Bumblebee (film)

***Bumblebee*** is the sixth movie in the live-action film series. A "reset" of the film series as a whole, *Bumblebee* acts as a prequel and Soft Reboot to the previous four movies (Excludes TLK), albeit taking some liberties with continuity. The film is directed by Travis Knight rather than Michael Bay, written by newcomer Christina Hodson, and produced on a far lower budget of around $100-137 million USD. The film was released in the US on December 21, 2018.

When Bumblebee is sent to Earth to establish a base for the Autobots, he finds himself hunted by both Sector Seven and the Decepticons. With his memory and voice lost in battle, he is found by Charlie Watson, a young woman in search of a direction in life. The pair work together to try to discover who Bumblebee is and why he's on Earth, but ultimately they'll find themselves with the fate of the planet in their hands.

The film was praised for its direction, story, lighter tone, performances, voice acting, action sequences, visual effects, and faithfulness to the 1980s Transformers show.

## Plot

On the planet Cybertron, the Autobot resistance, led by Optimus Prime, is on the verge of losing the civil war against the Decepticons, and prepares to evacuate the planet. A Decepticon force, led by Starscream, Soundwave, and Shockwave, intercepts them during the evacuation, and Optimus sends Autobot scout B-127 to Earth in an escape pod, in order to set up a base of operations where the Autobots can regroup. B-127 reaches Earth and crash-lands in California, disrupting a training exercise by Sector 7, a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial activity on Earth. Colonel Jack Burns presumes B-127 to be a hostile invader and orders his men to attack. B-127 scans a Willys MB jeep and flees to a mine, where he is ambushed by Decepticon Seeker Blitzwing. When B-127 refuses to reveal Optimus's whereabouts, Blitzwing tears out his voice box and damages his memory core; yet B-127 stabs and destroys Blitzwing with one of his own missiles. B-127 flees from the soldiers, scans a nearby 1967 Volkswagen Beetle and collapses from his injuries.

In 1987, teenager Charlie Watson is emotionally traumatized by the death of her father, and resentful of her mother Sally’s new boyfriend Ron. Charlie finds a yellow Volkswagen Beetle in a scrapyard belonging to Hank, who gives it to her as an 18th-birthday present. When trying to start it, Charlie unknowingly activates a homing signal that is detected by Decepticons Shatter and Dropkick as they interrogate and slice down Cliffjumper on one of Saturn's moons. The Decepticons head to Earth, and acquire Earth vehicle forms. They meet Sector 7, pretending to be peacekeepers, and persuade them to help capture B-127, despite Burns' objections.

While Charlie attempts to fix the Beetle, it transforms into B-127, whom she befriends and nicknames "Bumblebee". She then unintentionally unlocks a message from Optimus urging Bumblebee to defend Earth in the other Autobots’ absence, which restores some of his memories. They are discovered by Charlie's neighbor Memo, who agrees to protect their secret due to his feelings for Charlie, and Bumblebee begins using songs from the radio to communicate. Left alone, Bumblebee accidentally destroys Charlie's home and causes an energy spike that attracts Sector 7's attention. When Sally blames Charlie for the destruction, Charlie finally expresses her pain over her father's death and angrily leaves with Bumblebee and Memo, only to be intercepted by Sector 7 and the Decepticons. Bumblebee is captured while Charlie and Memo are returned home.

Charlie convinces her brother Otis to cover for her and Memo as they follow Burns to the Sector 7 outpost where Bumblebee is being held. Shatter and Dropkick torture Bumblebee and activate the message from Optimus, discovering that the Autobots are coming to Earth. They shoot and leave Bumblebee for dead after revealing their plan to bring the rest of the Decepticons to Earth. After alerting Burns to the truth about the Decepticons, Dr. Powell is killed by Dropkick.

Charlie electroshocks Bumblebee back to life, restoring his memories, causing him to attack and drive off Burns' obstruction. After escaping the pursuing military with the help of Memo and her family, Charlie and Bumblebee attempt to prevent the Decepticons from contacting Cybertron using a radio tower at a nearby harbor. Shatter shoots down Burns' helicopter when he also tries to intervene, but he is saved by Bumblebee. Bumblebee binds Dropkick with a chain, and rips him apart when he transforms. Charlie deactivates the Decepticon beacon, only to be pursued by Shatter. Bumblebee destroys a dam wall, triggering a flood that causes a cargo ship to crush and destroy Shatter. Burns gives Bumblebee and Charlie time to escape before the army arrives. Charlie and Bumblebee arrive on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, where Charlie, realizing that Bumblebee has a greater purpose on Earth, says goodbye. Bumblebee takes on a new 1977 Chevrolet Camaro form and drives off, and Charlie reunites with her family and Memo.

