Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Review: This Explosively Fun Sequel Is The Finest Hour For Optimus Prime And Company

Anthony Ramos walks down the street next to Mirage in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

We’re now on the seventh installment of the Transformers franchise, which has run for almost 20 years. By this point, franchise fatigue is a valid concern – something that this Hasbro toy-based series has found itself deftly defying by shifting gears to throwback prequels that fill in the earlier years of the canon timeline. Director Steven Caple Jr’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts continues that trend, while introducing some fan favorite characters with the Maximals from Beast Wars, and it also proves itself to be the best of the bunch in an explosively fun sequel. 

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

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Release Date: June 9, 2023
Directed By: Steven Caple Jr.
Written By: Joby Harold and Darnell Metayer & Josh Peters and Erich Hoeber & Jon Hoeber
Starring: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez, Tobe Nwigwe, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Liza Koshy, John DiMaggio, David Sobolov, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Pete Davidson, Cristo Fernández, Tongayi Chirisa
Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and language.
Runtime: 127 Minutes