Bumblebee

Well, the Transformer film franchise certainly needed a reboot after the last disasters in Age Of Extinction and The Last Knight.  So like other superhero/comic book film franchises that find themselves going down the wrong path, they did a reboot.  Since the Transformers started in the 80's, it was only appropriate to make that (1987) the setting for Bumblebee here.  Having grown up in the 80's myself, being a fan, and watching the early television shows and  films, I've never run into anyone who didn't consider the character of Bumblebee to be one of their favorite Transformers.  So giving him a bit of an origins story and pairing him up with a troubled teenager (Hailee Steinfeld) turns out to be a no brainer.  The special effects and action are, of course, all there but they aren't unecessarily saturated over substance like many of the earlier films, even with Michael Bay still as one of the producers.  Instead, nostalgia, character chemistry and humanity, and humor are in equal doses here under the helm of  director Travis Knight.