The big surprise of the new Transformers trailer is it looks kind of fun
I know I shouldn’t be excited about a Transformers film because of a good trailer. The franchise has had great marketing in the past, carefully concealing the bloated melodrama, offensive caricatures, and puerile humor. And yet I’m kind of, sort of, maybe a little bit intrigued by Transformers: The Last Knight.
It’s not just this new trailer that has me seriously considering paying to see a Transformers film. My colleague Bryan Bishop spoke somewhat kindly of early footage shown at CinemaCon last month. A lot of the wild moments he described — knights, magicians, sentry droids, Mark Wahlberg dodging explosions — appear in this trailer, set to an almost laughably wrought score.
Perhaps why I’m optimistic is because this movie could be…
