Monday, 23 September 2024

Transformers One

Official Australian release date: 19/9/24. Viewed: 23/9/24.
Director: Josh Cooley
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key
Genre: Animation / Action
Rating: PG

‘Transformers One’ is a prequel to all the Transformers cartoons and films, and is a great return to form, partly because I think it works better when there’re no pesky humans to worry about, just space robots! This is from Cooley, the writer of ‘Inside Out’ and director of ‘Toy Story 4’, so he knows how to balance comedy and heart. It’s nice to have a fresh slate with Orion Pax/young Optimus (Hemsworth) and D-16/young Megatron (Tyree Henry, who are just miners trying to find their way in Cybertron.

Strong voice cast with Elita (Johansson), B-127/young Bumblebee (Key), Alpha Trion (Fishburne), Starscream (Buscemi – great origin story for his voice) and Sentinel Prime (Hamm), plus many other familiar faces of future Autobots and Decepticons. The plot is clear for younger kids – all the “Primes” (leaders) were killed in a war decades ago and the leadership matrix thing was lost, so Orion, D, B & Elita set out to find it and uncover a huge conspiracy. They set out to fix it while discovering their new abilities.

Crazy to think it’s been 38 years since the first film and 40 years since the cartoon first started. It does well to give each of the main characters time to shine, and does a good of showing Orion & D-16’s friendship and how/why it evolves. Also important to note there’s some great action sequences, a fitting finale and lots of chuckles/funny moments. Should suit older audiences (i.e. me) and new ones: “9.9 out of 10” from the nephew!

Overall: Fun, fast prequel to our favourite robots

Gav's Rating: 3.5 stars

 

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