Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 4.0
Transformers the Movie
Ahh... Transformers: The Movie. The film that changed the franchise forever. This film is infamous for being nothing more than a 90 minute toy ad, but hey what cartoon wasn't a toy commercial. This was the 80's. But Transformers did perfect the art. I'm not really sure how it was marketed in other areas, but the commercials I saw pretty much told me that Optimus Prime was not going to survive the movie. That's probably why I didn't find myself crying when Prime was on his deathbed passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus. What I didn't expect was to see a handful of the other Autobots to get reduced to junk in the first 10 minutes of the film. We have new toys to sell, right? At least they handled it in a realistic fashion. Anyway this movie had everything, an awesome cast, one of the best movie soundtracks ever, epic fight scenes, etc. Makes it hard to forget the sinister purpose of this film.