Chris Cummins Dec 29, 2018
We take a look at how the Bumblebee soundtrack informs the film and its characters.
This article contains Bumblebee spoilers.
It's been a week since I saw Bumblebee, and frankly I'm still a bit in shock. Whereas the previous entries in the Transformers franchise have felt overblown, if not just aggressively stupid, director Travis Knight's prequel does some much-needed course correcting by delivering instantly likable characters and a story that has some genuinely touching moments.
With the film wisely being set in the 1980s -- the decade in which the robots in disguise first came to prominence -- the movie is peppered with familiar songs for anyone who came of age in the era.
But let's get one thing perfectly clear, despite the radio/Spotify friendly tracks that dominate the film's official soundtrack (including star Hailee Steinfeld's own "Back to Life"), Bumblebee's best-utilized songs are...
We take a look at how the Bumblebee soundtrack informs the film and its characters.
This article contains Bumblebee spoilers.
It's been a week since I saw Bumblebee, and frankly I'm still a bit in shock. Whereas the previous entries in the Transformers franchise have felt overblown, if not just aggressively stupid, director Travis Knight's prequel does some much-needed course correcting by delivering instantly likable characters and a story that has some genuinely touching moments.
With the film wisely being set in the 1980s -- the decade in which the robots in disguise first came to prominence -- the movie is peppered with familiar songs for anyone who came of age in the era.
But let's get one thing perfectly clear, despite the radio/Spotify friendly tracks that dominate the film's official soundtrack (including star Hailee Steinfeld's own "Back to Life"), Bumblebee's best-utilized songs are...
- 12/20/2018
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