Transformers: The Movie (1986) is pretty much my all time favourite film. Seriously. The death toll is rivaled only by Star Wars (if you count the Death Star's body count on Alderaan). So this movie is still great, excellent voice acting, awesome and somewhat gruesome plot (considering that this is still a cartoon at the end of the day), and some great talent behind it all.
My main gripes come from this remastered version. They have done away with the 'Flash Gordon' style scrolling text after the main titles (for those of you not 'in the know' think of the scrolling text in Star Wars... 'It is a hard time for the rebels, princess Leia has decided to bring the data to the rebel HQ rather than simply transmit it and oddly enough she has been tracked'. You know it from Star Wars, but the old Flash Gordon TV series did it about 20 years before Star Wars was a spark of monetary potential in George Lucas' messed up, CQI happy mind). Anyway, so they did away with the scrolling titles and instead put in a 'Superman-opening-sequence' style credit sequence, which wouldn't be so annoying except they do not even mention the voice actors of Optimus Prime or Megatron. Should I repeat that? Megatron it is possibly understandable, but considering that they have remastered this in order to raise hype for the forthcoming live action Transformers movie you would think that they could at least have mentioned Peter Cullens since he will be reprising his role as Optimus Prime in Michael Bay's version.
Those are my gripes, this film still rules, but the remastered version rules less so than the original. I should note that I suspect that they have completely redone the animation for the film given how 'complete' the set pieces all look, it isn't just new crayons over old colours here.
Rating: A (it's ORSON WELLES for God's sake!)
(The 86 one gets S by the way)
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