Product: The Transformers - The Movie (1986)
Rating: 3.0
Disappointing Re-Issue
Overall, a disappointment, considering this is a Sony release, and not some home-made convention product. It seems they spent more time doing the menus.Widescreen? All they did was cut off the top and bottom of movie. What a joke.Well, I'll admit, the remastered colors look great. It's nice to see the original movie teaser, and the tiny bit of deleted scenes.As for the handful of tv commercials, they're just transfers from 3rd or 4th generation video of some fans' vhs recordings.The Scramble City episode does not even have the Japanese track, just some ad-lib fan commentary, with uninsightful comments. Yes, we know what "combiner" Transformers are. Duh. If they left off the commentary, any newbie could figure out where it fits in the timeline.No English subtitles anywhere! Not for the Japanese commercials, and not even for the movie! You would think these die-hard fans would take the time to translate. Well, I guess many of us know the movie word for word by now.The interviews and commentaries consist of rhetorical questions and trivia that any passing fan would be aware of already. There are some dumb questions they ask the writers/producers, such as, "If you were a transformer, what transformer would you be?" "What would Ms. Optimus Prime and Ms. Megatron sound like?"Yes, we all know about the "swear word" scenario. By now, who cares?