Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 3.0
Movie was fabulous...DVD a little weak
I'm honestly not sure if TF:TM is the best animated movie ever made in America, or if my childhood obsession with it is clouding my rationale. But it's a must for animation fans in general and practically a Bible for fans of TFs in specific.There are enough reviews about the movie itself here, so I'll just say a few words about the DVD. The storyboards of un-animated scenes and interview with Vince DiCola are both fun, but they weren't all the DVD could have included. TF:TM is a five-star movie, but the DVD only scores a 3 at most.Being an animated feature, there wouldn't be any outtakes or deleted scenes anyway, so that's fine. But no trailer? I'd have killed for a trailer! I'd still kill for a trailer! Or maybe some toy commercials from the 80's featuring the movie action figures, like the GI Joe DVD. Or, like the Dragonball DVDs, I'd have liked a mini-featurette about how the Transformers got to the point where they were at when the movie began, or where they went afterwards. Wouldn't those have been cool? Plus, it would have been a kick to see the scrolling prologue and epilogue which were in the UK version of the movie. And what's with the full-screen [stuff]? This movie was in theaters, y'know! Where's my widescreen option???Still, no point in complaining now. TF:TM was, unfortunately, a box-office flop, so we're lucky we got this. I don't see a Criterion Edition in the Transformers' future, so buy the DVD and be content that you own the best copy available.