10 Movies You Were Shocked To See Didn’t Totally Suck

7. Bumblebee

After suffering through five of Michael Bay's Transformers movies, it would've been silly to expect anything other than mediocrity from Bumblebee, even with Bay transitioned out for director Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings).

The series' increasingly bloated and inane entries eroded so much audience goodwill that it was tough to conceive of Bumblebee being better than watchable, and if we're totally honest, it could've easily ended up being just "less-bad" than Bay's films.

But Bumblebee wasn't merely the most critically acclaimed Transformers movie by an epic margin: it ended up a genuinely charming, kid-friendly and action-packed blockbuster that put paid to both its human and robotic characters alike.

More than that, it also boasted a reverence for Hasbro's IP that the Bayformers films never did, more-or-less serving as the soft-reboot palate cleanser the franchise desperately needed.

A sequel is currently in the works, though Knight hasn't yet committed to return in the director's chair. Fingers crossed.