Director Kay Cannon’s perspective is the film’s biggest asset, as it freshens up the traditional formula’s inevitable focus on love, consent, and orientation in ways that maintain the sub-genre’s trademark raunch.

Part rap musical, part social satire, with elements of Westerns and kung fu pictures, Bodied is one of the funniest, freest movies of the year.

These women Ms. Fonda, Ms. Keaton, Ms. Steenburgen and Ms. Bergen, that is have nothing to prove. Each one brings enough credibility and charisma to Book Club to render its weaknesses largely irrelevant.

For Driver’s movie, Basquiat is a ghostly presence, popping up in snapshots or scraps of footage.

So in not sacrificing that human element, Bumblebee is a nostalgic delight that taps into not just the 1980s but youth in general.