The Transformers: The Movie
1986 animated feature continuing the Transformers television series. As the Decepticons launch a massive assault against the Autobots, the arrival of Unicron, a planet-sized world-devouring machine, overturns the balance of the war and draws a new generation of Transformers into the conflict.
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Our review
The Transformers: The Movie: 85 Minutes of Metal, Rock and Grief
The Transformers: The Movie remains a fascinating contradiction: a film designed to refresh a toy line that handles that refresh with enough brutality to scar a generation. Its first third is terrific, its middle far more scattered, and its finale recovers the cosmic scale promised by Unicron just in time. Nelson Shin never turns the enormous cast into a perfectly coherent narrative, but he gives the film movement, color and a sense of scale that have aged remarkably well. You have to accept the guitars, lasers and commercial decisions visible from orbit. In return, the movie still delivers something many later Transformers blockbusters spent much longer searching for: clear visual form, readable silhouettes and robots whose deaths can actually matter.