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The Transformers - The Movie Director: Nelson Shin Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Running Time: 94 minutes Studio: Rhino Video Region Code: 1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07 Buy from Amazon |
 "The Best Movie Ever"Transformers: The Movie is one of the best movies ever created. Unlike the original first two seasons, the plot extesive and the characters are well developed. The movie brings a much more realistic tone to the series with the death of most of the original characters (even if it was another way for Hasbro to make a quick buck off new toys). What struck me as odd while watching the first two seasons was that none of the Transformers ever died, and the Autobots and Deceptecons are at war! Despite this, I do understand that the show had to be made acceptable for children's televison. The release of Transformers: The Movie benefitted the series tremendously, by increasing the animation and plot quality for the last two seasons as well as giving the series a darker tone fitting for war. While the movie is much darker than the first two seasons, it is a masterpiece of cartooning, music and plot, making it the best movie ever. "Transformers - music rocks"This movie takes me back to my days in grammar school. They gathered everyone into the cafeteria one rainy day and showed this to entertain us. And entertain it did. Its a great cartoon by itself. But now that I'm older I appreciate the soundtrack involved when I play it on DVD. The Canadian Band Kick Axe has a few wonderful tracks on here. There music is terrific. Nice to see everything that's old is new again. What a blast from the past! Kick Axe actually has a new album out too called "IV". More strong music from an amazing band. Hmmm might go pop in my Transformers DVD again now that I think about it. Nice to revisit that music from a time gone bye. "Epicly Good Storytelling."Transformers the Movie takes place after Season 2 and before Season 3. The movie's greatest strengths are that the animation is above and beyond any other Transformers animation before or since. The soundtrack ("You got the touch, you got the power!") is absolutely awesome for the time, and the character development is surprisingly strong for an animated film about robots that turn into vehicles, guns, etc... I remember being heart-broken as a little kid watching Optimus Prime die, and that remains my biggest problem with this movie and with Transformers in general. For whatever unknown stupid reason, the creators decided it would be great to have a new "Prime" so they killed off Optimus and turned Hot Rod into Rodimus Prime in the movie. With the beginning of Season 3, Rodimus Prime was the leader of the Autobots while Galvatron was the leader of basically the Decepticons since Megatron was also given the boot. In my opinion, creators should never ever ever kill off or destroy the main characters of children's television shows. The kids do not understand the "dramatic effect" of killing off the two most popular Transformers, and 20 years later they still won't understand it (take me for instance). With the exception of those deaths this is a great movie that is a whole lot of fun. Spike and Sparkplug go through some seriously scary stuff, and Unicron is the mother of all badguys. What a great movie!! "Without the shadow of a doubt, the greatest animated film ev"First of all, in response to one guy who dismissed the graphics as mediocre. This film was made in the mid-eighties, and even though that alone should dismiss your comment, I believe that when you look at it in a more artistic (advanced) eye, it more than holds it's own. It's a great period piece. Imagine someone seeing Orsen Welle's Citizen Kane and putting it down for not having any color. It would be absurd. It's not the means that are at your disposal that indicate your craftsmanship. It's what you do with what you have. For example. Who will argue the fact that the original Star Wars trilogy is much more sophisticated than these last new so called prequels being puked out every 3 years? I always prefered Rodimus Prime to Optimus Prime, but what you think about that is a matter of opinion and has no bearing on judging the quality of the film. Granted Optimus was a great leader. But there was nothing more he could do for the show. I think it was a very good choice to kill him off cause his superior wisdom was begining to clash with his failure to get rid of the decepticons. I think he died right on time, or else his caracter would start looking like kind of a joke. I find Rodimus's caracter interesting because he was a lot younger than his predecessor, and was given not only the burden of assuming Optimus' rank, but was also confronting a more powerful group of Decepticons. The conflict between what was in his young nature to do, and what he knew he must do, is what I find most appealing about his caracter. And besides, a crimson hot rod is way cooler than a clumsy old big-ass eighteen-wheeler. Anyway, before I start sounding like one of those star treck geeks, I'm gonna round it off by saying that I'm not the review writing type and this is the only time I felt it necessary to write one. It's the only movie I love as much as an adult as I did when I first saw it on the big screen as a child. And to all you naggers. If you don't like it, don't watch it. It wasn't made for you.  "Keep the memory, not the movie."Starting with an all-star cast of voiceover actors, such as Judd Nelson, Robert Stack, Orson Wells, Scatman Crothers, Casey Kasem, and Leonard Nimoy, this is the movie that set the pace for future anime. It's the year 2005, and the Decepticons have taken Cybertron from Optimus Prime, and the Autobots, and their battle to save earth from the Unicrons, and the Decpticons. The Chosen one must take Optimus's place, and open the matrix. As a kid, I loved this movie. After seeing it now, at my age, I realize how bad it was. I think kids will love it, but as an adult, you won't want to sit and watch it with your kids. Move on to something from Japan like Princess Mononoke, or Ghost in the shell for a movie you'll all love. |
