It’s the best time of the week! Time to kick back, relax and get ready to enjoy some classic animation…it’s time for Saturday Morning Cartoons!
This week, we’re checking out one of the greatest animated pieces to ever cause trauma for kids around the globe (lol). Get ready to transform and roll out, as we’re checking out 1986’s Transformers the Movie!
The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated science fiction action film based on the Transformers television series. It is the first installment in the Transformers (Animated film series) and was released in North America on August 8, 1986, and in the United Kingdom on December 12, 1986. It was co-produced and directed by Nelson Shin, who also produced the television series. The screenplay was written by Ron Friedman, who created Bionic Six a year later.
The film features the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, Lionel Stander, John Moschitta Jr., Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, and Orson Welles, who died 10 months before the film’s release, in his final film role. The soundtrack comprises electronic music composed by Vince DiCola and songs from rock and heavy metal acts including Stan Bush and “Weird Al” Yankovic.
The story is set in 2005, 20 years after the TV series’ second season. After a Decepticon assault devastates Autobot City, Optimus Prime wins a deadly one-on-one duel with Megatron, but ultimately sustains fatal injuries in the encounter. With Megatron gravely injured, the Decepticons are forced to retreat, saving the Autobots. The Autobots are hunted across the galaxy by Unicron, a planet-sized Transformer intending to consume Cybertron and who transfigures Megatron to become the enslaved Galvatron.
Where were you when you saw Optimus die? Yikes, eh?
I was in a movie theater in the Bronx, NY with my best friend, Patrick and my Dad. When Optimus died, a collective “OH NO” was heard throughout the movie theater, followed by crying. Ah, good times had by all, amirite?
Interestingly enough, it was OP’s death that caused Duke to survive the G.I.Joe movie, changing his fatal snakebite to just a coma inducing flesh wound.
On that fun-filled note, I hope you enjoyed this week’s installment! Have a great Saturday ahead, my friends!
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For all of its flaws, Transformers: The Movie definitely served to expand on the overall mythos of the TF franchise. Elements like Unicron and the Matrix of Leadership have been officially adapted into canon.
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I still appreciate the fact that an entire movie theater worth of kids lost their minds when we saw all the carnage aboard that shuttle.
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