Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Children Alternative Awards generally function a take 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 collection’ big-screen desires.
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 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 accident make their option to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–achieve the flexibility to remodel and do mainly all the pieces they will within the motion pictures and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and which means some slapstick–plenty of 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is the primary theatrical Transformers film in practically 40 years aimed extra at these anybody youthful than 12 years outdated, and it’s an attention-grabbing change of tempo from the franchise continuously hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t harm that the film’s rendition of Cybertron seems to be actually fairly and distinct whereas clearly influenced by the fan-favorite Technology 1 aesthetic. If nothing else, this film might 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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