New on 4K disc: Beastly Transformers makes for nonsensical fun – while Rosemary's Baby never looked scarier

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Paramount Pictures' latest kick at the Transformers cat, er can, is more fun than I expected, and it's an interesting counterpoint to the studio's other major release for this week: Rosemary's Baby.

As with Bumblebee before it, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a throwback in time, this time to the 1990's, before the Michael Bay-driven original set of movies were supposed to have happened. This time, the Autobots are tasked with saving the earth from some new threat that could wipe out the entire planet, taking the hero Transformers out as well as the human race these Autobots have yet to discover can be allies.

It's also a nifty globetrotter, with some particularly beautiful and spectacular scenes shot in Peru, including the ancient Inca site of Machu Picchu – and if you thought these places looked lovely before, wait until you see them in glorious 4K with HDR! There's also some very neat scenes set in New York City (a lot of which was apparently shot in Montreal).

The story includes Autobots, Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons and a new nemesis, Scourge. The humans who end up along for the ride are Noah, an intelligent but rebellious kid from Brooklyn, and scientist Elena, played respectively by Anthony Ramos and Dominque Fishback. As one of the new Transformers says later in the film, about the humans: "They're more than meets they eye."

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