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Summary: For 1986, this is one impressive piece of animation
Review: Compare the animation in this film to anything modern...it holds up very well. The DVD transfer is very very crisp and rich and is an absolute treat to watch! Now on to the movie's content.I was probably the only one of my generation who didnt see this movie as a kid, so now at 24 i got to see it for the first time. First, I think Im glad I didnt see the movie when I was a kid. Seeing all of my favorite TV heroes and toys being obliterated within the first 15 minutes of this would have seriously upset me! I faintly remember that they advertised this movie as the chance to see all your favorites on the big screen. But instead, all the guys you grew up with are fried in the first 15 minutes, and you are kind of held as a captive audience watching all of the new characters steal the show for the reamining hour or so. Obviously this was a marketing ploy to get kids to buy all the new toys, and to be honest I rememeber everyone I knew not getting so much into the next generation transformers so it didnt work. Optimus Prime is an irreplacable hero! They should have given us the satisfacton of seing our heroes on screen for AT LEAST 45 minutes! Oh well. There is a fair amount of violence in this film, and overall it is a very DARK film, which is not in keeping the spirit of the TV series. The TV show was often comical, and nobody died! There was always a happy ending, often with laughter. This film has a mean streak to it and really bears little resemblence to the series. Except for StarScream, the characters are much meaner and not like their TV show counterparts at all. But, as a fan of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick I am accustomed to dark films. All in all I enjoyed this film despite its differences from the show I grew up with. The plot was pretty good, though a bit thin (it IS, after all, a kid's movie!) and there's action aplenty to keep kids and adults happy! I have to deduct one star for the GODAWFUL theme song "You got the touch" (yyyeeeeacchhhh....) that pops up WAY too often. The rest of the score is OK, it was written by the guy who did Rocky 4, and it really shows. The Unicron theme sounded eerily reminiscent of the music when Rocky fought Drago. Overall very cool, but different from the series. The TV episodes are available from Rhino on VHS, and for those like me who loved the show and all its little quirks, I would recommend getting those first, and then using this movie to fill out the collection. Whatever order you get them though, this really is a must own for anyone from the 80's generation!
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Summary: Nothing is better than G1!
Review: I admit it. I didn't see this in the theater. It was right around this time that the G2 models were coming out and I was getting a tad old. But this movie was a great way to link the two series together (Star Trek: Generations attempted to and didn't do quite as well...). There are few movies that will make me cry. And when Prime died... Well, that just really destroyed it all for me. Plus, my favorite Autobot, Prowl, was taken down in one shot by Megatron. This is a great movie, especially for reliving the 80s. Honestly, I think that the best toys were in the mid-80s (GIJoe, Transformers, Mask, etc...). If you can't have the toys, well, buy this movie and be young again.
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Summary: boring and a waste of money
Review: 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.
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Summary: Stop Complaining
Review: I REALLY hate these reviewers saying this is a bad dvd. For 20 bucks, you get enhanced visuals and sound, a commentary from the composer [Music is halfthe movie, after all!], AND the uncut edition you'd previously have to buy through Canada or bootleg! Rhino could've sold this at 30 bucks-like most dvd's-but they're LOSING money by selling it to the fans at vhs retail. If you think Lucas will give you a better deal, then don't buy this and wait another decade for the Star Wars trilogy! And yes, I consider this the best deal I've ever had on a dvd! It's perfect, exactly like I remembered it, but with the curse words I missed the first time around. It almost makes me feel like I'm watching Macross Plus; that's how good it looks and sounds. Transformers fans-like myself-MUST own it. DVD's like this are reasons I'm glad to own a dvd player. Now let's hope the He-man movie on dvd happens too. (And I mean the animated movie, not the horrible live action-flick with Dolph Lundgren.)
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Summary: lets face it!
Review: Set in 2005, Transformers the Movie illuminates on the continual good vs. evil epics of so many less classy animated features. It gave back my childhood in a sense. This animated cartoon suceeds where its kinfolk like G.I.Joe have failed. While the G.I. Joe movie had its momments, I really couldn't wait for it to end. Orsen Wells outdid himself with Transformers. I never wanted the 86 minutes to be over. This flick is top notch... no questions asked. I got it the day it came out a few weeks ago, and like all the classic films, i.e. Top Gun and Braveheart to name a few, this one gets onto the 'I remember watching that movie once a week for six months list.' I remember seeing this movie in the movie theatres, yes it was released, and the only thing I remember was Optimus Prime dying. I remember it moving me when I was young, and it still moves me today. And while this moment in the beginning of the film is haunting and melancholic it gets you very amped up for the rest of the film. The comedic preformance of the simple dinobots does what Jar-Jar failed to do. It added humor to a hard edged story line. I'd offer a money back guarantee on this movie if I could. I stand by it. For the Anime people, if you like any of the the gundam wings, or robo... movies this is for you. Also, if anyone from Amazon reads this, Shockwave was a decepticon, not an autobot!
