Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
"Stalk him, tear him apart, and destroy the matrix..."
A little bit more violent than kids cartoons today, the original Transformers series was a landmark in animation and probably the best cartoon series ever made. In 1986, The Transformers movie was released, and TF fans worldwide were shocked, surprised, stunned, and overjoyed with the results. The storyline is set in 2005, roughly 13 years from the end of the second season of the series (where it left off before the movie). Megatron and his Decepticons have taken over Cybertron completely while Optimus Prime and his Autobots plot to retake their home planet. ... Transformers is explosive from beginning to end, ... Sadly though, after the movie the series was never as great as it once was. An ensemble voice cast including Eric Idle of Monty Python as Wrek-Gar, Judd Nelson as Hot Rod, Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron, and Orson Welles as Unicron. The DVD itself is a bit scarce with extras, but the storyboards for unfinished scenes that never made it into the movie is interesting. Highly recommended to those who remember their childhood.