Review - TRANSFORMERS ONE (2024)

[Review Includes Some Details That May Be Considered Spoilers]
The "TRANSFORMERS" franchise goes back to the beginning on two fronts; rewinding to a joint "best buddies to arch enemies" origin story for Optimus Prime and Megatron and returning to animation. It proves to be a winning decision on both fronts, delivering a surprisingly solid robot-punching mini-epic that wraps a solid "Baby's First Revolutionary-Schism" scifi-action story around a lot of striking animation and satisfying adventure business.

#Transformers #TransformersOne

[ChissHansen]

"So the Beetlejuice Sequel and the Transformers Prequel are both go-" All I needed to hear. Added to watch later when I see both of 'em.

[karelsmith-sxqn]

Who would've thought after seven movies and a little over twenty years of doing Transformers, someone at Paramount finally said: "Here's an idea. How about we make a family-friendly movie about talking robots who turn into vehicles, based on the family-friendly TV show about talking robots who turn into vehicles, about selling family-friendly toys about robots who turn into vehicles? And get a Pixar guy to direct it!"

[jinpei]

The marketing did this movie no favors. It's a LOT better than the trailers showed.

[vonb]

The system is broken and needs to be fixed vs the system is working as intended and needs to be destroyed the movie

[Alverant]

It's good for the times we're in too. For decades we've been told that if we work hard and do what we're told, we'll be rich one day. Guess what, that didn't happen and people are angry and some want to burn everything down so they can be in charge and some want to reform the system from within. Sound familiar?
For all the crap IDW received, you can't deny they were an influence on this movie.

[mesektet]

Oh look, a *good* Transformers movie is one that isn’t afraid to be Transformers. Who’d have guessed, total shocker.

[SkepticKnight]

I know he’s not a fan of his early work, but I can’t help but remember Bob’s review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallan. Amid the ranting, he shouted one of his long-term principles, “You can make a good movie out of anything!” as a defense of using Transformers as source material.

It’s like we’ve come full circle.

[williamfrederick]

I'd love a video covering beastwars maybe as like a "cartoons are weird" thing, considering a lot of people haven't seen it

[Rocketboy]

I guess the IDW comics made an impression on the creatives behind this movie.

[The_Chocolate_One]

I think the funniest part of this is how IGN gave this a 5/10 because there’s no way you could see this film and hate on it. It’s a refreshing take on the franchise and if it leads towards a new continuity or ongoing series then I’m here for it.

[Grizabeebles]

"Megatron is more grey in this movie".

So what you're saying Bob, is that he has the *morality* of a DeLorean too now...

[Caernath]

My favorite piece of Transformers media has always been Beast Wars. It had a good mixture of cartoon silliness and deserved drama, while growing Transformer lore beyond G-1, by using continuity as seasoning instead of the main course.

[tiwanx]

Autonomous Robots and Deceptive Constructs

[soopakoopa]

The caste system on Cybertron seems to be a recurring theme in every continuity now. In the IDW comics it was based on what you transformed into at birth with construction vehicles being the lowest, in xbox games and Prime, it was similar, and now this movie.

[fireflyf]

"... a very solid movie about cartoon robots."

And at that point I'm convinced and will continue watching the review after i see the movie.

[jinpei]

Happy 40th anniversary to the Transformers ❤

[matthewbankey]

It’s a lovely thought that this movie has the potential to be nominated for awards, it’s just a shame it probably won’t win; most awards, especially the Academy Awards, are basically predisposed to hand the award to whatever Disney or Pixar put out that year (with a few exceptions, thank you Into the Spider-verse).

[denelian]

This is actual exciting.
The Bay movies made me _miss_ original Transformers, i was born in 77, and i spent most of my elementary years fighting to get Transformers and Voltron, so it's really nice to see Transformers return to what i remember...

[claytonrios]

This movie has the touch and the power!

[beoweasel]

It sounds like the writers took a whole bunch of ideas that had been floating around in the various transformers settings and slapped them together. The premise of a caste system where one group is forced to act as miners was present in the Transformers: Animated series, though the Caste system being based on transformation was also prevalent in the IDW comic (however, the Caste System in the comic was centered around what you could transform into and thus dictated what you were allowed to BE in Cybertronian society).

3:50 Again, I'm reminded of the comic, though in the comic it was the other way around, Orion was working as a law enforcement officer while Megatron, though initially a miner, would later become a gladiator and sparked (hey, another pun) an underground resistance movement dedicated to overthrowing the corrupt regime of Zeta Prime, the Decepticons.