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

Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Youngsters Alternative Awards typically function a take 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 collection’ big-screen desires.

Transformers One’s huge hook is that it introduces young versions of the robots we’ve come to know and love through the years. 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 unique names, Orion Pax and D-16. As employee bots who unintentionally make their strategy 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 principally the whole lot they will within the films and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and meaning some slapstick–plenty 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 arms are little question gonna kill it with youthful audiences. That is the primary theatrical Transformers film in practically 40 years aimed extra at these anybody youthful than 12 years previous, and it’s an attention-grabbing change of tempo from the franchise consistently hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t damage that the film’s rendition of Cybertron seems actually fairly and distinct whereas clearly influenced by the fan-favorite Era 1 aesthetic. If nothing else, this film could clarify how a lot the franchise may stand to do animated films extra usually as an alternative of as soon as each decade or so.

Transformers One makes it to theaters on September 20.

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