Now using his new name, Bumblebee reunites with Optimus, who praises Bumblebee for keeping Earth safe as they watch more Autobots arrive through Earth's atmosphere. Meanwhile, Charlie finally finishes repairing the Corvette she and her father were working on, and takes the classic car for a drive.

## Cast

### Humans

* Hailee Steinfeld as Charlie Watson
* John Cena as Jack Burns
* Jorge Lendborg Jr. as Memo
* John Ortiz as Dr. Powell
* Jason Drucker as Otis Watson
* Pamela Adlon as Sally Watson
* Stephen Schneider as Ron
* Glynn Turman as General Whalen
* Len Cariou as Hank
* Ricardo Hoyos as Tripp Summers
* Gracie Dzienny as Tina
* Fred Dryer as Sheriff Lock
* Lenny Jacobson as Ray
* Megyn Price as Amber
* Edwin Hodge as Danny

### Transformers

#### Autobots

* Dylan O'Brien as Bumblebee
* Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime
* Grey Griffin as Arcee
* Steve Blum as Wheeljack
* Andrew Morgado as Cliffjumper
* Kirk Baily as Brawn
* Dennis Singletary as Ratchet
* Teletraan-1
* Ironhide

### Decepticons

* Angela Bassett as Shatter
* Justin Theroux as Dropkick
* David Sobolov as Blitzwing
* Jon Bailey as Soundwave and Shockwave
* Kirk Baily as Decepticon Soldiers
	+ Starscream
	+ Thrust
	+ Seeker Snipers
	+ Seeker Warriors
	+ Seeker Scouts
* Ravage

## Gallery

 File:Bumblebee (2018) - New Official Trailer - Paramount Pictures
## Trivia

* Despite this film being directed by Travis Knight rather then Michael Bay however , this film was still produced by Michael Bay who had previously directed all of the first five Hasbro Live Action Transformers films Transformers (2007) , Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (2009) , Transformers: Dark of The Moon (2011) , Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) respectively.
* All of The Transformers Characters in the film all once again similarly resemble there Transformers Generation one cartoon, Transformers Generation one movie and Transformers: Prime and Transformers: Prime Predacons Rising TV movie selves with the only exception however, being Blitzwing.

## Errors

* At the beginning of the movie Cybertron leaves the 7 Autobots among them Bumblebee, Cliffjumper, Ratchet, Arcee, Wheeljack, Brawn and Ironhide in the post-credits scene 7 Autobots arrive on Earth. This is strange given that Bumblebee arrived on Earth before the rest and Cliffjumper was killed before arriving on Earth. therefore, there should have been 5 Autobots in the arrival scene and these are Ratchet, Arcee, Wheeljack, Brawn and Ironhide, and given that the appearance of the Mirage and the Stratosphere was not planned at that time, the appearance of two more escape pods in the scene after the credits is clearly a error.
* The episode of ALF that Charlie's family watch is episode 20 of season 2, "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog". The episode originally aired on February 29, 1988, a year after the movie is meant to occur.
* Charlie starts playing the first track on Sam Cooke's album Sam's Songs, which ought to have been "Little Things You Do" rather than "Unchained Melody". The latter song doesn't even appear on the album, being the last track on side A of Cooke's earlier release Hits of the 50's.
* Powell remarks that the Decepticon modifications to the S7 computers have created an "interconnected web of information," implying that the Internet's technology originated from the Decepticons. However, the idea of an interconnected network of computers for communications and data transfer was developing for decades before the film's setting in the late 1980s. The term "Internet" first appeared in the mid-1970s.
* Bumblebee watches a game of Pong running on the Atari 2600 plugged into the Watsons' television. However, Pong was never released as a standalone game for the 2600, only appearing as part of the Video Olympics game compilation, which featured a colorized remake that looked entirely different from the classic black-and-white version shown on the screen. The paddles are also seen moving on their own, despite no one touching the controllers and the game lacking any paddles in its attract mode.
* Simmons identifies Brighton Falls as a "coastal town." However, both the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge and East Marin Island can be seen in the background of the Watsons' house establishing shots, which would place Brighton Falls within the San Francisco Bay, not quite on the coast. Furthermore, this causes problems with the Brighton Falls Boardwalk, which faces the ocean... maybe Brighton Falls is just a very large town?