The film delivers an engaging, character-driven story that revitalizes the series with a fresh take on its iconic heroes and villains.

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

There are, happily, no human characters in this film. What a smart move this is for “Transformers One.” The terrific animation makes that possible for this reboot (and, I hope, for the sequels that soon will follow.

As origin stories go, director Josh Cooley's breezy, action-packed genesis tale reintroduces Optimus Prime, Megatron and the rest of the Transformers gang, without any pesky humans hanging around the edges of the frame to muck things up.

Friendship break-ups are a tried-and-tested theme in the world’s most popular stories. There’s X-Men’s Professor X and Magneto, fighting over the best way to protect the discriminated mutants. Over at Westeros,