Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
awesome
After a nights reminiscing in the pub about Transformers I hunted down the movie again and with a group of friends we huddled down to watch one of the greatest movies of all time. Non-stop all out from the moment you hit the play button, a dark rollercoaster ride of guns, violence, shocks and tears. A kids movie?The highlight is the stunning battle sequence which opens the movie. Childhood memories literally engraved on my mind were relived as heroes fall in battle, quite shocking now nevermind when I was 6. The movie is fantastically paced, its very fast and the soundtrack (a jolly rock based affair mainly from Stan Bush) will have your adrenalin in overdrive. It is brutal battle sequences which make this movie more than just a childs film, the same being true of cartoon films like Watership Down. Then the chaos pauses as Optimus Prime announces "Megatron must be stopped... no matter the cost." As he slowly transforms the inevitable dawns on you and tears may fall.The actual storyline is highlighted by the awsome menace that is Unicron, and he's actually quite haunting and mysterious - certainly not a baddy to laugh at. My main concern re-watching was the `kiddy' element which often emerged in the series but not a single moment made me cringe. Quite simply one of the greatest films I have ever seen.