Well it's not difficult. Load a movie with action scenes and explosions.
The only way to do transformers completely wrong is to do what they did with the Power Rangers movie.
Made it a movie where you can't market the toys.
A show meant to show off and sell toys. stick to that and you got it.
Regardless of how they do it, they found the right formula to keep their Transformer franchise going. Based on their success over the years, there's no denying that more people enjoy their movies than those that don't.
With that said, I think their Transformer franchise is cooling off as the latest installment still beat the competitions over the weekend but it only earned about $70 million at the domestic box office, not their usual $100 million plus like in the past.
But then again, that tends to be the trend for many movie franchises...A
fter so many Terminator, Rocky, Fast and Furious, Pirates of the Caribbean, Friday The 13th, etc., movies, it cools off.
Bottomline is, Big budget movie producers are in the business to make a profit so if their movies make a profit, it's a success for them..