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Honest Trailer - Transformers: The Last Knight

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Transformers: The Last Knight is the 231st episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr and Dan Murrell. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2017 sci-fi action sequel Transformers: The Last Knight. It was published on January 30, 2018, as part of Screen Junkies second annual Fan Appreciation Month. It is 4 minutes 4 seconds long. It has been viewed over 2 million times.

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"You can bet your life there'll be some big-ass explosions, mild-to-moderate racism, and action that looks like two RadioShacks doing Kama Sutra in a hurricane." ~ Honest Trailers - Transformers: The Last Knight

Script[]

We asked you to vote for the 2017 movies you wanted us to make an Honest Trailer for. And now, your number one choice. Wow, you guys clearly hate us.

After every Transformers movie, there is hope: hope that they won't make another one. Now, the Bay bots are back for his final chapter (a /Film article with the title "Michael Bay Is Saying Farewell to 'Transformers' with 'The Last Knight'" pops up)... until they return up to 14 more times. (a Business Insider article with the title "Michael Bay says there are 14 future 'Transformers' movies already written" pops up) NOOOOO!!

Transformers: The Last Knight

Strap in for another Shakespearean tale, in the sense that it's a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. But you can bet your life there'll be some big-ass explosions (montage of explosions), mild-to-moderate racism...

Cade: --hey, Chief!

Chief Sherman: My name is Sherman.

Cade: --it's okay to be a kid, Little J-Lo.

Mohawk: Aw, yeah! Decepticons is in the streets!

...and action that looks like two RadioShacks doing Kama Sutra in a hurricane. (shows Optimus Prime beating up Bumblebee) How are we doing? Are we done yet? Nope, still going, huh? UGGHH!

Forget everything you knew about the Transformers, because so did Michael Bay, who in the third one said Cybertron was destroyed, and in this one said, "Actually, it's back."; in the fourth one said Megatron is now Galvatron, and in this one said, "Uh, never mind; he's Megatron again."; and in the first one said the Transformers came to Earth to find the AllSpark and learned English from the Internet, but in this one said, "You know what? F*ck it! They were allies with King Arthur, and one of them killed Hitler!"

Burton: That's the watch that killed Hitler.

See? We're not the only ones insulting the intelligence of Transformers movie fans; so is he!

Because we live in the darkest timeline, prepare for another Transformers movie that's mostly about the humans. Cade Yeager is back, and he's still an inventor...

Cade: I'm an inventor.

...that's still from... Texas?

Cade: They have the support of the entire world.

Now, he'll team up with Viviane Wembly, a brilliant British uterus...

Grandmum: Have you found a man yet, Viviane?

Polo Player: There's a reason you're always single.

Viviane: What?

...generic military guys yelling generic military things...

Santos: --new target! Three o'clock high! / Move, move, move!

Lennox: Laze it, laze it, laze it!

...a random street urchin so awkwardly crammed in, even she doesn't know why she's here...

Cade: What are you doing here?

Izabella: I-I don't know.

...and Anthony Hopkins, who delivers a brilliant portrayal... of a man who won an Oscar, then realized he's doing a Transformers movie.

Burton: --my own family had some... <sigh> small part in all this.

It's okay, Sir Anthony; at least you didn't get peed on by Bumblebee.

Agent Simmons: (as Bumblebee "urinates" on him) Hey, hey!

The rage-fueled, violent Decepticons are back, and the only things that can stop them are the rage-fueled, violent Autobots...

Drift: I will kill you!

Optimus Prime: I will kill you!

Bumblebee: I'll burn you so bad, you'll wish you died as a child.

...and their rage-fueled, violent human allies.

Burton: --off the sub, now!

Cade: You want to get punched in the face, like, really hard?

Kid: ...No.

Caught in the middle is Optimus Prime.

Optimus Prime: I am Optimus Prime. / I am Optimus Prime.

We get it.

Optimus Prime: I am Optimus Prime.

Shut up!

Burton: Shut up!

He's been forced by a lady with dreads to turn against his family, and if you said, "That's the exact plot of Fate of the Furious," congratulations! You saw some really bad movies in 2017! Wonder across a two-and-a-half-hour run-time, "Is Optimus good? Is he bad? Do I care? Where does he go for half the movie? Why is there a kung fu robot butler?! Am I high?! What do words even mean anymore?!"