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Summary: The Transformers - The Movie DVD
Review: I bought this DVD Because I really liked the original series and actually have been waiting for the movie to come out on DVD. When I got it home to watch it I was somewhat disappointed as to the quality of the video. I am not a video/audio expert but I do know a good picture when I see one. The sound was good. I would have thought that the Features on the DVD would have been better. While the interview with the music composer was there interesting in some spots I found the whole thing B-O-R-I-N-G ! The director would have been better. If you but this DVD then do it for the movie sake. Not for any thing else and be willing to be satisfied with the movie alone or buy the video tape if you can find it.
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Summary: Could be better
Review: Overall, I'd say this is one of the better DVD's I own, in terms of quality. Not content. Where is all the extra stuff that we've come to expect in a DVD movie? This version needed more than just an interview with the composer and some unused story boards. Where's the interviews with the cast? Or the director? I think Rhino could have spent a little more time on this version. I had to give it 3 stars. It's good, but a little lacking.
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Summary: "Coronation Starscream? This is bad comedy..."
Review: Hey y'all, Just got my Transformers DVD the other day and I have to say I was thoroughly impressed with the quality of the DVD transfer. I've had the video, which I thought was decent. But clarity, color, and crispness of this DVD version is remarkable. I am yet another one of the millions of bona fide Transformers fans out there who can tell you that this movie is one of the best animated movies ever made. A solid story, strong voice cast, excellent animation by the Japanese artists, and engaging and appropriate soundtrack by Vince Di Cola. I have to say that I don't know any other movie in which the music meshs so well with the actual movie. Very well done. I know this movie backwards and forwards, and I could even quote you line by line. I love it. This was THE kid's show of the 80's. This movie just brings back so many childhood memories. Now for the quips: the 'extras' as they call it leaves much to be desired. I mean it was cool with the interview and whatnot and storyboards. It would have been cool if they maybe had a behind the scenes featurette with the voice actors and other cool tidbits on how the process was done. But all in all this was a good package for the price. A truly definite buy!!!! Get yours now!
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Summary: Really funny, awsome, fun, and just plain goofy.
Review: First of all I like to point out that this movie is the longest toy commericial to date. The transformers were a fad in the 80's that all the boys wanted, including me. They would morph into random items and well, later on some of the robots morphed into some really weird stuff. Anyway, this movie starts off with a planet full of robots being destroyed by a big, scary, evil planet named Unicron, voiced by the evil Orson Welles! How appropriate! So pretty soon you see a battle taking place between the Autobots and the Decepticons. You're introduced to an endless slew of robots with very "clever" at least the people who made them thought so, names. While the robots are fighting you witness some of the WORST jokes ever to be burned on a DVD. Like this one for example: (Fortress is shaking) Jazz (voiced by Scatman!): Hey, what's shaking? Besides this fortress. Yeah, I know just awful, but you know, Pokemon's jokes aren't so great either. Soon, you're introduced to optimus prime a huge robot who can morph into a truck who is feuding with Megatron, a deceptacon who can change to a gun who can't even fire himself(how useful is that?) Megatron kills Prime, getting trashed himself in the process. Unicron makes a deal with Megatron to get the matrix and he would give Megatron a new identity (plus a new villian to make all the kids buy). The rest of the movie is pure history. There is one scene I absolutely have to point out. While the Auto bots are on some strange planet fighting other robots one of the bots they are fighting some some cheesy one liner, and his eye starts to sparkle! This is the most cheesy thing I have ever witnessed and I was on the floor laughing. After that they say something in a weird language and start break dancing to Weird Al music! CLASSIC! A must buy for anyone who was a kid during the 80s.
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Summary: Like Old Times!
Review: I grew up watching transformers on t.v. I am very happy that Transformers:The Movie finally came out on DVD. I hope that some day the rest of the original series will too be made to DVD. Then my own kids can see what I liked growing up and hopefully enjoy it as much as I did.
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