Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 3.0
Good movie as far as overall story for Transformers, however
First, this movie is NOT going to leave "mental scarring" on little kids. I saw this movie as a kid and I was indeed shocked and surprised at seeing my heros of the first two seasons blown away and/or melted....but not "mentally scarred" as one reviewer put it.However, that being said, I could have done without the tiring rock music blaring at me through the whole movie. We loved watching this movie as friends growing up even in high school, but by the end I was always mentally tired out from the blaring hard rock music played after each fight with screaming punk rock lyrics.But to me, even worse than that, the one (or two depending on which version you see) curse word that was mentioned in the movie was COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE and shameful for a movie that includes a large child audience (really doesn't need to be in any kind of movie but especially not a kids movie). THAT is what really SHOCKED me more than anything else seeing this movie on video for the first time. Some may think I sound behind the times in my thinking...to you I can only say flattery will get you nowhere ;)BUT, this movie does get three stars for it's sci fi story, it's animation, it's ties to the tv series linking the first generation lead by optimus prime (who dies in the beginning, making everyone back in 1986 mad) and the second generation lead by the new Rodimus Prime. Also this movie opens up the Transformer universe to a wide variety of new friends and enemies (The Junkions, the Quintessons, the Sharkticons and of course Unicron).