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

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

Transformers One’s large 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 struggle 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 technique to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–achieve the flexibility to rework and do principally every thing they will within the motion pictures and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and meaning some slapstick–numerous it, going off the clip beneath.

Gags like Optimus stumbling round along with his head compacted into his chest and Bumblebee scrambling throughout the ground along 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 previous, and it’s an attention-grabbing 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 could clarify how a lot the franchise may stand to do animated motion pictures 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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