In what feels like a movie miracle, Transformers One finally delivers on the still untapped potential of the franchise.
They did it everyone. Roll out the fireworks and merrymaking. Hollywood has finally produced a good Transformers movie that is focused on Cybertron without all the human baggage. Not only that, but Transformers One is also a lovingly animated movie that truly revels and enjoys the long, nerdy history of the franchise, doesn’t shy away from the violence of a robot alien war and is written to be smart without looking down on a younger audience.
The success of this movie starts with its premise. As so many Transformers projects pick up some time during the“Transformers One is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
If you’ve been a Transformers fan for any length of time, there’s likely a joke or throwback inside of the script waiting to delight you. Aside from building this love of Transformers into the writing, it’s also present in the animation itself with many characters, locations, events and more baked into the scenery.
The writing also helped elevate the vocal performances. The standout is Henry as Megatron who managed to pull off both the innocent earlier version of the character and the more maniacal later version. Fishburne also impressed as an older, wiser Transformer and every scene with Key as Bumblebee was fun. This version of Bumblebee, a character that won’t just stop talking, could have been annoying, but the talents of the writers and Key managed to make it fun.
We do see the influence of Spider-Verse et al in certain scenes, such as the surface of Cybertron that is filled with wildlife and strange morphing landscapes. The rest of the movie is filled with the hard corners and shining metal that you would expect and we really love how it manages to be both completely stylised while still believable.
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