#The most unknown transformer for free#
Joe: The Movie', which was planned as a theatrical feature but got redirected straight to video instead.) Parents balked at the idea of paying movie theater prices to let their kids see a cartoon they already watched on TV every afternoon for free – and Mom and Dad damn sure weren't going to sit through it with them. (Its failure even derailed the following year's ' G.I.
It opened to scathing reviews and was in fact a box office bomb that nearly brought down the entire 'Transformers' franchise. Love need not be explained or justified.ĭuring its original release, 'Transformers: The Movie' was hardly viewed as a classic for the ages. It does so again when the song is reprised later. Nonetheless, as Stan Bush's cheesy power anthem "The Touch" blares for the first time near the beginning of the picture, my heart swells. Viewed with a clear head, the film is kind of a mess on every artistic, narrative and dramatic level.
I can offer no compelling rationalization for the feelings I still have for it. Three decades on, the animated 'Transformers: The Movie' (technically 'The Transformers: The Movie', though I've never heard anyone actually use the first "The") continues to exert an almost unreasonable nostalgic hold over the now middle-aged adults (myself included) it first traumatized back in 1986.
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