The Transformers: The Movie
Beyond Evil. The Junkions repair Ultra Magnus and provide a vessel to help the Autobots fight against Unicron. Galvatron attempts to subjugate Unicron using the Matrix but is unable to unleash its power.Optimus calls on Ultra Magnus to assume command of the Autobots and bestows him with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus extracts from his chest. Outside of these characters, a substantial number of Autobots from the first two seasons of the show do not appear after the film, leaving their fates uncertain. Aside from Starscream and several Sweeps, there are virtually no Decepticon deaths in the movie, and even those who die are not killed by Autobots.
Also, for legal reasons, the old toy commercials in the discs have the children s faces blurred out. The version selling at Costco came with an exclusive bonus disc featuring the original 1984 pilot. Galvatron, no longer willing to serve Unicron, steals the Matrix, stating that he will use it to make Unicron his slave.
Optimus turns the tide of battle and defeats Megatron. When the Autobots arrive Hot Rod crashes their ship through one of Unicron s eyes and they find themselves separated within his body.
It was released in North America on August 8, 1986. The film was directed by Nelson Shin, who produced the original Transformers television series, and features the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, John Moschitta, Jr., Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. The remaining Decepticons argue over who should lead them. Adrift in space, the Decepticon castoffs encounter Unicron, who offers to give Megatron and the others new bodies on the condition that they destroy the Autobot Matrix, which, Unicron says, is the only thing that can stand in his way.
In 2001, 3H also released Lighting Their Darkest Hour, featuring the instrumental score; The Protoform Sessions, featuring early demos, outtakes, and alternate themes linked with narration by Dicola; and Artistic Transformations, featuring ten instrumental themes from the movie interpreted for solo piano. In the first live action Transformers film, Optimus Prime says to Megatron, ..one shall stand, one shall fall, in a homage to their confrontation in the animated film. A Unicron toy was designed, but was never produced due to cost concerns. A transmission is intercepted by the Decepticons, who ambush the shuttle and kill its crew.
only Scramble City is included. The bonus material includes three additional score cues and an alternate version of the Transformers Theme. In 1997, 3H Enterprises released an album titled Til All Are One that features the film s score on two CDs.
Decepticons attempt to counter Unicron s attack, to no avail. Some complaints The DVD also included the first subtitled episode of the Japanese-exclusive series, Transformers: The Headmasters, the entirety of which was released in a DVD boxset for the first time in the UK, and the west, on September 26, 2005. Sony BMG released The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD in North America (Region 1) on November 7, 2006.
Nevertheless, the film has developed a cult following towards audiences inside and outside the Transformers fandom. The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film based on the animated series of the same name.
The film currently has a 50% rotten rating on Rottentomatoes. The film has been released on Blu-ray Disc outside the United States, however those versions are region-free and will play in an American Blu-Ray machine. The Transformers: The Movie was met with mixed reviews.
Grimlock persuades the Sharkticons to rebel against the Quintessons while the Autobots escape. The Transformers: The Movie was also a huge flop in the box office, taking in only $5 million during its opening weekend.
My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen. The credits list several characters that either do not appear or do not speak in the finished film. The writers of the G.I.
The trade paperback features three pages of scenes not featured in the movie, including the activities of Omega Supreme and the other Combiner Teams and why they were not present at the battle for Autobot City. In 1987, the official soundtrack was released in the USA by Scotti Brothers Records (now Volcano Entertainment). The soundtrack was re-released on May 29, 2007. It was also the final role for both Orson Welles and Scatman Crothers. The story takes place in 2005, 20 years after the events of the TV series second season and serves to bridge into the third season.
Though many inhabitants attempt to flee the planet in spaceships, only one escapes. The evil Decepticons have gained control of the Transformers homeworld, Cybertron at some point in the twenty years since the beginning of the struggle between the robotic warriors on Earth. Many fans especially praised the film s soundtrack, with songs performed by Stan Bush and Weird Al Yankovic, as well as the synth-based score of Vince DiCola.
The two-disc set contains the following features: Due to licensing issues, the Scramble City animated feature is missing its original Japanese-language audio, which is replaced by a commentary track by webmasters of some of the leading Transformers fan websites. Beyond Your Wildest Imagination. Unicron, a roaming artificial planet, devours robot planet Lithone along with its population.
The Wal-Mart edition included an iron-on Autobot symbol decal. Metrodome Distribution released an Ultimate Edition of The Transformers: The Movie DVD in June 2007 in the UK (Region 2). Wreck-Gar and his Junkions fight back against Unicron, but Unicron crushes their ship.
Among the Autobots shown dead on screen are Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Ratchet, Brawn, Windcharger, and Wheeljack. Shockwave s death was scripted but cut from the finished film; it was reinstated for IDW Publishing s adaptation of the feature, printed in 2006.
