Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Youngsters Selection Awards typically 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 films and no matter’s subsequent for the collection’ big-screen goals.
Transformers One’s massive 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 authentic names, Orion Pax and D-16. As employee bots who unintentionally make their option to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–acquire the flexibility to rework and do principally every part they will within the films and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and which means some slapstick–numerous it, going off the clip under.
Gags like Optimus stumbling round along with his head compacted into his chest and Bumblebee scrambling throughout the ground along with his wheel palms 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 fascinating change of tempo from the franchise always hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t harm that the film’s rendition of Cybertron appears 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 typically as a substitute of as soon as each decade or so.
Transformers One makes it to theaters on September 20.
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