What’s It About
During the 1990s, the Maximals, Predacons and Terrorcons join the existing battle on Earth between Autobots and Decepticons.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
After years (since 2007) of below-average to horrible Transformer films, with Bumblebee being the exception, the studios finally produced a movie worthy of the name. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is everything those others should have been. It seems the writers learned from their mistakes. Instead of continuing to build on those crappy sequels, they used Bumblebee as a continuing point of reference. Based in 1987, that film was the perfect prequel for Rise of the Beasts, a movie ultimately set in 1994 Brooklyn. The main story is about keeping a Transwarp key that allows anyone to travel to other universes, away from a planet-devouring bot named Unicron. This is how the movie starts and how we are introduced to the race of animal-changing bots called Maximals. The following extensive introduction is for the only humans prominently in the film, an ex-military electronics expert named Noah Diaz, and an astute museum intern, Elena Wallace. Throughout the film, we learn about Elena but mostly about Noah and his little brother. This is the start of what makes Rise of the Beasts the best Transformers movie ever. There are animal Transformers, human characters that actually make sense as a part of the overall story, the leader, Optimus Prime, the fan-favorite Bumblebee, and several other Autobots used for more than just filler. The scenery is incredible, the CGI is excellent, and the humans act like real humans. Best of all, every battle scene is clear and feels like a fight between autonomous robots, not a bunch of vending machines clunking around. And if you’ve been engrossed in the story, you should be near tears by the film’s end.
OUR RATING – AN OPTIMUS PRIMAL 8
MEDIA
- Genre – Action
- Street date
- Digital – July 11th, 2023
- DVD/Blu-Ray/4K – October 10th, 2023
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: Dolby Atmos, English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit), Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Atmos, French: Dolby TrueHD 7.1, French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, English, French, Spanish
Extras
- Heroes (10 minutes)
- Villains (9 minutes)
- Human Affairs (8 minutes)
- Life In The 90s (6 minutes)
- The Chase (6 minutes)
- The Battle Of Ellis Island (7 minutes)
- The Switchback Attack (7 minutes)
- Into The Jungle (10 minutes)
- The Final Conflict (11 minutes)
- The Transit Depot Alternate Opening – Deleted Scene (4 minutes)
- The Cave/Switchback – Alternate/Extended (4 minutes)
- Are You Ready? – Deleted Scene (2 minutes)
- This Can’t Be Real – Extended (1 minute)
- Noah Comes Home – Extended/Deleted Scene (1 minute)
- The Maximal Crest – Extended (1 minute)