Early in the battle, Ultra Magnus orders Blaster to radio for assistance from Optimus Prime. Galvatron leads the Decepticons in another assault on Autobot City.
Story consultant Flint Dille elaborated: The movie was produced by Sunbow/Marvel simultaneous to G.I. The feature was vertically cropped to widescreen dimensions for theatrical showings and released in fullscreen on home video and DVD.
Hot Rod and Kup are then subjected to a mock trial by Quintesson executioners, who sentence them to execution. A siege ensues, lasting the rest of the day and the following night.
Unicron s heavily damaged head orbits Cybertron as a new satellite. Autobot casualties outnumbered those of the Decepticons. Unicron, saying that Galvatron underestimates him, transforms into a planet-sized robot and attacks Cybertron.
Later in 2007 Metrodome released the movie, in a bare bones form on Blu-Ray Disc; the Blu-ray version is only available in the UK, but is free of region coding and thus can be played on Blu-ray players from anywhere. The film was also released on Universal Media Disc for the PlayStation Portable by Pink Entertainment and Metrodome in the UK. This version also restores the DEG opening logo that was part of the original screened version but was cut from the Rhino DVD.
The film was originally released in 1987 on VHS The film was first released on DVD in 2000 This version restored Spike s Oh, shit! line. Bush s song The Touch, which prominently featured in the film, was originally written for the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra.
Shortly before he died, he told his biographer, Barbara Leaming, You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. He elaborated, I play a planet. Starscream takes command of the Decepticons and retreats with their fallen leader and other war-wounded loaded aboard Astrotrain. Inside Autobot City, Perceptor informs the other Autobots that Optimus Prime s wounds are fatal.
His underlings are reformatted into Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps. They pick up the shuttle s signature, and race up to Lookout Mountain to see it land.
The film s tagline was: Beyond Good. A Unicron toy would not be released to the general public until 2003, as part of the Transformers: Armada toyline. .
Galvatron opens fire on Unicron, but Unicron swallows him. The 20th anniversary release of the movie by Sony, however features the cropped widescreen presentation.
However, a rather different-colored Shockwave makes a couple of appearances in the season premiere sequel Five Faces of Darkness. The Autobots, triumphant and now outnumbering the Decepticons, reclaim Cybertron.
Before dying, Optimus asserts that the Matrix one day will light the Autobots darkest hour. Astrotrain s shortage of fuel prompts the Decepticons to eject several of their injured — including the protesting Megatron. The Autobots and Decepticons work togather to try and fight Unicron.
He was in declining health during production. The Decepticons intend to use the ship to infiltrate Autobot City on Earth. On Earth, Daniel Witwicky and Hot Rod fish in a lake near Autobot City, discussing Daniel s loneliness, as his father Spike is on one of the moon bases.
They engage in a battle that leaves Optimus critically wounded due to Hot Rod s interference. Joe film asked for permission from Hasbro to kill a character, Duke.
The outnumbered Autobots, including Ultra Magnus, Blurr, Springer, Perceptor, and Arcee, transform Autobot City into a battle fortress. The film was later released on DVD by Rhino Entertainment in North America and Maverick in the UK, both in 2001.
Differences to the animated feature include the original designs for the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and Ultra Magnus original death at the hand of Scourge and the Sweeps. Although the cartoon and comic book stories by Marvel were normally kept unrelated, the movie linked the two in the UK comic series, where it is portrayed as the eventual future of the comic s timeline. Several of the injured Decepticons are reformatted by Unicron, and while it is clear that Galvatron has Megatron s memories, it is less so with Cyclonus and Scourge, as Thundercracker, Skywarp and Starscream are depicted as having grave markers in a subterranean Decepticon crypt on Cybertron in the episode Starscream s Ghost .
Battling the Sharkticons, they are rescued by the arrival of the Dinobots. The next morning Optimus and the Dinobots repel the Decepticons. Optimus confronts his arch-enemy, Megatron.
A supply shuttle is readied for launch to Autobot City on Earth. Galvatron tries to assist Hot Rod, knowing that Unicron is a greater threat, only for Unicron to take control of Galvatron.
Unicron provides them with a craft in which they travel to Cybertron, where Galvatron obliterates Starscream and takes command of the Decepticons. On Earth, the Autobots are alerted as Unicron consumes Cybertron s moons, along with Autobots Jazz, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Daniel s father Spike. Critics panned the film for its animation style which was then unfamiliar to American audiences.
Megatron agrees, and Unicron converts Megatron into a new form: the Decepticon warrior Galvatron . The Dinobots also attack Unicron, with little success. Inside Unicron, Hot Rod confronts Galvatron while Daniel and the other Autobots rescue Spike and the survivors of Unicron s assault on Cybertron s moons.
