As of last night, the new Transformers trailer went online. This is not the fleeting 2 microsecond glimpse of a silhouette smashing the Mars Rover teaser bit which I caught in the theatre just before Garfield: Tale of Two Kitties. (Yeah, I watched Garfield. Shut up in the back there.) This one shows a whole bunch of Cybertronian aliens, in various modes and transforming. There’s even a shot of the protoform stasis pod crashing down.
I am happily surprised that there are no loud rock and / or rap music in the trailer to mark the movie as “cool” to the teens. It’s just a bunch of quick cuts of… well, lots of bits that made me and Irfan very happy as we went to bed last night. It’s not an adaptation of any of the Transformers sub-universes. I’m not even going to go “But Megatron was a gun!” or “That’s not what the Creation Matrix looks like!” kind of purist-mode.
As long as there are giant transforming robots blasting crap up, I’m happy. I’m not going to gripe over differences between the cartoon and this movie.
Bumblebee flips on his battle mode helmet. Notice the Autobot logo on his forehead.
Bumblebee
Optimus Prime transforms into robot mode as Ratchet and Bumblebee looks on in vehicle mode.
Optimus Prime
Throw is My Little Pony into the movie as well and Hasbro’s a happy camper.
My Little Pony
I just gots two words for dis movie right here…..Peter Cullen…..nuff said, suckas.
They’ve updated the trailer with a single new detail. You can now hear Peter Cullen’s voice speak at the end: “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”
I heard that, and I pooed my pants….it was just……makes me wanna cry
This trailer made me very happy…..