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TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE!
On August 8, 1986, TFTM was released into movie theatres. While it bombed financially and critically, it is still regarded as a cult classic by many fans around the world.
I only saw it many years later in 2000 so the reaction in me may not have been as dramatic had I seen it as a tiny tot in 1986.
In contrast to the first 2 seasons of the show, characters were harder -hitting, cursed, and died grisly deaths. A whole slew of new characters were introduced at the behest of Hasbro and many of the old fan favorites were callously pushed offscreen.
The animation by Toei is perhaps the best work they did in the G1 franchise with detailed artwork and fluid animation. While there were mistakes like the TV show, they were kept to a minimum.
The hard rock soundtrack also served to differentiate itself from the mostly orchestral sound of the show with Stan Bush’s “The Touch” , “dare” and Lion’s rendition of the theme being standouts. (“Instruments of Destruction” and “Nothing’s gonna stand in our way” are my runners up)
And the voice cast.
While Transformers in general had a very large and colorful cast of actors, the movie was one of the earliest to use celbrity VA.
Nowadays, this is overdone and many characters dont fit the voices, but TFTM VA fit their caracters to a tee.
One would never expect to see a movie with Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, and Orson Welles in the cast.
The death of Optimus Prime is wonderfully melodramatic and wrings the emotion out of you. This is probably the only scene in any TF movie to do so.
While it may be a 1/2 Star Wars homage, 1/2 toy commercial, it still blows the heck out of all the live action films. (not a high bar)
Happy 30th birthday TFTM!
TILL ALL ARE ONE!
