One of the best decisions Caple made was not to let any of these figures overstay their welcome. He’s voiced by Colman Domingo with a scary dark majesty that sounds like it could scrape the bottom of the ocean. And then there is Scourge’s boss, Unicron - a metallic outer-space ring of evil with pincers large enough to wrap themselves around an entire planet. There is Scourge, the central villain and leader of the Terrorcons, a fascist hulk voiced by Peter Dinklage in tones so dark and ominous they just about shake the earth.
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(As characters and Hasbro toys, the Maximals date back to the 1996 update of the “Transformers” animated TV series.) He’s voiced by Ron Perlman in bass notes that are a shade away from Prime’s, though more warmly casual in their stateliness. There is Optimus Primal (yes, Primal, his moniker a shade away from Prime’s because he was named after him), the gorilla robot who is the leader of the Maximals, the wild-animal Transformers who are being introduced into the franchise with this film. There is, of course, our old friend Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), leader of the Autobots, who transforms out of a cool red Freightliner semi-truck and issues his commands in a voice that’s noble, stentorian, maybe even a dash Shakespearean. But they’re still the Transformers.Īt a certain point I realized that the entire film can be seen as a contest between no less than four titans who speak in ominous electronic how-low-can-you-go Darth Vader tones, even though two of them are the good guys. Set in a hip-hop-inflected 1994, it’s got a relatable human story that works, and thanks to a script that actually has sustained bursts of dialogue, the robots felt more real to me as characters than they usually do. The film was directed by Steven Caple Jr., who made “Creed II,” the most prosaic entry in the “Creed” series, and when I say that he has staged “Rise of the Beasts” in a scruffy plain grounded way, I mean that as a (moderate) compliment.
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“ Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” isn’t as stylish as “Bumblebee,” but it’s an example of how a “Transformers” movie can serve up the escapist-junk-food amusement it promises without giving you a synthetic sugar headache. They could have relaxed more and still delivered that robot-as-wrecking-machine buzz. When “Bumblebee” (2018) came along, and Michael Bay finally stopped directing the films, it became clear - in case it wasn’t already - that the “Transformers” movies had never needed to be so bombastic in their Mighty Entertainment Imperative.
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