The Transformers are back in theaters this week with Transformers One, the first animated movie in the franchise in nearly four decades. It’s also a big step up from many of the live-action ...

Thus far, there have been nine Transformers movies and, for the most part, they represent blockbuster cinema at its worst. Over-produced, loud, filled with cookie cutter characters, and riddled with ...

An especially interesting virtue in director Josh Cooley’s vision for Transformers One is how it tees up Orion Pax and D-16’s later mythic reputations as Optimus Prime and Megatron. As a prequel, ...

Since the first animated Transformers movie debuted in 1986, the franchise has produced a relatively small lineup of films — eight in total, with a ninth on the horizon. For clarity, that’s seven ...

The Transformers film franchise spans four decades, with multiple animated and live-action entries. The first entry, 1986's The Transformers: The Movie, was born out of the animated series that ...

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 ...

Transformers One is a major change of pace for this long-running Hasbro franchise. Not only is it the first feature-length animated movie starring the Robots in Disguise since 1986’s Transformers: The ...

The Transformers began in 1984 as both a toy and a TV show from Hasbro about two robot divisions, the Autobots and Decepticons, engaged in a never-ending struggle for power. Decepticons set out to ...

Transformers is one of those franchises that, for better or worse, keeps rolling out movies, and we keep showing up to watch them. Maybe it’s nostalgia, maybe it’s just the irresistible joy of seeing ...