10 Awful Looking Upcoming Movies That Will Make Serious $$$

Hasbro couldn't have, in their wildest of dreams, imagined Transformers (first and foremost a toy line, let's not forget) getting the kind of film and TV traction they have enjoyed throughout the last four decades. This was boosted to a new level in 2007 when Michael Bay began an empire of diabolical, CGI noise-fest filmmaking on the shoulders of the property - an empire that has delivered seven tremendously profitable films to date.

And just when the road seemed to be shortening, the headlights dimming, the threat of a Transformers-less generation looming on the horizon, along comes Transformers One. Taking a break from live action, the series is journeying into animation, with an origin story set on the Transformers' home planet Cybertron, featuring all the big names - Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron - with an A-list cast of voice actors behind them.

But, rather than taking this as an opportunity to rectify the failings and excesses of the live-action films, it is doubling down on them, with the same nonsense battles, dumb humour and a truly horrifying visual style. In a time when we have animation as gorgeous and thoughtful as the Spider-Verse movies, Transformers One is simply unacceptable.

But Transformers still has major pop culture penetration and massive draw. As ever, it will be easy for parents to switch off and let the kids go square-eyed, and if it doesn't make it into high nine figures globally, we'll eat our neural circuits.