The Michael Bay Transformers movies mainly received negative reviews, but there are many things about the sequels that we don’t hate. Bay made his first Transformers movie in 2007, and it was a fun action release about the Hasbro toy line about robots called Autobots that transform into vehicles and battle the evil Decepticons.
However, while the first movie received a slightly positive Rotten Tomatoes score of 57%, the four Michael Bay sequels were ranked as rotten by critics, with three of the films failing even to reach 20%. However, despite the reviews, there are things about the Transformers sequels that prove the movies aren’t as bad as they might seem.
The Transformers Sequels Had Better Shot Battle Scenes
The most significant improvement from the first Transformers movie was the battle scenes. In that first movie, the battle scenes used a lot of shaky cam, and the Autobots and Decepticons all looked similar to each other, making it very hard to follow the big fight scenes. Fans complained, and Michael Bay fixed it in the sequels.
If anything, Bay listened to the fans. He eliminated most of the shaky cam shooting, and he made sure to design the Autobots and Decepticons more distinctively, allowing fans to follow the battles more easily. While the L.A. battle in the first movie was incredible, the giant fights in the sequels were even better thanks to the changes.
The Autobots & Decepticons Looked Great
As mentioned, Michael Bay helped to make sure that the Autobots and Decepticons in the sequels were easier to tell apart, helping out in the action scenes. The first movie clearly allowed Optimus Prime and Bumblebee to shine, but the rest just kind of blended in together. That was not a problem in the sequels.
The first movie showed the arrival of the Autobots on Earth and their battle with the Decepticons. However, the sequels really brought in some fan favorites, and Bay ensured that all of them looked incredible. The second movie brought in Autobots like Sideswipe, Jolt, and Arcee, while the later films added Topspin, Crosshairs, and more.
The Decepticons added names like Grindor, Shockwave, Laserbeak, Stinger, Onslaught, and Shatter. However, the best thing was adding the very cool hybrids, like the Devastator in Revenge of the Fallen, the Dinobots in Transformers: The Last Knight, which led to the post-Bay movies’ introduction of the Maximals.
That is one thing that the Michael Bay Transformer sequels excelled at — giving franchise fans the classic characters they always wanted to see in live action on the big screen.
The Revenge of the Fallen Music Score
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the one movie that Michael Bay didn’t even like. That is because it was being developed when the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike halted movie production. Bay said that he had to make a movie based on nothing more than a 14-page idea.
While Bay called the movie