Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
A great movie but the DVD itself could have done better
After seeing a online review of the Transformers Movie, I decided to pickup a copy to see for myself if it was as good as the reviewer made it out to be. Not having been a fan of the Transformers G1 series or able to see it in theaters, I tried to keep an open mind toward it. So here are my thoughts.The movie itself was great. It had a fast paced storyline, great animation and voice acting, probably the best soundtracks in a movie, and felt fun and enjoyable to watch all around. Perhaps the greatest moment, and definatly my favorite scene out of any movie yet, came toward the end as the Rodimus Prime defeats Galvatron and then escapes Unicron's self destruction with the rest of the Autobots to the tone of Stan Bush's "The Touch". Overall it's a great and enjoyable movie, especially when compared to the live action version. It's one of those movies you watch with a bunch of friends on a Saturday night for fun.The DVD itself is another story, I've done some research about the DVD releases of "The Transformers: the Movie" and have found that each release has at least one thing wrong with it. From what I've seen the main issues I have with this DVD are that the full screen version has not been color corrected as the widescreen version has. This is mainly a minor issue since I don't usually watch the Full screen disk but it seems kinda wasteful to not include it on both disks. Not only that but I've heard that the "Widescreen" version is just the Full-screen version that was formatted in a special way since it was not animated in the "Widescreen" format. A minor grip too is that even remastered some of the colors look kinda off. Hot Rod, for example, looks like he has pink paint on some of his parts rather than the red his toy had. The fact that two disks are included also seems unneeded since DVD's can have video and such on both sides of the disk. On the positive end though, the Bonus features such as the promotional trailers and the deleted/alternate footage was a nice throw in. The Commentary that was included was put together very well since it came not only from the voice actors and the director, but also from the Fan community itself which is nice to see. Even a episode which only aired in Japan called "Scramble City" was included, albiet without the episode's actual soundrack and a commentary from the heads of two famous Transformers fansites was dubbed over it instead.Over all, I Give the movie itself five stars but the DVD itself about three and a half, so for the whole thing we'll just say that it's a four star thing. It's better than previous releases but it still could have used some fine tuning.