Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
Historic, one of the greatist US cartoon movie productions
This movie is historic because it was the first time a lead character was killed off in a cartoon series intended for kids. This resulted in 1000's of letters from angery parents and kids and led to a script rewrite for GIJoe the movie (another classic).80's rock soundtrack really adds to the experiences, the movie stands fairly well on it's own, but will holds special meaning to long time fans of the series.Cartoons have pretty much gone to hell these days, The Transformers was epic, the show only lasted four seasons (98 episodes), but it was complete in the end, with the final 3 episodes concluding the series with the bad guys defeated. This movie takes place somewhere in the middle of the series, it picks up about 13 years after the cartoon series left off (at the end of season two) in the year 2005, many new transformers are introduced, old characters are killed off, and the leadership roles are changed out for both good and bad. The seaons that followed continued on with the story and eventually was concluded due to a drop in ratings, the series continued on in Japan into the early 90's with three more seasons.I wish Rhino would put this out on DVD, It would also be great if they would release a box set on DVD (like was done in Japan on Laserdisc) with the first two seasons and the last two seaons.