Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
The Best Transformers Movie Ever Made!
This 1986 version of Transformers: The Movie is absolutely fantastic! The sound has been remixed into 5.1 and sounds excellent. The animation is also absolutely incredible. This movie upconverts to high-definition very well when played on an HDTV.This movie gave birth to some of my favorite all-time characters. Galvatron -- the way he appears in Transformers: The Movie -- is by far my most favorite Decepticon of all time. The legendary scene where Galvatron pays Starscream back by turning him into a cloud of dust left everyone in the audience in disbelief.I also love it that Galvatron/Megatron racked up more kills than any other character in the movie. Prior to Galvatron, Megatron was my favorite character. At the end of almost every daily episode of Transformers, I always was left with the thought "If it wasn't for that idiot Starscream, Megatron would have defeated the Autobots."Yeah, I realize Rodimus Prime tossed Galvatron out of Unicron halfway across the galaxy, but everybody knows that Rodimus was on a Matrix form of adrenaline rush at the time. We never saw that happen again in the future. Instead we saw Galvatron kick the butt of Rodimus Prime and blast Omega Supreme off the screen.In my opinion, it really is a shame Galvatron ended up permanently being crazy after landing in the plasma. And I believe it's an even bigger shame that The Matrix didn't cure Galvatron's "madness" problem when Optimus Prime opened The Matrix in the episode called "The Return of Optimus Prime." But let's be honest, if the Decepticons were being lead by the Transformers: The Movie version of Galvatron who was so powerful and intelligent, the series would have been over within three episodes unless some Autobot opened up The Matrix again (something that couldn't happen because The Matrix was empty).Back to Transformers: The Movie. I gotta admit that even "I" cried when Optimus Prime died. And of course I cried all the way home when I thought Megatron/Galvatron was dead. But, when you get a cliffhanger ending like that, leaving everyone in the audience crying, you know the movie did its job of providing emotional "entertainment."This new 20th Anniversary DVD is excellent. I wish they would release this on Blu-ray in North America. I see it was released in the United Kingdom and can be purchased for an incredibly inflated price, but that's not something I'm going to pay. I actually don't even recommend that you buy this DVD for the incredibly inflated price it now sells for online.Eventually, Transformers: The Movie will be released on Blu-ray. The smart thing to do is buy it when the disc is first released so that way you get it at a lower cost. For some reason these idiots only make a small number of the discs, which means the price actually rises as time passes (unlike other movies where prices decrease as time passes).Transform and Roll Out!