The seventh Transformers flick, Rise of the Beasts, is slated for release in 2023. Battleship taught Hasbro and Hollywood what not to do, and eventually, the floodgates opened.
While Transformers 2 through 5 couldn’t captivate audiences quite like the original, its sixth attempt - Bumblebee in 2018 - was a roaring hit, surpassing the original’s critical and audience reception and proving that maybe toys can make it in Hollywood. Instead of throwing in the towel, Hasbro focused its attention back on Transformers, releasing three more movies. Joe for the big screen ( The Rise of Cobra and Retaliation in 20), followed by Battleship, were less-than-stellar. Hasbro’s simultaneous attempts at converting G.I. Hasbro’s first toy-to-theaters transformation, 2007’s Transformers, was a smash success, and subsequent Transformers movies ( Revenge of the Fallen in 2009 and Dark of the Moon in 2011) performed well at the box office too. It’s fun to look at, at least, but the most notable element of Battleship is that it didn’t make Hasbro, or other toy manufacturers, lose hope about making it in Hollywood.
There are lots of ooh-and-aah visual effects but not much character or plot development in between the explosions and alien attacks. What follows is 131 minutes of empty bombast. An extraterrestrial mothership isolates the Hawaiian Islands and inhibits all communications inside its shield, forcing the US Navy’s most attractive officers to destroy the alien threat without the aid of radar. The original game doesn’t have any aliens, but Battleship, the movie, asks a radical question: what if, for some reason, it did? As with most stories about alien contact, the results are calamitous. Most people have tried to seek out their opponents’ plastic ships at least once in their lives. In 1979 it was one of the first games to be reimagined for computers.
Introduced in the 1930s, the game was played with a pad and pencil until Milton Bradley created a version in 1967 that used a plastic pegboard. Battleship has origins that can be traced back almost 100 years.
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