This version includes all ten tracks from the original soundtrack, plus new bonus material provided by Vince DiCola, who composed and produced the film s score. The movie was also criticized for flat characters, as well as the grief it caused younger viewers with its massive character deaths and dark tone.
Ultra Magnus tries but fails to awaken the Matrix s powers, and is dismembered by the Sweeps. The direction the comic took afterwards pertaining to the origin of Unicron once again diverged from events depicted in the cartoon: a disruption to the fabric of spacetime caused by actions of Galvatron was explained to have altered the timeline, with the movie future becoming an alternate potential chronology for the comics, while a story in the U.S.
The heroic Autobots are using two of Cybertron s moons as staging areas, preparing for a strike against the Decepticons. The Autobots board a pair of shuttles and flee toward Cybertron.
It features both the 16x9 widescreen version seen in cinemas and the full-frame version of the film. It was written by Bob Budiansky and drawn by Don Figueroa.
Hasbro not only approved the request but insisted that the writers of Transformers: The Movie adopt the same fate for Optimus Prime. In addition to the above-listed characters, many additional Transformers appear throughout the film in non-speaking roles. The Transformers: The Movie was the final film to which Orson Welles contributed, although not the final film released. Bell is also credited as Prowl, who does not speak.
Rodimus leads the other Autobots out of Unicron s body before it explodes. I menace somebody called Something-or-other.
One of the intentions of the movie was to rid the Transformers cartoon universe of the majority of characters from Seasons 1 and 2. The film features several grand battles in which a handful of major characters meet their end.
The death of Optimus Prime came as a major shock to both critics and audiences, which caused his voice artist, Peter Cullen, to realize Optimus overwhelming popularity. title saw Unicron attacking Cybertron and being destroyed in the present day. Corresponding with the animated movie s 20th anniversary DVD release, IDW Publishing, the current Transformers publisher, released a four-issue adaptation of the animated movie entitled Transformers: The Animated Movie.
Returning to the original negative of the film, Metrodome reconstructed the picture image, adjusting and shrinking it to reveal additional footage hidden by overscan, as well as remastering the video quality. The UK version of the film features scrolling text and narration at the beginning of the film replacing the cast credits, and an additional closing narration assuring viewers that Optimus Prime will return. The Japanese version of the movie also includes these additions, and displays each character s name briefly at the bottom of the screen when they first appear.
Then I m destroyed. Messick is credited for Gears, who doesn t speak, instead of Scavenger, who does.
Hot Rod, Kup and the Dinobots are shot down over the planet Quintessa, while Ultra Magnus and company evade their pursuers and set down on the planet Junk for repairs. Captured by Quintessa guardsmen, Hot Rod and Kup witness the sentencing and execution of Arbulus, a native of Lithone. The remaining Autobots are harassed by hostile Junkion natives, led by Wreck-Gar, until Hot Rod s party arrives and befriends them.
Rodimus throws Galvatron deep into space freeing the decepticon from control.Rodimus then unleashes the Matrix s true power from insde of Unicron, finally oblitirating Unicron. The UK cinema version (4:3 aspect ratio) of the film was used and the disc contains no extra features. A three-issue miniseries adaptation of the feature film written by Ralph Macchio and drawn by Don Perlin was published by Marvel Comics to market the film, with no continuity ties to the regular comic series.
Metrodome later licensed the movie to Prism Leisure to release a budget version in June 2003. On September 5, 2005, Metrodome Distribution released a remastered DVD entitled Transformers: The Movie Reconstructed. Joe: The Movie.
They spot the Decepticons and launch a preemptive strike. With help from the Dinobots new ally, Wheelie, the group locates a ship and departs to join the other Autobots. Galvatron finds and hunts down the Autobots on Junk.
While imprisoned they meet Kranix, now Lithone s last survivor, who then tells them about Unicron, before he s taken away by the Quintessa guardsmen to also be fed to the Sharkticons. The credits include Bud Davis as Dirge, who had lines cut from the film s original script, and Walker Edmiston as Inferno, who does not appear in either the film or script. Peter Cullen is credited above Scatman Crothers, even though the cast members are usually listed in alphabetical order. Although the trailer hails the film as spectacular widescreen action , the movie was animated in 4:3 fullscreen format.
Set to a hard-driving metal music soundtrack, the movie has a decidedly darker tone than the television series, with detailed visuals in Toei Animation s typical animated feature film styling, and Decepticon villains that are more menacing, killing without hesitation. After a brief battle, the Decepticons begin attacking Autobot City.
Some critics said that the action scenes in the film were enough to keep children s interest into the feature, but also said the storyline would bore viewers who were over 10 years of age. Hot Rod recovers the Matrix and unleashes its power, transforming him into Rodimus Prime.
