Transformers: The Movie Movie Review

You're not fooling anyone, Hot Rod. The next screw that falls out will be you For our first episode in the Transformers Retrospective Series, we roll back to 1986 and the animated big-screen debut of The Transformers: The Movie. Optimus Prime vs. Megatron, the rise of Hot Rod, a synth-heavy soundtrack, and a voice cast that includes Eric Idle (Monty Python and the Holy Grail), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek), Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club), and the legendary Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) in his final role. It had all the makings of a franchise-defining event, but it left children traumatized and flopped at the box office. Dare to be stupid with Arnie, Stuart, and Transformers mega-fan Jerry as they revisit the animated epic that reshaped Cybertron and ask whether this so-called bomb was actually more than meets the eye.