Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
You've got the Touch! You've got the Power!!!!
This is the definitive movie of the 80s! With a twist-laden storyline and detailed animation (during its time), Transformers the Movie blew me away when I first saw as a kid. Fast forward years later and it still blows me away. The creators were brave enough to kill off the popular characters so you have a sense of unpredictability and they also made the Decepticons more sinister and less fumbling than the series. The voices of Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Idle, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, among others add a "bigness'" in the movie. The soundtrack, though cheesy, is a sheer guilty pleasure. From the title track that antedates The Darkness to the Van Halen/Survivor sounding songs of Stan Bush, Dare and The Touch (which resurfaced as the song being recorded by Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights), it is a perfect companion to the blistering action of the Autobots vs. Decepticons. What makes it less than perfect? The design of Rodimus Prime (a Lamborghini with a trailer?!). Didn't like it then, still don't like it now. Yet, it is still my favorite animated movie. It's also my 6 year old kid's favorite.