This shiny hyperactive animated origin story of young Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) and D-16 (Megatron) shows how the giant robotic creatures evolved from being best friends to sworn enemies, starting off as working miner-bots (who cannot transform) who enter the spectacular Iacon 5000 cross-city race, go on a quest to find the legendary Matrix Of Leadership, uncover a huge secret about the war with the Quintessons, gain their transformer powers and go after the duplicitous Sentinel Prime - all in one movie! The film uses a visually appealing fusion of anime and photorealistic styles, which employs extraordinary depth and level of detail. It boasts a quality starry lead voice cast (including Chris Hemsworth, Brian Tyree Henry and Scarlett Johansson), who deliver the snappy dialogue with ease), and other familar Transformers characters pop up along their journey. The editing - at times almost flashcutting - and coverage give the film an engaging and exhausting momentum that is nevertheless hugely impressive for an animated film of this scale, supported by the breadth of storytelling that it offers within its runtime. The eventual scene that marks the turning point in the duo's relationship and its aftermath are surprisingly shocking, and if nothing else this lively action-adventure serves as a very good primer for the Bay-verse live-action movies.
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