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The Transformers are going back — all the way back to the 1980s.

And as a kid of that era, WWE star John Cena thinks that’s the perfect time period to hit the reset button for the popular film series.

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“I think that’s a great way to start over,” Cena, 41, says down the line from Los Angeles.

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After five films directed by Michael Bay that were set in modern times, a new spinoff/prequel, Bumblebee (out Friday), centres on the young Charlie Watson (Hailee Steinfeld), who gets drawn into a battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons when she buys an old yellow Volkswagen Beetle that turns out to be Bumblebee, the beloved Autobot sent to protect Earth.

Cena co-stars in the film as Burns, a government agent who wants to blast the warring robots to smithereens.

“There is amazing action in this movie and it is on a grand scope, but a lot of people just love the story. I think it really hammers home the point that if you’re invested in the characters in the movie — and that’s a true hat’s off to Hailee and (director) Travis (Knight) for humanizing Bumblebee — you want to root for them.”