“Some things shouldn’t be invented.” So… Transformers is anti-science, then? You’ve got to imagine that Michael Bay was using these words as script placeholders until he could wrangle a technologically adroit consultant to fill in the gaps… but then just forgot about it in the wake of designing his nineteenth explosion. Stanley Tucci, playing a brilliant scientist, yells this at one point. Apparently he’s been dealing with his own surrogate child’s teenage rebellion and sexual exploration. Optimus Prime can empathize with Cade Yaeger’s fatherhood headaches. Littered with idioms like, “There are questions we were never meant to know the answers to, but who we are and where we came from is not one of them,” and “When you look to the stars, pretend that one of them is the soul I’ve spent this movie trying to prove to everyone I probably have, even though I’m a robot,” Optimus’ final speech to close out the film is as cheesy and vacant as something out of a teen soap with a religious slant.ħ) “I WENT THROUGH THE SAME THING WITH BUMBLEBEE.” But the kicker of the kicker: the futuristic, space-traveling robot monsters use a rope net to do the kidnapping. Her attempts to bust open the car windshield (a suggestion that is, of course, yelled to her by her dad) are half-hearted and futile. She just happens to be inside a car that is a little too close to Optimus Prime when they kidnap him. But here’s the kicker: she isn’t really meant to be kidnapped. Then, the two of them get to yell about her being kidnapped by a robot spaceship. Her overprotective dad ( Mark Wahlberg) yells about her dating her thick-headed boyfriend ( Jack Reynor), who yells right back. Nicola Peltz’s character serves no distinct purpose other than to be yelled about.
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