Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
An incredible paradigm of modern capitalism
As most of you already know, the way to hook children is to make incredible characters that translate easily to incredible toys. This will make you a millionare. If you look at popular toys today, you'll realize that they are often complex. Consider Power Rangers, a show that was definetely devoid of any human interest, but still an incredible source of imaginative violent little toys. I won't even get into Pokemon (which by the way, I'm told that since I loved Transformers I can't very well insult Pokemon. I believe that's kind of false. Pokemon exists on a large cast of threadbare characters, with toys that I could never have played with. I can see it fueling an imagination, but where's the personality?). Transformers is different from the cartoons and action toy manufacturers of today. Transformers existed with hundreds of characters that all had distinctive personalities, far different from the ninja turtles, power rangers, and pikachus of today. And the toys were intensely fun. What does all of this have to do with the film? Well, I'll tell you! Transformers at first glance can be dismissed as nothing more than a carefully planned add campaign. Partially true, mostly for the executives who sold the show, but as for the people involved in the show, and especially the movie, human interest, emotion, intense scenes of violence, and characters you grew to love mixed together. To be a child at the time of Transformers was to be enriched by something with a brain, even if it was occasionally cheesy. If only Capitalism could always be this cool.