Transformers One’s First Clip is Very Fairly and Very Foolish

Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Children Selection Awards typically function a have a look at upcoming movies to attract in additional viewers. This 12 months’s get was a clip for Transformers One, Paramount’s upcoming CG prequel to the live-action films and no matter’s subsequent for the sequence’ big-screen desires.

Transformers One’s huge hook is that it introduces young versions of the robots we’ve come to know and love over time. Set on Cybertron years earlier than a civil conflict wrecks the planet, Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry) nonetheless go by their authentic names, Orion Pax and D-16. As employee bots who unintentionally make their technique to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–acquire the power to rework and do mainly the whole lot they’ll within the films and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and which means some slapstick–loads of it, going off the clip under.

Gags like Optimus stumbling round together with his head compacted into his chest and Bumblebee scrambling throughout the ground together with his wheel fingers are little question gonna kill it with youthful audiences. That is the primary theatrical Transformers film in almost 40 years aimed extra at these anybody youthful than 12 years outdated, and it’s an fascinating change of tempo from the franchise continually hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t harm that the film’s rendition of Cybertron seems actually fairly and distinct whereas clearly influenced by the fan-favorite Technology 1 aesthetic. If nothing else, this film could clarify how a lot the franchise may stand to do animated films extra usually as a substitute of as soon as each decade or so.

Transformers One makes it to theaters on September 20.

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