After a decent outing with Bumblebee, the franchise is back to its ponderous, MacGuffin\u002Dclutching ways with a whole new crew of aliens
And so the humans came and went – Mark Wahlberg in a couple of movies, Hailee Steinfeld in the last one, now Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback – while the cast of robotic characters grew to ever larger proportions. Imagine if the Fast franchise had decided that Vin and the gang were expendable, because all audiences really wanted was the vehicles.
Even the Transformers themselves showed little consistency, other than the “hero” Autobot, Optimus Prime, a tractor-trailer voiced by Canadian Peter Cullen, who’s been doing it since the animated series of the mid-1980s. But Decepticons gave way to Constructicons, who were overtaken by DinoBots, and now Maximals and Terrorcons.
The Terrorcons are the bad guys, trying to track down the latest of the franchise’s many flimsily concocted MacGuffins, a “trans-warp key” that will presumably unlock whatever plot twists the movie needs to keep going. Opposing them are the Maximals, robots that resemble animals, with names like Cheetor and Apelinq. Article content
Their leader is Optimus Primal , a gorilla-esque creature keen to protect Earth and its inhabitants from the likes of Scourge and his army of what look like Swiss Army Orcs. Helping out on the human side, the aforementioned Ramos and Fishback as Noah and Elena, he a former soldier in danger of drifting into a life of crime, she a museum employee with a handy knowledge of ancient temples and millennia-old writing.
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