Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) — watch online on iFILM. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. for Paramount Pictures, this 127-minute action sci-fi moves the franchise back to 1994, splitting its runtime between New York City and Peru as three separate robot factions collide.

Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) is an Army vet struggling to land a job when he accidentally gets pulled into a conflict that has been running for millions of years. Artifact researcher Elena Wallace (Dominique Fishback) ends up in the same firefight. Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen, reprising the role he has held since 1984) teams up with the Maximals — beast-form Transformers led by Optimus Primal (Ron Perlman) — to stop Scourge (Peter Dinklage), a herald of something far larger and more destructive than any Decepticon. Michelle Yeoh voices Airazor; Pete Davidson brings Mirage to life.

The film pulls its expanded mythology from Beast Wars, the 1990s animated series that introduced animal-form Transformers to the franchise. Stream Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) online on iFILM.