Like with different awards ceremonies, Nickelodeon’s Children Selection Awards generally characteristic 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 huge 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 by accident make their approach to the planet’s floor, the pair–together with Elita-One (Scarlett Johansson) and Bee (Keegan-Michael Key)–acquire the flexibility to remodel and do principally the whole lot they’ll 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 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is the primary theatrical Transformers film in practically 40 years aimed extra at these anybody youthful than 12 years outdated, and it’s an fascinating change of tempo from the franchise continually hitting the mid-teen demographic. It doesn’t damage that the film’s rendition of Cybertron seems to be 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 might stand to do animated motion pictures 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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