Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 3.0
Killing off the good guys....a big NO NO!
Imagine starting a business and inventing a product that everyone loves. After a while you become tired and decide to do away with your best selling product. You do so and eventually find yourself in turmoil, losing all your customers and fan base, wondering why you made the move to begin with. That is the same here with transformers. The movie was being made around the same time another title (GI Joe the movie) was also supposed to be released. This movie also had the "kill off the main character" idea but after the backlash transformers got the studio edited GI Joe. One thing you NEVER want to do is kill off your main attraction. A good saying is "if it aint broke, don't fix it" rings true here. The 20th anniversary cover is how this movie should have been. No Rodimus prime! ONLY optimus! Then, you see the next "leader" ultra magnus getting blown to bits, but the junk guys put him back together. Gee, they couldn't have done the same for ironhide? prime? ratchet? or do they not matter anymore because they aren't raking in the big bucks?This could have been 1 and a half hours of kicking decepticon butt once and for all. Instead we see the good guys dropping like flies. Primes death will always be remembered as the big F up of this.