Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 5.0
Epicly Good Storytelling.
Transformers the Movie takes place after Season 2 and before Season 3. The movie's greatest strengths are that the animation is above and beyond any other Transformers animation before or since. The soundtrack ("You got the touch, you got the power!") is absolutely awesome for the time, and the character development is surprisingly strong for an animated film about robots that turn into vehicles, guns, etc...I remember being heart-broken as a little kid watching Optimus Prime die, and that remains my biggest problem with this movie and with Transformers in general. For whatever unknown stupid reason, the creators decided it would be great to have a new "Prime" so they killed off Optimus and turned Hot Rod into Rodimus Prime in the movie. With the beginning of Season 3, Rodimus Prime was the leader of the Autobots while Galvatron was the leader of basically the Decepticons since Megatron was also given the boot. In my opinion, creators should never ever ever kill off or destroy the main characters of children's television shows. The kids do not understand the "dramatic effect" of killing off the two most popular Transformers, and 20 years later they still won't understand it (take me for instance).With the exception of those deaths this is a great movie that is a whole lot of fun. Spike and Sparkplug go through some seriously scary stuff, and Unicron is the mother of all badguys. What a great movie!!