7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Beast Machines: Transformers (1999)
Beast Machines: Transformers (1999)
Overview
After the end of the Beast Wars, the Maximals awaken on their home planet of Cybertron and are chased by mindless Vehicons created by Megatron. The Maximals must free the planet from Megatron and restore it to its real way of living.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Viewer Rating
7.4
Overview
After the end of the Beast Wars, the Maximals awaken on their home planet of Cybertron and are chased by mindless Vehicons created by Megatron. The Maximals must free the planet from Megatron and restore it to its real way of living.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central conflict revolves around restoring ecological balance and individuality against a tyrannical, technologically-driven assimilation, aligning its dominant themes with progressive values of environmentalism and anti-authoritarianism.
The movie features an entirely robot cast, which inherently bypasses traditional human racial or gender casting considerations. Its narrative explores themes of individuality and the conflict between organic life and technological control, without directly engaging with or critiquing human traditional identities.
Secondary
The show features Strika, a powerful Vehicon general, who repeatedly engages in and wins close-quarters physical fights against multiple male Maximal opponents, demonstrating superior strength and combat prowess.
Beast Machines: Transformers, an animated science fiction series, does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on the conflict between Maximals and Vehicons, and philosophical discussions about technology and organic life, without addressing queer identities or experiences.
Beast Machines: Transformers does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on robotic identity, destiny, and the conflict between organic and technological life, without engaging with human gender identity or expression.
Beast Machines is a direct sequel to Beast Wars, and all returning characters, such as Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rattrap, and Blackarachnia, maintain their established genders. New characters introduced in this series do not constitute gender swaps.
The characters in "Beast Machines: Transformers" are sentient robots (Cybertronians) and do not possess human racial characteristics. Therefore, the concept of a "race swap" as defined does not apply to them.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.7
8.1
Critic Ratings
N/A
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