2007 · animation · action · thriller
Transformers: Beginnings
Directed by Craig Phillips, Michael White Jr., Harold Hayes Jr.22m2007
On their home planet of Cybertron, the Autobots and Decepticons are involved in an explosive battle over the coveted AllSpark. With the fate of the universe at stake, the Autobots send it far from the reaches of the ruthless Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. But there are even more surprises in store when it crash-lands on Earth.
Our read: Transformers: Beginnings (2007) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive animation · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured animation / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- kinetic
- cold
- epic-stakes
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