Tag: The Transformers: The Movie

  • ‘Transformers One’: Cast, Plot, Release Date, and Everything We Know So Far

    ‘Transformers One’: Cast, Plot, Release Date, and Everything We Know So Far

    “Transformers more than meets the eye.” This line from the Transformers theme song perfectly sums up what these “robots in disguise” are all about. Originally a shape-shifting toy line from Hasbro in the 1980s, Transformers developed its own film franchise. Before the live-action film series, there was The Transformers, a television series that began in…

  • Toy story: why Hollywood can’t stop kidulting

    Toy story: why Hollywood can’t stop kidulting

    From Detective Pikachu to Sonic the Hedgehog, when did audiences Ok the big brand movie?Orson Welles memorably described his final role, voicing the baddie in 1986 animation The Transformers: The Movie, as “a big toy who attacks a bunch of smaller toys”. Such dismissiveness would be way out of line in today’s moviescape. Instead, we…