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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 |
 "Disney can take their movies and stick em up their wazoos"Disney artists need to take lessons from this movie. Disney uses a lot of lazy computer animation, which usually looks horrible. This movie is 99 percent actual hand drawn animation. All of which looks superb. The music is also great. About 6 great songs with that 80's hard rock attitude. For another example for great hand drawn animation, check out G.I. Joe the movie.  "Oh the plotholes........oh the fun!"There are a lot of problems with this movie. Why do they blow up one Transformer only to put him back together again, and yet they do nothing to try and save Optimus Prime from his minor wounds? Why do the Transformers need a female bot when they don't reproduce? Why does Unicron eat Galvetron when the latter is holding the thing that will destroy him? Where does the cargo hold of Optimus Prime's truck phase go after he transforms...and where did it come from in the first place?? And yet despite all these problems, you know what? Its all just good fun! This movie is not only a reminder of how fun my childhood was, but its such a perfect example of the 80's in general. There are all the mandatory characters from 80's TV shows, and the soundtrack...oh my god. If the soundtrack doesn't make you want to stick purple feathers in your hair and cavort around in shoulderpads and polka-dot nylons, then I don't know what will. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I say all this because I'm trying to point that you should watch this for nostalgia and fun. If you watch this expecting the greatest animated film since "Wings of the Honneamise" then I can only point at you and laugh in pity. Fascinating voice cast too. Leonard Nimoy as Megatron. Eric Idle as a French-Mongolian robot gang leader. Robert Stack adds into that cast, and the guy that did the Micro-Machine commercials back in the late 80's/early 90's is here as Blur. Finally...and no I'm not making this up...Orson Welles himself as Unicron. [close-up of Unicron's mouth] Oh yeah, I've got one more comment to make. They have a good rock soundtrack the entire movie until the final showdown, and then they break out in the soft rock tone, "You've got the touch!" This is the equivalent to having "I've Had the Time of My Life" burst out during in the showdown between Neo and Agent Smith in "The Matrix." My friends and I had a good laugh at that. "The best of theTransformer's movies."I went to see this movie when I was a teen in the theaters. It was an awesome movie to see in the theaters. Now my son is into the Transformers and found my VHS of the movie and plays it all the time. He actually likes it better than ARMADA, ENERGON,BEAST WARS and MACHINE WARS. About 4 years ago I went thru a lot of trouble getting a VHS of the movie (It took me over a year of searching and finally I got it from a Canadian video company). I'm glad to see the DVD has come out. It is a great movie a lot of action, humor and watching it with my son he sees that war has consequences. Every now and then we will put sound thru the stereo and put the headphones on. Now I got to get the DVD because he may wear out the VHS. "Till all are One......."As a child I was obsessed with the transformers, together with about 40 million other boys of my age. This whole concept of a vehicle that could transform into a humanoid form, wich not only had a deep character but also a form of spirituality, is very mind stimulating. Transformers The Movie is a modern myth, like Star Wars, only Star Wars is very limited in comparison to the Transformers. Like all good myths this movie has certain universal themes, the latter I shall describe below: - The battle between good and evil (Autobots vs Decepticons) - That wich transcends and unites good and evil (the infinte danger of Unicron that would wipe out all existence). - A secret power from within, a spiritual essence (the Autobotmatrix). - The transcendence of the hero (HotRod becoming Rhodimus Prime). - The transcendence of the villain (Megatron becoming Galvatron). - The exploration of an unknown realm (Cup and HotRod visiting Quintessa). - The victory over the subconciouss mind (when Cup and HotRod are thrown into the Sharkticon pool they even go deeper, and drive in circles, thus creating a vortex wich throws the water out giving them free game to battle the Sharkticons). - True comradry and friendship (well, this is just all over the movie). - The rise and fall of pride (Starscream's coronation). These are just a few wich are displayed but I think you have to watch the movie and decide for yourself. I rate this movie five stars because it is such a wonderfull myth (but a myth wich is greatly animated and highly entertaining and has fantastic music). And yes, maybe there are a few flaws like Starscream losing his foot and two seconds later there's nothing wrong with him and yes I would like to see some Unicron history but these are all details. Till all are One....... "One word AWSOME"I went to see this movie when I was a teen in the theaters. It was an awesome movie to see in the theaters. Now my son is into the Transformers and found my VHS of the movie and plays it all the time. He actually likes it better than ARMADA, ENERGON BEAST WARS and MACHINE WARS. About 4 years ago I went thru a lot of trouble getting a VHS of the movie (It took me over a year of searching and finally I got it from a Canadian video company). I'm glad to see the DVD has come out. It is a great movie a lot of action, humor and watching it with my son he sees that war has consequences. Every now and then we will put sound thru the stereo and put the headphones on. Now I got to get the DVD because he may wear out the VHS. |
