By Victoria Luxford For 17 years the Transformers franchise has proven bafflingly successful. The four Michael Bay-directed movies, spanning from 2007 to 2017, became a byword for shallow spectacle, while the prequels Bumblebee (2018) and Rise of The Beasts (2023) were at best a marginal improvement. The series now moves into animated territory with the star-studded family film Transformers One. This is the origin story of the Autobots and Decepticons, set on their homeworld of Cybertron. Chris Hemsworth voices Orion Pax, the robot who will become Optimus Prime, but is for now a lowly mining r…