I saw Bumblebee today! I enjoyed it! It's much more of a family friendly movie than the Bay movies (disclaimer: I've only seen 3 of the Bay movies but I've watched enough YouTube videos to know everything about the other two) and also more of an "actual good movie" than them. The story is a lot smaller with only three robots heavily featured, but that means the human characters have to actually be likable and well acted and they are, especially the great Hailee Steinfeld as the lead. There's actual solid charater work with her and Bee. I appreciated how Bee kind of had PTSD after the war on Cybertron and she helped him get over it. I liked how he put his mask down when he had to do some killing but then took it off and went all nice and friendly with Hailee. It is a bit light on action but the robot fights we get are good and all easy to follow (you can even tell the characters apart!) It's good that someone realised a Transformers movie doesn't need racism, sexism and homophobia when it can just have a heart instead!
On the weaker side it's obvious that the budget was a lot lower than the Bay movies. The Cybertron scenes are good (Wheeljack!) but over very quickly. There's one part where Optimus is captured by Decepticons but then he just shows up at the end (as his classic G1 truck!) and we don't find out how he got away. The little brother character was a bit annoying and while it's gently amusing it's not as funny as say a Marvel movie or anything. Ther'es lots of cliches. But yeah this was a very good start to what is hopefully a new direction for the Transformers and I got to see Ravage eject from Soundwave.