Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 2.0
The beginning of the end of the Transformers in US
After seeing this movie , like many other fans, I could only draw one conclusion, the guys who made this film, made it clearly for money and to capitalize on the popularity of the Transformers. Worst part is they write a stupid ending and managed to kill of several of the best Transformers most notable is Optimus Prime. The Transformers series was a great show between good vs. evil with the good guys winning at the end. However, somebody forgot to tell the writers that. The animation is great but meaningless after Optimus Prime dies the life of movie was slowly slipping away. Most fans hate this movie and I can see why when it could have clearly been written better. The series continued after this movie but became less popular and drove fans toward other cartoon shows that dont kill of the good guys!!Not much as plot goes, the writers seem to make the moviesas they went along. Optimus Primes and Autobots getattacked by the Decepticons near their home base.Optimus tries to protect Ultra Magnus then gets killed.Megatron is also fatally wounded.Megatron then gets thrown out like scrap metal only to berecreated by Unicron (Orson Welles) as Galvatron.Galvatron then sneaks attacks and kills Lord Starscream(Chris Latta) in one of the films most popular but weak scene.That kinda describes the whole movie it seems to be a bigcommerical for the series. Yes the animation is wonderfuland the score is incredible, but the movie is wasted becauseits just a marketing ploy for Hasbro to reep the Transformersfranchise for all its worth.The writers of the series then saw their mistakes and ofcourse brought back Optimus and even brought back StarScreamfor several eps following the movie.The movies does introduce a couple of key character the Quintessons another robotic race that created the Autobotsand Decepticons but then became evil and basically want to rulethe universe.