Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Youngsters Alternative Awards typically function a take a look at upcoming films to attract in additional viewers. This 12 months’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 sequence’ 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 authentic names, Orion Pax and D-16. As employee bots who by chance make their strategy 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 mainly all the things they will within the films and cartoons. However new powers requires some stumbles, and meaning some slapstick–quite a lot of it, going off the clip beneath.
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 previous, and it’s an attention-grabbing change of tempo from the franchise continually hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t damage that the film’s rendition of Cybertron seems 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 usually as a substitute of as soon as each decade or so.
Transformers One makes it to theaters on September 20.
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