Review of The Transformers: The Movie (1986) by Smked T — 07 Jun 2010

After the success of the Transformers TV series and toy chain which started in 1984, a movie was inevitable, and it came. It was hyped as the best animated film of all time by it's own makers, it had a good heavy metal soundtrack and a good vocal cast, including Leonard Nimoy and Eric Idle.

What could possibly go wrong?? Well... time hasn't been kind to the first film version, at all. The plot is almost impossible to work out, but it has a robot planet called Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles, his last film role, what does that tell us??) that goes around eating up planets.

And the Autobots are fighting the Decepticons, as they've taken control of the Transformers planet. Optimus Prime is killed so Ultra Magnus takes over, and they go off to destroy the planet which has become a giant robot and is working with the Decepticons.

.. OH I CAN'T GO ON!! I loved this when I was a kid, but it's just unwatchable now!! There's moments which must only be watched through smoked glass as they'll give you an epileptic fit, and it just reeks of the 1980's.

The TV came in bite size chunks, a whole hour and 20 minutes of this is just too much, and make my head hurt badly. Watching this film makes me PINE for Michael Bay's version, and Shia LaBeouf/Megan Fox.

I never thought I'd say that...