Original sentence: It is also noticably different in tone and visual style than the television series; the visuals are more akin to Japanese anime, and Decepticon characters seem less bumbling, killing in without hesitation
Edited sentence: It is also noticably darker in tone and visual style than the television series; the visuals seem more akin to Japanese anime, and Decepticon characters seem less like bumbling Keystone Cops, killing in cold blood without hesitation.While this was likely intended to make way for new lines of toys, it gives the film a deeper emotional resonance than would give the franchise a staying power long after the toys and series faltered (living on, for example, in the Dreamwave comics, whose tone is very much similar to the film)