpectedly positive reviews in 2018 — fans of Beast Wars: Transformers having been waiting for a big screen adaptation of the series since the first Transformers movie debuted back in 2007.
Rise of the Beasts promised to bring the Maximals, the heroic faction of the Beast Wars series into the live-action fold.
While fans of the film franchise may be satisfied by the Rise of the Beasts’ merging of Michael Bay-style action with the heart of Bumblebee, fans of Beast Wars are sure to be disappointed by the film’s failure to fully realize the complex characters it adapts from the show.
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