Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
Definitive Movie
Some Trasnformers fans are very bitter people, look past the death of Optimus Prime and you have a heroic coming of age movie which showcases the new Transformers admirably.When evil planet devourer Unicron first graces our screens for the first time, it' a graphic, destructive sympothy that is only surpassed by the Deceptacon assault on Autobot City Earth, the final encounter between Optimus Prime and Megatron is one of the greatest fight scenes in ANY film, animated or otherwise (One shall stand...one shall fall), and shows us all that sometimes, the good guys don't ALWAYS win...at least for a while.Oh, and pay no attention to some idiotic reviews, Prime's death IS pretty sad, AND it caused the fracnhise to plummet to levels that ended Generation One...AND it gave us the whiny, brooding Rodimus Prime, but given that this movie shows us everything that they could have done RIGHT with the character, ("Dark Awakening" and "The Burden Hardest to Bear" are other examples of how good Roduimus can be) and the themes of leadership, sacrifice, and heroism, make this film more than acceptable to people who appreciate it, the TRUE Transformers fans and not ones spoiled by Beast Wars and thier own biased preferences for Optimus Prime