digitaldimensiongamin With the announcement that the transformers the movie will be hitting theaters for a limited time in the fall I thought I'd write my review of the beloved film. Man I LOVE IT. It's ones of those films that you know isn't that great but you watch it any way. The animation is Truely a specifical and the music by Vince dicola is a soundtrack that I listen to over and over again aaaah it's an amazing score. The plot is pretty simple and bearbones it's nothing special but one thing you won't be while watching this is bored like I said it's one big ball of 80s fun just listening to the soundtrack alone. If your a transformers fan A MUST WATCH. An animation fan A MUST WATCH. Or just a hardcore 80s nostalgia attict A MUST WATCH. But due to the below average not engaging story gotta give it a 6/10

gbm-68652 The Transformers The Movie is a loud attempt to reboot the series, but destroyed the originality and spirit of the original show. SPOILERS: The Transformers Movie manages to kill off almost every notable character from the show in the first 30 minutes. Actually, the Death count in this children's movie is so enormously high, it's insane. To top things off, Optimus Prime (The Flagship Character of the Franchise)is killed before the plot really gets going, a choice that haunted the franchise for years to come. It's completely obvious that the filmmakers and studio execs wanted to eliminate as many characters as possible so that they could sell new ones for new toys. In this way the film is defining, as it shaped the series for better or worse, but at the same time completely destroyed it.

wrightiswright You know those movie posters full of quotes from 'reputable sources' extolling the virtues of the final product?Well, here's a few for 'Transformers, The Movie'.'A junkyard of creativity''A rusty relic of a bygone era''Destined for the (s)crapheap'The ONE good thing about this merchandise-driven mess is, it's easy to form analogies when you're trying to accurately describe just how bad it is.Here's some less subtle pointers: Terrible, dated animation. Non- stop, awful, believe-in-yourself, bilge 'music'. The mind-numbingly tedious, incoherent robo combat. The attempts at 'jokes' which are so bad you'd assume they were satirising awful one-liners. The colour-coded gender divide, so the one and only female Transformer... Is pink. The stone-cold fact that the late, great Orson Welles gave his last performance in it... As a living planet. Yes, really.I confess, I couldn't make it all the way to the end... It was like trying to swim through treacle. No fun, just hard work and increasingly tiresome. But if you want to join the implausible fandom that exists for this tripe, then go ahead. Just count me out.I'd crush, and melt down the thing, meself... 3/10

lothos-370-690020 At the height of the Transformers popularity, the Makers, Habro, decided that their demographic, had already bought most of the toys in the line. So in order to make parents shell out even more cash, they decided to release this deeply disturbing "movie"/ marketing ploy. How do you ask? Well simply put, by killing every single recognisable character from the original series, and replacing them with all new ones. If corporate America, ever had reason to hold its head in shame this was it. Not only was this series one of the worst offenders in the selling kids crap with 20 minute adverts thinly clothed as cartoons, but here a new low by making all those toys already bought, redundant, at least from the cartoon's perspective. The cartoon's sole purpose was to advertise pointless toys in the most consumer unfriendly way imaginable, it is quite an achievement in its self. Think about how often the Transformers actually transformed into anything, and how often transforming was a benefit. This film however, doesn't even try to attempt to tell an interesting story. In fact subsequent games based on the films and cartoons, did a much better job of telling a story and progressing the universe. Never really understanding the attraction of the original series, and having only a passing interest in the toys, I suppose I can't fully appreciate the nostalgia for many adults. However, that said there was nothing creative or in the least bit laudable about this film, or the cartoon franchise that spawned it. The sooner it realised for the marketing sham it was the better.