Variety

‘Transformers One’ Gave Optimus Prime and Megatron a ‘Youthful Naivete’ in Their Origin Story

To make Paramount and Hasbro’s first fully CG-animated Transformers movie, Academy Award-winning director Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”) turned to Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects studio ...
NPR

'Transformers One' is an animated origin story with a light touch

The Transformers franchise has been around for decades, and it's brought us many toys, TV shows and movies. Now, in the new animated film Transformers One, the origin story of Optimus Prime and ...
Variety

‘Transformers One’ Director Josh Cooley on the Influence of Art Deco, ‘Ben-Hur’ and the Original 1986 Animated Film

For at least one generation of “Transformers” fans, the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 animated feature “The Transformers: The Movie” was a formative moviegoing experience, if not a fully ...
Houston Chronicle

Review: Animated 'Transformers One' lives up to the franchise's promise

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Long before Optimus Prime and Megatron, robots yearn for better jobs in ‘Transformers One’

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 ...