Simmons: Hurry, man, they're dissolving scrotums.

So roll out with a franchise Michael Bay is so bored with, he's literally making characters out of garbage; builds up the importance of Bumblebee's voice, only to leave in the temp audio from his sound engineer (an MTV Movie News article with the title "How Transformers Found Bumblebee's Real Voice in The Last Knight" pops up)...

Bumblebee: Sting like a bee.

...and films the whole thing on three different aspect ratios, that he rapidly shifts between for the entire movie. Gah, I cannot unsee that now!

Starring: Jar Jar Clinks (Jim Carter as Cogman); Silence of the Gramps (Anthony Hopkins as Sir Edmund Burton, 12th Earl of Folgan); The Boogie Knight (Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager); Megan Faux (Laura Haddock as Viviane Wembly); Lil Orphan Angry (Isabela Moner as Izabella); Drunkledore (Stanley Tucci as Wizard Merlin); Star Wars (shows various robots in the film whose designs are eerily similar to those in the Star Wars franchise); and Actual Quotes from the Film That Perfectly Describe... The Transformers Writers Room...

Viviane: --logic has left the building.

...A Michael Bay Set...

Merlin: Big personalities just sort of clashing and urrgh, bloody!

...A Michael Bay Script...

Chief Sherman: --from you, it sounds... I don't know, vaguely racist.

...Michael Bay's Answer to Everything...

Izabella: Blow it up!

...and Us, After Writing Another Honest Trailer for Yet Another Transformers Movie.

Burton: "Has my life been wasted?" Have you ever felt like that...?

Sigh, Robot.

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Honest title for Transformers: The Last Knight - Sigh, Robot. Titles designed by Robert Holtby.

You know what's almost as awkward as that long scene about having sex with Mark Wahlberg's underage daughter in the last movie? An even longer scene about how long it's been since Mark Wahlberg had sex.

Burton: No whoopee, Mr. Cade?

Cade: It's been a while.

Viviane: Well, how long's "a while"? A week? A month? A year?

MAKE IT STOP!

Trivia[]

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Honest Trailer Commentaries - Transformers- The Last Knight

  • The Shakespeare quote is from Macbeth's famous "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" soliloquy from the play Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5. The soliloquy has been quoted in several sci-fi shows including Mr Robot, Star Trek and Doctor Who. In the original play, Macbeth gives the speech in response to the news that his wife has died: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
  • The Honest Trailers team deliberately chose to skip Transformers: The Last Knight when it was released on home video and Blu-ray, feeling that they had already said enough about the Transformers franchise in their previous Honest Trailers. Unfortunately (or is that fortunately?), Transformers: The Last Knight received the most votes in the January 2018 Fan Appreciation Month poll so they were forced to tackle it. Epic Voice Guy comments on the fans' punishing choice in the trailer's intro: "You clearly hate us."
  • Screen Junkies have also produced Honest Trailers for several other movies in the Transformers franchise, including Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Transformers: Age of Extinction. They have not produced an Honest Trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Bumblebee, or any Transformers animation.

Watch the full Honest Trailer Commentary on YouTube

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - Transformers: The Last Knight has a 98.5% approval rating from YouTube viewers. ScreenRant said using the Shakespeare quote was "impressive" and that comparing the action to "two Radio Shacks do Karma Sutra in a hurricane" was "quite brilliant." SlashFilm also singled out the karma sutra line for particular praise. Insider wrote that the Honest Trailer "perfectly explains why the movies are so awful." MovieWeb noted the Honest Trailer was particularly savage with its criticisms, "this video attacks nearly every aspect of the movie. And it goes for the jugular." Geek Tyrant commended the Honest Trailer for "amusingly tear[ing] the movie apart." In their review of the Honest Trailer, The Mary Sue praised the Shakespeare reference and also said "the Transformers franchise is very much ripe for mocking and yet somehow none of the jokes feel like low-hanging fruit."

Production credits[]

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Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Producers - Dan Murrell, Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Max Dionne

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Joe Starr, Dan Murrell

Edited by Kevin Williamsen and TJ Nordaker

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