Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes. Did anyone ask for this? Did Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner ask for too much money?

Movie origin stories have finally reached their nadir with "Transformers One," the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes. Did anyone ask for this? Did Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner ask for too much money?

ILM tells IndieWire about innovating a handmade animated look influenced by the '80s cartoon series for the origin story about Optimus Prime and Megatron.

Transformers One” is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends, in theaters beginning Sept. 20.

The camera is constantly swiveling and the violence — assault-weapon lasers, booming cannons, light torture, martial arts crunching moves, beating a rival with their own amputated limb and

Transformers One' is overly protective of Transformers mythology, but at least it earns its investment in the story, unlike the live action movies, which have yet to transform into anything interesting.