Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
a bit lacking in my opinion
the special features to me seemed rather annorexic. i would have expected a lil more meat on them. i was hoping they could do a little better than have susan blu, the voice of a character not central to the story, in an interview segment. the interviews with nelson shin made me feel like i was watching some old crappy godzilla movie with all the subtitles. the deleted scenes/test footage was a total joke as they went too fast that anyone prone to epeleptic seizures would be having one while watching. also they didn't really offer much. the Q&A; was kinda cute. the trailers were cool to see but of the 8 or so that they put on the disc they all pretty much looked and sounded the same (minor differences being the announcer saying "now playing" instead of "opens friday") kinda gets grating after the first 2 or 3. some of the vintage toy commercials looks like they scoured their VHS collection for whatever they could find. you mean to tell me that a media/electronics giant like sony can't use some of that high tech wizzardry to clean those commercials up? for christs sake i could see the noise lines from the tape. have yet to watch with commentary or the activate autobot city feature but after what i have seen i am almost afraid to... the one thing i can honestly say they did perfectly was clean up the picture. the colors are vivid and sharp. the backgrounds seem more lively. as a whole the picture seems much brighter and for this reason alone i gave it four stars. the side by side comparison was a nice touch too. kinda a "look what we can do" thing. but as for the interviews? i mean i doubt that any of the actors are gonna be remembered for their roles in this film (hell... nimoy at one time didn't like being associated with the spock character. doubt that? look for "i am not spock" written by the pointy eared man himself) but i also doubt that sony BMG even asked them for an interview. would have been cool to get their take on doing the movie.and that's my take...... dear lord i have transformed into a babbling idiot...