Review: 'Bumblebee' is a sweet, refreshingly small-scaled 'Transformers' prequel

To describe "Bumblebee" as the best "Transformers" movie ever made may sound like such damningly faint praise as to border on the nonsensical. (Do you remember your funniest migraine? Your sexiest root canal?)

For the past decade or so these pictures have existed so completely in their own crass, bombastic universe - one packed with giant fireballs, vacuous characters and orgies of mass demolition - that it has seemed sensible to speak less of quality than of bearability. And few directors have pushed the boundaries of what is bearable like Michael Bay, a visually incontinent