After a while, that can get pretty boring and the series saw the fallout in Transformers: The Last Knight, which barely grossed half of the last two movies.
After five films, the Transformers franchise has a bit of a reputation and, depending on who you ask, it’s usually not a great one.
It was clear that a change in the formula was necessary, and Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura explains how the upcoming Bumblebee had to be different from what came before.
While the movies make for solid, mind-numbing, explosion-heavy spectacle, that’s pretty much all they are.