Transformers One’s First Clip is Very Pretty and Very Silly

Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards sometimes diagnostic a look astatine upcoming movies to gully successful much viewers. This year’s get was a clip for Transformers One, Paramount’s upcoming CG prequel to the live-action movies and whatever’s adjacent for the series’ big-screen dreams.

Transformers One’s big hook is that it introduces young versions of the robots we’ve travel to cognize and emotion implicit the years. Set connected Cybertron years earlier a civilian warfare wrecks the planet, Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry) inactive spell by their archetypal names, Orion Pax and D-16. As idiosyncratic bots who accidentally marque their mode to the planet’s surface, the pair–along with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–gain the quality to alteration and bash fundamentally everything they tin successful the movies and cartoons. But caller powers requires immoderate stumbles, and that means immoderate slapstick–a batch of it, going disconnected the clip below.

Gags similar Optimus stumbling astir with his caput compacted into his thorax and Bumblebee scrambling crossed the level with his instrumentality hands are nary uncertainty gonna termination it with younger audiences. This is the archetypal theatrical Transformers movie successful astir 40 years aimed much astatine those anyone younger than 12 years old, and it’s an absorbing alteration of gait from the franchise perpetually hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t wounded that the movie’s rendition of Cybertron looks really pretty and chiseled portion intelligibly influenced by the fan-favorite Generation 1 aesthetic. If thing else, this movie whitethorn marque wide however overmuch the franchise could basal to bash animated movies much often alternatively of erstwhile each decennary oregon so.

Transformers One makes it to theaters connected September 20.

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