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Subsequent entries earned plenty of money, but the series eventually devolved to galactic levels of convoluted idiocy.

(2017sTransformers: The Last Knightwas pretty muchpure gibberish.).
If the films dont have size and pomposity, what good are they?
Its not spectacular enough to impress us, nor intimate enough to move us.
Its just kind of there ready to be consumed and forgotten.
Marky Mark is leaving the Funky Bunch!)
(TheTransformersmovies have more magic space doo-hickeys than even the Marvel movies.)
An abundance of life…savory!
Right now, he couldnt care less about humans and their Earth.
He just wants his own home back.
For the most part, its all the same template as before.
Humans discover giant robots living among us.
Bad giant robots want magic thing to destroy world.
Humans and good giant robots team up, and they all go to some new locale to fight.
This time, its Peru.
All of these sins will probably be forgiven if youre a devotee of this franchise, and/or these toys.
But no movie thats supposed to be such mindless fun should ever feel so tedious and uninspired.