VoltronDefenderOfTheUniverse

After years in development, a film based on the '80s animated series Voltron is reportedly moving forward. Normally, news about a big-budget movie starring giant robot cats from outer space would make me happy. But not today. Not when the producers of the proposed film are already comparing their project to Michael Bay's bloated Transformers movies.

According to THR's Risky Biz Blog, one of the film's producers compared Voltron favorably to Transformers and called it "the personification of the human spirit, a quality that will set this movie apart."

Bleak translation: The robots will have zero personality and we'll fill the movie with irritating human characters that are nothing like their cartoon counterparts and that no one will care about. Oh, and the movie will be "epic." Like two hours too long epic.

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