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

Cameronius Explodius McMonius I need to get the fact out of the way that I grew up with Transformers and this film too so revisiting this was quite an exciting ride. This review is coming from a fan of the franchise by the way and why I believe this movie is significant to all of the Transformers fans (including myself). This movie was rather controversial to the fans of the show when it released. The sole reason for this movie being made was to kill off much of the main cast and progress in development with some of the original characters so that the show would be prepared for the third season. This results in lots of the main characters being wiped out within the first 20 minutes; including Optimus Prime himself. However, what the company didn't realise was that people had become attached to these characetrs and therefore the film received negative reviews for how it disposed of many characters they had been previously building up in the show. I believe that this is a movie that gets better with age. As I said before, people were critical of the film at the time of release due to what it did with the main characters, Optimus Prime especially. His death was so controversial that in the UK DVD release it included a narration at the end stating that 'Optimus Prime will return'. Thankfully on the new blu ray release it is the original without anything added as people now know that these characters lived on to this day and weren't just forgotten about; Optimus Prime plays as big a role as he did back then, possibly even bigger at the moment. Now into the film itself. I've got to say that I thought the voice performances were great, it may be because these are the ones I've came to know but every single one was unique, the ones that stood out to me were Peter Cullen as Optimus (I loved him as usual, despite his role being very small), Leonard Nimoy (Spock himself) as Galvatron (the reincarnation of Megatron) and also none other than Orson Welles in his final film role as the villain Unicron. I really liked the animation which was always bright and appealing and very impressive for the time, with them needing to animate battles, transformations and whatnot. The character designs were also very creative and much more appealing of those nowadays. The thing I believe makes this film unique is that it's just an animation from the 80s. It really has an 80s feel; not very serious (even though it does have dark moments), LOTS of 80s music, cheesy sound effects and just plain fun. It's exactly what you'd expect from an 80s animation film, I guess the critics at the time were probably expecting more. I respect this film for what it is as it was just trying to be a fun animation film and not the greatest thing in the world. This film was also different to the series and had a different, darker feel to it. Obviously it shows that many characters are in fact vulnerable and shows some of the Autobots as a group of survivors basically rather than an army which shows them in a state of more peril and that the army has met a foe more powerful than them. It also shows a threat to both the Autobots and Decepticons which makes for a different type of villain. Overall, I'd say this is a love it or hate it film; if you're a Transformers fan, you'll likely love this. However, if you share many of the same opinions as the critics then you'll probably hate it and I can easily see why someone would hate this film to be honest. However, I can at least say that you should watch this instead of The Last Knight or any of the Michael Bay Transformers films any day. 7.5/10 Fun fact: this movie takes place in 2005. Wish we'd seen some REAL Transformers by then. No, the Michael Bay ones don't exist.

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.

KingBrian1 This movie was made for the purpose of selling toys. Epic 80's hit the Autobots aided by the Dinobots duel it out with the Decepticons in their final battle. For all familiar with the series this is a dark film with major death of leading characters from beginning to end. Cyberton is the enemy of the Transformers, a planet eater seeking to destroy the Matrix of the Autobots by enlisting Megatron.This is another fine example of 80's film. Without knowing the series this film would be confusing and hard to understand. Could not remember any of the personalities from the series as it is so long ago. Transformers is but a memory. This film still stands as one of my all-time favourites. I my opinion this film did justice to the series.