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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 |
 "You've got the Touch! You've got the Power!!!!"This is the definitive movie of the 80s! With a twist-laden storyline and detailed animation (during its time), Transformers the Movie blew me away when I first saw as a kid. Fast forward years later and it still blows me away. The creators were brave enough to kill off the popular characters so you have a sense of unpredictability and they also made the Decepticons more sinister and less fumbling than the series. The voices of Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, among others add a "bigness'" in the movie. The soundtrack, though cheesy, is a sheer guilty pleasure. From the title track that antedates The Darkness to the Van Halen/Survivor sounding songs of Stan Bush, Dare and The Touch (which resurfaced as the song being recorded by Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights), it is a perfect companion to the blistering action of the Autobots vs. Decepticons. What makes it less than perfect? The design of Rodimus Prime (a Lamborghini with a trailer?!). Didn't like it then, still don't like it now. Yet, it is still my favorite animated movie. It's also my 6 year old kid's favorite.  "You Got The Touch! You Got The Power!!!!!"Well let me break the hearts of all you die hard Transformers fans when I say this movie is junk! If you are over the age of 8years old you wont get much out of this dreck. If you are over the age of 8years old and are a fan of this crap Go out and find yourself a girlfriend and a life! Although I must admit I had to see this movie after watching "Boogie Nights" and listening to Dirk Diggler sing "The Touch" from the Transformers movie. (Brought back memories of my sorry ass childhood) I'm still laughing to this day and it's been years since I've seen either of the aforementioned "films" Good luck suckers! ""Oh $h!#! What're we gonna do now!?""CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE! Not the best in animated cinema, so why give it 4 stars? You're reading the ramblings of a die hard Transformers fan. Not the greatest example of Transformers lore, so why did I buy it anyway after seeing it before many times? You can't truely call yourself a Transfan unless you can put up with the rushed POS that was this movie. And we all love this movie for it! I can't quite explain it, you just need to be a child of the 80s to understand. When I first saw it in theaters I was disappointed that they pretty much took what could simply be a mini series on Saturday mornings and put it up on the big screen. No advanced animation to be seen like there would be in Disney movies. About the only thing that IDed this to be a feature film was the corny hair band music that was, popular back then, put in place of the original Transformers cartoon soundtrack. Sure, if you're just looking for Oscar worthy performances or a movie cartoon for your kid, ignore this and go straight to "Megas XLR". Though they haven't made a movie out of it yet. Or get something from the DC animated series of titles like Superman or Batman (original or Beyond). "Definitive Movie"Some Trasnformers fans are very bitter people, look past the death of Optimus Prime and you have a heroic coming of age movie which showcases the new Transformers admirably. When evil planet devourer Unicron first graces our screens for the first time, it' a graphic, destructive sympothy that is only surpassed by the Deceptacon assault on Autobot City Earth, the final encounter between Optimus Prime and Megatron is one of the greatest fight scenes in ANY film, animated or otherwise (One shall stand...one shall fall), and shows us all that sometimes, the good guys don't ALWAYS win...at least for a while. Oh, and pay no attention to some idiotic reviews, Prime's death IS pretty sad, AND it caused the fracnhise to plummet to levels that ended Generation One...AND it gave us the whiny, brooding Rodimus Prime, but given that this movie shows us everything that they could have done RIGHT with the character, ("Dark Awakening" and "The Burden Hardest to Bear" are other examples of how good Roduimus can be) and the themes of leadership, sacrifice, and heroism, make this film more than acceptable to people who appreciate it, the TRUE Transformers fans and not ones spoiled by Beast Wars and thier own biased preferences for Optimus Prime  "The definitive 80s cartoon"Some on the reviews on here are rather unfair, like the guy who says his favourties, the twins weren't in it (actually they were in a couple of scenes that were left on the cutting room floor), but then fails to get the names right of his 'faves' (its SunSTREAKER, not Sundowner). Also, the guy who complains its nothing but one big advert. Well, I hate to shatter your illusions, but so was the original cartoon... aaand the comics... aaand the countless other items of merchandising. This movie is no more blatant an advert than the cartoon show was. So, the negatives for me: Wheelie is annoying, the Junkions are freaky, the fact that futuristic Transformers all seem to have moustaches(!) and its very sad to see some of your fave characters killed off. Now for the positives. As a kid this film blew me away. As an adult, for both nostalgic reasons, AND for the fact it remains a kickass slice of action from start to finish (not to mention contains some of the funkiest animation to this day) it still blows me away. The truly epic scale and detail on Unicron in those opening scenes is as jaw dropping today as it was almost 20 years ago. Do yourself a favour - ignore Transformers: Armada & Transformers: Energon, and stick with Generation One (and the excellent Beast Wars) - you won't be sorry. |
