Despite a wealth of rich material, the seventh 'Transformers' film loses the Maximals in translation.
While fans of the live-action Transformers series have been waiting five years for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts — the previous entry, Bumblebee, was met with unexpectedly positive reviews in 2018 — fans of Beast Wars: Transformers having been waiting for a big screen adaptation of the series since the first Transformers movie debuted back in 2007. Rise of the Beasts promised to bring the Maximals, the heroic faction of the Beast Wars series into the live-action fold.
How Does ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Fail Its ‘Beast Wars’ Characters? One could immediately argue that Rise of the Beasts doesn’t do justice to its source material simply because of the sheer lack of Beast Wars characters brought to the big screen. The film doesn’t bring a single Predacon into the live-action universe, meaning audiences have to miss out on characters like the mad scientist Tarantulas and the campy rage-monster Inferno .
The film’s failure to bring Cheetor or Rhinox to life is apparent far before the film even gets to its nostalgic Beast Wars moment, though. The film treats both characters as set dressing, failing to give much of any personality to either character. Cheetor has, at most, a handful of lines, and if Rhinox has any lines at all, they are in chorus with other characters.
While it would be unreasonable to expect Rise of the Beasts could capture the full spirit of either Cheetor or Rhinox, or faithfully adapt their individual arcs from a three-season show into a single feature-length film, the seventh Transformers film doesn’t even try to bring their cinematic counterparts to life. None of Cheetor’s few lines suggest he’s a young Transformer learning to be a hero. There is no shot of Rhinox basking in the beauty of nature or using his iconic chainguns in battle.
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