Still, we think Bumblebee can get folks excited again set itself apart from the past movies in the following ways.
The Bumblebee prequel arrives in theaters in December, and there’s reason to believe fewer people are excited for a new Transformers film than they’ve been in the past.
The franchise’s last adventure, Transformers: The Last Knight, had a much less-successful run at the box office than past sequels, and critical reception has skewed further into the negative with each entry past the original.