David Bridges
Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Children Alternative Awards generally function a take a look at upcoming films to attract in additional viewers. This yr’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 goals.
Transformers One’s large hook is that it introduces younger variations 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 unique names, Orion Pax and D-16. As employee bots who by chance make their method to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–achieve the power to rework and do mainly every thing they’ll within the films and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and meaning some slapstick–a number 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is the primary theatrical Transformers film in practically 40 years aimed extra at these anybody youthful than 12 years outdated, and it’s an fascinating change of tempo from the franchise always hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t damage that the film’s rendition of Cybertron appears actually fairly and distinct whereas clearly influenced by the fan-favorite Era 1 aesthetic. If nothing else, this film might clarify how a lot the franchise may stand to do animated films extra typically as an alternative of as soon as each decade or so.
Transformers One makes it to theaters on September 20.
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