{"id":4375,"date":"2025-07-29T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:14:33","slug":"movie-transformers-one-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/movie-transformers-one-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Transformers One (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2024
Rating: PG
Length: 104 minutes \/ 1.73 hours<\/p>\n

For a series that originally appealed to children, it felt like the Transformers<\/em> movie franchise took a long time to focus on its original demographic again. Sure, the nostalgia bait of the early Michael Bay films led to its continued popularity. But focusing on smaller, origin-based stories like Bumblebee<\/em><\/a> (2018) has brought some life back into the flashy, CGI-heavy explosion fests that these movies had become. That’s why I was pleased to find Transformers One<\/em> (2024) reaching back to the roots of its original audience and focusing on the medium that kicked everything off: animation.<\/p>\n

Compared to the busy, almost incomprehensible action sequences of the previous live-action movies in the franchise, Transformers One<\/em> has focused and well-designed set pieces that lean into the fact that animation can often do more than any live-action\/CGI hybrid could. There was almost a beauty to the simplicity of the character designs instead of the eye-watering detail that plagued the Michael Bay movies. That it took this long to even get a movie like this likely proves that there was a sunk cost fallacy happening behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

Plot-wise, there’s nothing terribly interesting to write home about. As an origin story for Optimus Prime (Chris Hemsworth) and Megatron (Brian Tyree Henry), anyone who knew anything about Transformers<\/em> would know that they wouldn’t be friends by the end of the film. Still, the journey is a fun one, with only a smattering of dumb jokes that will get the kids laughing and a handful of lines that will make the adults chuckle. Ultimately, I felt this movie was more appropriate to show to my children than any of the live action ones (at least for the time being).<\/p>\n

A great modern Transformers<\/em> film to introduce new kids to the franchise, I give Transformers One<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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