The Transformers – The Movie

5 Comments

1. Kiahuna Griller says:

   November 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm

   I ordered this film based on the many positive recommendations found here. We frequently have young visitors at our house so we try to keep a small collection of children’s videos on hand.

   Anyway, we found this film extremely boring. My friend, his two children and I were bored stiff after only 15 minutes so we watched something different. We enjoyed the “different” movie much more than Transformers despite the fact that we’ve all seen it many times before.

   As if being bored by the plot weren’t enough, the sound quality is absolutely terrible. It’s already tough to listen to the (mono?) soundtrack especially when compared to more modern children’s movies but there was a lot of static and distortion in the recording that I don’t get with other DVDs. It seems that the soundtrack was poorly edited. The sound effects are simply bad and the relative volume levels don’t seem right. Those short length cartoons from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s or older have much better sound quality coming over standard cable on a regular TV than this movie does on DVD when played on a high end system.

   The picture quality is mediocre at best and the animation is bad. IMHO, this movie has no redeeming qualities.

   I have to admit that I didn’t pay close enough attention to the reviews to realize that this was the Transformers from the 80’s (okay so it was titled that too – what can I say). Had I realized what this movie was to begin with, I wouldn’t have purchased it in the first place.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. Unstereotypical says:

   November 19, 2009 at 10:00 pm

   I wouldn’t give this movie such a low rating if it wasn’t so gory and violent and disturbing.

   The animation in this movie is breathtaking, but the storyline is too literally dead serious for small little kids. A small little kid could have all sorts of mental scarring from this movie, to see almost all of their childhood hereos die off and literally get blown away in about the first 20 minutes of the movie.

   I kid you not, this is no movie for small kids. This is gory, violent, brutal, and disturbing animation here.

   GI*JOE the movie, which came out at the sametime this did, was not like this at all. GI*JOE the movie = Weird as everything, yes. Disturbing and gory, no. If you are going to buy a good cartoon movie for small kids, go with GI*JOE the movie instead. At least that movie will not give kids possible mental damage or emotional scars. In GI*JOE the movie, other than Cobra Commander and Falcon, no one dies, but that movie is beyond weird. Very confusing storyline there. I don’t know which one is more weird: Tron, 2001 Space Oddessy, or GI*JOE the movie?

   In “The Death of the Transformers” that it should have been called: 3/4ths of all Autobots die off in this movie in many very violent ways.

   Don’t except hardly any Autobots living through this movie, not even Optimus Prime himself.

   The Decepticons are the heroes in this movie. Hardly any Decepticons die in this movie at all.

   Yeah, the soundtrack has some really good Power Metal on it, and that right there is worth the price of the DVD just to listen to the music if not for anything else.

   This movie should have been named “The Death of the Transformers” instead.

   So the whole point is: If you want to watch almost all your childhood heroes die off in very disturbing and gory ways, then buy this movie. (But at least the soundtrack was really good).

   If you don’t, stay far away from this movie.

   Rating: 3 / 5
3. Anonymous says:

   November 19, 2009 at 11:09 pm

   I was really looking forward in seeing this movie. I have just started to get into the “ANIME” thing and have seen some good movies but this movie really stinks. Maybe I was expecting too much from it, but I dont think so. I have seen some [bad] movies in my time and this one ranks within the top 10. Dont waste your time on this, go outside and watch the grass grow instead…it will be more entertaining that watching this piece of trash.
   Rating: 1 / 5
4. Jason Patrick Quattrone says:

   November 20, 2009 at 12:44 am

   Okay, I went out and actually bought this movie because I haven’t seen it since childhood. About five minutes into it a bunch of the old-school characters get wiped out. Then another five minutes sees more of them getting sent to silocon heaven. The story was just flat out ridiculous, here you have this planet that is annihilating the universe but no one has ever seen or heard of it?

   Enough about the plot, I know it’s a kids movie. Now to the really annoying part, the music. Every battle sequence was filled with awful 80’s hair-rock music, lyrics and all. Most movies, like donnie darko, use short clips but this flick played entire songs. I heard “The Touch” in both the beginning and the end of the movie. I can’t stress how much I hate that tune. The only time I liked it is when Marky Mark butchered it in “Boogie Nights.”

   The overflow of music makes this “so-called classic” impossible to enjoy. Thankfully the movie is just under 90 minutes, and if you try hard enough, it’s possible to make it to the end. But be warned, for those of you that enjoyed it as a youth, times change and people grow up! This Movie Sucks Ass!!
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. non soli cedit says:

   November 20, 2009 at 3:07 am

   This DVD disc was not recognized on my Apple PowerBook G3 Firewire. The DVD drive tried to spin the disc up but gave up after a few seconds. There’s no DVD icon on the desktop. I tried on both OS 9 and OS X, and “df -k” on OS X did not show a mounted volume in the DVD drive.
   Since the TF Season 1 Collector’s Edition DVD discs play fine on the same laptop, it’s got to be the TFTM DVD disc that’s mastered non-Macintosh compatible. Major disappointment, since I own the Canadian VHS version of TFTM (containg that four-letter word) and was really looking forward to owning the uncensored edition on DVD.
   Rating: 1 / 5