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
michaelbiland
This film is overall an 8 - great.The soundtrack is great, the voice acting is good, the plot is mostly engaging and the animation is very well done. The only issues I can think of is that the action isn't very entertaining, but this couldn't be helped. It was the best they could do for the 80s. And there is one annoying character, but mercifully he's not in the film often. Overall, this is a great flick worth a viewing because it's genuinely well done.
For a first attempt at a full length Transformers film, it's not bad at all.
dprkforum
I was, and still am, a Transformers fan. With that out of the way, the bias is going to show.I was so excited and stoked for this movie when the teasers started to appear in the newspapers and TV. A full-length motion picture of my favorite toys. I was very attached to the characters from the comic books and TV show. Little did I know how the movie was going to turn for said characters. It was unexpected and extremely emotional for me. I heard others in the theater openly crying in certain parts.Yes, this was probably made to promote the new line of toys that were being released, and needed new story lines for them. The movie... well, it was epic. The battle between good and evil. The struggles of loss. Meeting new friends. Facing new enemies. It opened new vistas, and even some glimmer of hope. The story was well-written, and will cure the itch for any G1 fan.The animation is a tad dated, but this was made over 30 years ago, so considering the age, it is not that bad. I watched it again after twenty odd years later, and it still hit the feels.My childhood revisited. Although not the best of times, but things like this made them a little happier.
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
