With "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" coming to theaters this summer, I thought for my first official movie review I would go back to the beginning with the one that started it all...
"It is the year 2005. The treacherous Decepticons have conquered the Autobots home planet of Cybertron."
This is the one movie I grew up with in the 80's that I could watch over and over again and never get tired of it. To this day I could still probably quote this movie from beginning to end without having to watch it.
It had an all star cast behind the already seasoned voice actors from the original cartoon including:
Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime
Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) as Galvatron
Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries) as Ultra Magnus
John Moschitta, Jr. (The Micro Machines Guy) as Blurr
Eric Idle (Monty Python) as Wreck-Gar
and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) as Unicron
This film was considered controversial back in the day due to the level of violence and a couple uses of bad language for an animated "kids" film. It has the look and feel of traditional Japanese anime coupled with an American hard rock soundtrack and synthesized score that totally kicks ass.
Through all the violence and action within the film, the most shocking part of the movie for most children including me was THE DEATH OF OPTIMUS PRIME!!! This was due to the fact that Prime's action figure in Hasbro's toy line was not selling as well anymore.
I can imagine the production meeting for the film went something like this:
"The toy isn't selling anymore...let's kill him!"
Prime was originally supposed to stay dead throughout the remainder of the cartoon series never to return, but outrage from children, parents and fans alike reached the producers of the show and they brought him back to life during the 3rd Season.
All I got to say is being as hardcore a TransFan as I am...I wonder who out there in the fanbase cried when Optimus died? If you didn't cry...you're not human.
This movie is worth the time for any Transformer or Anime fan out there. I bet most of you already have it in your collection.
On a side note:
Michael Bay if you happen to read this, put Stan Bush's "The Touch" in Transformers 3. If you really want to make the fans happy, it should be included in the film somewhere. I'll even take it as an end credits song. It was the rock anthem of the G1 Transformers generation...it wouldn't be right without it.
Until next time...you just got Jacked!
"It is the year 2005. The treacherous Decepticons have conquered the Autobots home planet of Cybertron."
This is the one movie I grew up with in the 80's that I could watch over and over again and never get tired of it. To this day I could still probably quote this movie from beginning to end without having to watch it.
It had an all star cast behind the already seasoned voice actors from the original cartoon including:
Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club) as Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime
Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek) as Galvatron
Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries) as Ultra Magnus
John Moschitta, Jr. (The Micro Machines Guy) as Blurr
Eric Idle (Monty Python) as Wreck-Gar
and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) as Unicron
This film was considered controversial back in the day due to the level of violence and a couple uses of bad language for an animated "kids" film. It has the look and feel of traditional Japanese anime coupled with an American hard rock soundtrack and synthesized score that totally kicks ass.
Through all the violence and action within the film, the most shocking part of the movie for most children including me was THE DEATH OF OPTIMUS PRIME!!! This was due to the fact that Prime's action figure in Hasbro's toy line was not selling as well anymore.
I can imagine the production meeting for the film went something like this:
"The toy isn't selling anymore...let's kill him!"
Prime was originally supposed to stay dead throughout the remainder of the cartoon series never to return, but outrage from children, parents and fans alike reached the producers of the show and they brought him back to life during the 3rd Season.
All I got to say is being as hardcore a TransFan as I am...I wonder who out there in the fanbase cried when Optimus died? If you didn't cry...you're not human.
This movie is worth the time for any Transformer or Anime fan out there. I bet most of you already have it in your collection.
On a side note:
Michael Bay if you happen to read this, put Stan Bush's "The Touch" in Transformers 3. If you really want to make the fans happy, it should be included in the film somewhere. I'll even take it as an end credits song. It was the rock anthem of the G1 Transformers generation...it wouldn't be right without it.
Until next time...you just got Jacked!
-J
