Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 1.0
sorry fellas, but it was a turkey then and is now
In 1986 I was awash in anticipation over Transformers: The Movie. Like every other kid, I had a ton of worn out Decepticons and Autobots, and I watched the television show religiously. For kids like me, the movie promised a watershed moment in the continuity of the story.I watched this film on DVD for the first time since I saw it in the theater this past week. I remember being extremely let down by the film as an 11 year old, and I was curious if time, and the knowledge that Optimus doesn't really die, would make it cooler for me. Alas, no such luck was to be had.The biggest problem is that by slaughtering most of the existing characters in the first twenty minutes, you are left watching a bunch of robots you never saw before or give much of a rat's behind about, Dinobots excepted. Hot Rod? Ultra who? Compounding the problem was the suspicion I had even at 11 that the creators were killing off the old simply to make room for the new on the show and hence force me to buy them. Need proof this was a bad move? A near fan revolt convinced the creators to resurrect Optimus at the end of the next season. And speaking of dead Autobots, I could have sworn I saw a number of them take much more abuse on the show and survive! In the movie, several are felled by wimpy blasts from the individual Constructicons! And just to address your argument, simply because you can get away with more in the theater doesn't mean you should sacrifice continuity.Another complaint- by that point in the continuity, there were a lot more transformers that didn't have any part in the flick. Devastator was the only one of several really big robots to make an appearance. They could have brought out all of them to take on Unicron. Where is Omega Supreme when you need him?The rest of the story was not much better. Why were the Quintessons there at the time? It was also repetitive... how many times did Glavatron think he had destroyed the Matrix only to be tortured by Unicron? Did anyone else find the Junkions incredibly annoying? Or Daniel? U Got the Touch is a God awful song. The theme for Unicron is lifted directly from the Drago theme in Rocky IV.Most reviewers love this movie, so rock on guys, but my advice to someone who is thinking about purchasing this to relive their childhood is- get season 1 instead!