10 Genius Blockbuster Movie Subversions

What You Thought

Michael Bay was the father of what turned out to be a hugely successful attempt to bring Cybertron's natives to our screens. In 2007, the first Transformers movie satisfied critics and with over $700 million worldwide, had the fans hooked.

What followed was a who's who of lazy, convoluted ideas mashed together with about as much clarity as the fight scenes involving the robots in question. However, the audience didn't seem to care as the films continued to gorge on their wallets and both Dark of The Moon (2011) and Age of Extinction (2014) broke $1bn worldwide.

The Last Knight (2017) fell way below this benchmark in both earnings and quality, so when it was announced that a spin-off of the cherished, verbally challenged, Bumblebee was in the works, scepticism was in the air.

What It Actually Was

The yellow, 1967 Volkswagen, stuck the landing and then some. The film, reaching a series best 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, harnessed the spirit of the television show we had been raised on as children and gifted us with a film equipped with both heart and humour, whilst lowering the stakes that had become somewhat predictable in the earlier entries. Sometimes less is more.