Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
DID THAT AUTOBOT JUST USE THE 'S' WORD?
My son and I watched this movie together for our weekly boys' night ritual and both of us enjoyed the non-stop action and mildly amusing humor sprinkled here and there. The dialogue isn't great and the animation is not very fetching in some scenes, but for the most part it kept our attention and fed my son's appetite for every thing 'Transformers'. The one troubling moment happens in the first 1/3 of the movie when one of the autobots delivers a shocking expletive. In the 20 years since this movie debuted animated shows like South Park have elevated the swear word to an art form, but I wasn't quite prepared for that particular word to appear in this 1980's cartoon movie. It is a bit awkward. At least if it had been a bad guy I could have turned into a moral lesson about making bad choices; instead I was left to hope the boy had completely missed that line. This isn't to say my son hasn't watched a movie here and there with questional language, but if he repeats the robot potty words in front of my wife I'm the one who is going to be in for it. Just a word of warning, this is a great little flick but there are a couple of lines of surprise verbage mixed in with all the violence and it may not be right for the youngest among us.