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Like any frankness wishing to prolong the auscultation of one's navel, Transformers returns to the origins. Was there an urgency to tell the story of how Optimus Prime and Megatron became sworn enemies? We'll let you be the judge, but the panache of this animated film might surprise you.Transformers: The Beginningt therefore attempts to restore some order to a complicated mythology, where extraterrestrial robots are transformed into vehicles from our own country. And to achieve this, Josh Cooley – formerly of Pixar to whom we owe Toy Story 4 – goes through… the exploration of the daily life of blue-collar workers assigned to the mines.
The XXL fights are still there, perhaps even more gigantic thanks to the absence of human scale (the action takes place only on Cyberton, the Transformers' home planet), but a good part of the story focuses on the class struggle and the tyrants who very consciously block the social ladder.
We are not in Marx either, yet these radical biases are surprising in the context of a saga which had never been touched by the slightest political questioning. The film's strong point is that it manages to juggle between the seriousness imposed by its plot and the cartoonish comedy that only animation can allow. If we will have to accept somewhat cold character designs and a long first part for neophytes, the sequel, spectacular in its pyrotechnic unleashing, will put everyone in agreement.
Of Josh Cooley With the voices (in original version) of Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Keegan-Michael Key… Duration 1 hour 44 minutes. Released October 23, 2024