Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
Makes me PROUD to be a Transformers fan!
When I was a young teenager in the mid-80s, I used to watch the Transformers on the afternoon TV all the time, though it made me a little guilty. And I was also a little too embarrassed to go see the big movie about Transformers that came out at the time, so I never got to see it until just recently. Now, as things actually turn out, this is no little boy's cartoon full of big robots blasting each other. Instead, this is quite an elegant sci-fi epic so artfully produced in the very vein of good old Japanese animation with its real emotional impact, real sense of humor, war-style violence, and oh, YES! a little swearing and all - MUCH to my surprise, of course! And yes, it is very touching to see a fatherly old leader of the good robots literally open up his heart to pass on the power of leadership to the nearby young warrior. However, I wish I can see more of the Dinobots and my favorite - the adorable little Bumblebee.