Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)Movies

Everybody has known it for ages: Optimus is way past his Prime.  The first “Transformers” film in 2007, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, was frivolous enough; the next four were appalling; and then 2018’s surprising “Bumblebee” gave us some hope that the series still had some gas in the tank.  Wrong! The fuel gauge is at “E” — for excruciating. The seventh movie in the franchise, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” is a predictable return to rock-em-sock-em stupidity with nothing to add except Michelle Yeoh as a talking aluminum falcon. What a misnomer “Transformers” is. These films never change one iota. Once again the noble numbskull Autobots are back, but this time they’re parked in 1994 New York City following the events of “Bumblebee,” whatever...