I was not a “Transformers” guy growing up. I didn’t watch the show, and I never played with the toys (I was a “Ninja Turtles” kid). I didn’t even see the 1986 animated film until a few weeks ago. As ...

In modern IP culture, you occasionally get films that feel like total filler, movies that only exist to remind people that, oh yeah, that franchise is still around. 2024 movie theaters have already ...

There is a mind-numbing thud that greets the arrival of each new entry in the live-action “Transformers” franchise, so it’s a relief to say that “Transformers One” finds the robots back in their ...

After seven live-action movies, including last year’s “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” the shape-shifting Autobots and Decepticons return to their animated roots with “Transformers One.” The new ...

Ok, that’s more like it. “Transformers One," opening Friday, is the first fully digitally animated “Transformers” film and the first animated feature in the enduring franchise about giant robots that ...

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In recent years, the Autobots and the Decepticons have kept their war for Cybertron and Earth’s future on the silver screen focused on the live-action world. Not since Transformers The Movie, released ...

Upon its release in 1986, Nelson Shin’s “The Transformers: The Movie” was massively influential — less as entertainment inspired by a popular line of children’s toys than one that was willing to kill ...

Leave it to the medium of animation to infuse new life into an intellectual property that has diluted itself with each sequel spawned for the big screen. “Transformers One,” which serves as a prequel ...

The likes of Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry, Scarlett Johansson and Keegan-Michael Key lend their voices to this raucously entertaining and emotive new movie. Plenty of ‘Transformers’ fans who ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry star in the animated prequel to the popular franchise, exploring the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron. It is admittedly a futile exercise to get ...