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The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated science fiction action film based on the Transformers television series. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986, and in the United Kingdom on December 12, 1986.[8] 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 Transformers television series began broadcasting in 1984 to promote the Transformers toys by Hasbro; The Transformers: The Movie was conceived as a commercial tie-in to promote the 1986 line of toys.[11] The TV series featured no deaths, and the writers had already deliberately assigned familial identities to characters for young children to associate with; however, Hasbro ordered that the film kill off several existing characters to refresh the cast.[12]
Stan Bush's song "The Touch" is prominently featured in the film, having been originally written for the Sylvester Stallone film Cobra (1986).[20] A remix is featured in the 2012 video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron;[21] the song is featured in the 2018 film Bumblebee. The soundtrack includes "Instruments of Destruction" by NRG,[22] "Dare" by Stan Bush,[23] "Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way" and "Hunger" by Kick Axe (credited as Spectre General),[24] "Dare to Be Stupid" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, and a hard rock remake of the Transformers TV theme song by Lion.[25]
The film was released on August 8, 1986, to 990 screens in the United States, grossing US$1,778,559 (equivalent to about $4,748,000 in 2022) on opening weekend. It opened at 14th place behind About Last Night, which had already been in theaters for five weeks. Its final box office gross of $5,849,647 (equivalent to $15,617,000 in 2022) made it the 99th-highest-grossing film of 1986.[7] In that year, Hasbro lost a total of $10 million on its two collaborations with the one-year-old and serially failing film distribution company, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG): My Little Pony: The Movie and then The Transformers: The Movie.[6][26] Box office returns were booming across the industry, but several other small young distribution companies were similarly failing due to bulk production of many cheap films.[6] Furthermore, The Transformers was reportedly "lost in an already-crowded summer lineup" including Short Circuit, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Labyrinth, Big Trouble in Little China, The Karate Kid: Part II, Aliens, Howard the Duck, Stand by Me, Flight of the Navigator, and The Fly.[11]
The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 12, 1986, through Rank Film Distributors; in Japan, the film was initially released on LaserDisc in 1987, but would see a theatrical release through a charity showing on August 9, 1989.[27]
In the late 2010s, Den of Geek published several retrospective reviews focusing on the film's gruesome but quirky tone, and on the traumatic cultural impact of its violence which is heavier than most preceding animated films. In 2018, it said "the shadow of death hung like a black curtain" over the film and called the psychedelic scenes of Unicron's world-eating guts "a futuristic rendering of Dante's Inferno" in "apocalyptic detail".[50] In 2019, the film was called "The Great Toy Massacre of 1986" which "traumatized a generation of kids with a string of startling deaths".[12] It is remembered as "a story about death, transfiguration, guilt, and redemption",[50] and as "a milestone in animation history".[11]
Caryn James of the New York Times admitted in the August 9, 1986, edition of the paper that the film was intended for young children, pointing out that the kids in the audience were having a grand ole time with the Transformer toys and comics they brought with them to the theater, but derided the film as having little to no appeal to adults.
Variety's Film Reviews 1985-1986, Volume 19 was far less even-handed in their review, claiming the film had no appeal to adults or children. They predicted the film would perform poorly in the box office (and were correct, in that regard).
Carrie Rickey of the Dallas Morning News chided the film in the August 13, 1986, issue of the paper, describing it as "essentially a cartoon Star Wars about robots from a toybox galaxy far, far away". She then went on to say that the film "never takes off" and derided it as "uninspired".
Janice Kennedy of the Montreal Gazette verbally disemboweled the film in the August 23, 1986, edition of the paper, criticizing it as overly commercial, profane, loud, violent, humorless, heavy-handed in its religious messages and chaulk-full of gratuitous celebrity voice-overs. Her only compliment: "But The Transformers: The Movie does have at least one good thing going for it, a howlingly appropriate song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It's title? Dare to be Stupid." Ouch.
Nanciann Cherry in the August 13, 1986, edition of the Toledo Blade claimed the robots in the movie had little personality and faded into the background. She even went on to say that GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords was a superior film! Her review was filled with inaccuracies, however, citing characters such as "Unicon" and claiming that the destruction of Cybertron's moons by "Unicon" is what caused the Autobots to travel to Autobot City, at which point Megatron attacked. To be fair, she readily admits, "About 20 minutes into the film, I gave up on the plot and tried to count all the ideas that were stolen from other sources. Now that kept me busy." So she wasn't really paying attention, anyway.
Kathryn Buxton in the August 22, 1986, edition of the Palm Beach Post gave the film a whopping one star, calling it "a ripoff of a successful toyline", whatever that means. In the same article, she also gave David Cronenberg's The Fly one star, just for reference.
In the August 8, 1986, edition of the LA Times, critic Charles Solomon made clear his dislike for the film centered primarily on the fact that none of the characters had interesting or believable motivation. He stated, "Not even the best actor can create a character out of nothing. Not one of the robots has a reason for doing what he does." Solomon then pointed to Unicron specifically as an example of the lack of deep, multi-dimensional motivations in the characters.
Confusingly, in comparison to the Los Angeles Times article, modern box office tracking sites[10][11] list The Transformers: The Movie as having made $5,849,647 in domestic (e.g., United States) theaters. Comparing this with the other online box office takes from animated films of 1986, the results are not particularly charitable; while it did better financially than GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords[12] ($1,338,264) and Heathcliff: The Movie[13] ($2,610,686), it performed worse than the 1986 My Little Pony movie[14] ($5,958,456) and the second Care Bears movie[15] ($8,540,346). Bringing up The Great Mouse Detective[16] ($25,336,794) and An American Tail[17] ($47,483,002) would really just be overkill.
By 1986, The Transformers seemed to be on an unstoppable rise. Nearly 60 new Transformers would be available, including the first exclusively conceived for Transformers. Hasbro continued to pad out the line with licensed toys from manufacturers other than Takara. The line's most momentous achievement was a feature-length animated film, Transformers: The Movie. It was surrounded by a merchandising blitz, with contests, promotions, mail-ins and special edition toys.
Around the world, Takara and other Hasbro licensees had largely fallen in step with Hasbro aligning their releases to include the dozens of new characters introduced in cartoon, comic, and movie fiction. Despite the euphoric sales high experienced worldwide by the brand in 1986, it would not top the amount of growth and popularity it had experienced until many years later.
Fans were widely critical of The Transformers (1986), and at the time of its release, it received mixed reviews from critics. A common complaint the movie received was that it felt like an extended commercial for the toys, which understandably put off adult viewers. To make matters worse, the movie also featured a plot that alienated even the most die-hard of the property's fans: the shocking, unexpected death of a beloved Transformers character.
The Transformers (1986) may be an almost-incomprehensible film at points, but it has gone on to obtain a cult status. Fans of the movie appreciate its stunning animation, incredible voice cast (it was Orson Welles's final role before his death), and high-energy '80s rock soundtrack. While Optimus Prime's death remains a contentious plot point, most can agree that it's a touching tribute to the iconic character, who went out doing what he did best: protecting his people from Megatron.
The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 Japanese-American animated feature film produced by Sunbow-Marvel Productions and animated by Toei Animation. It was released in the United States on August 8, 1986 and was distributed by the, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. In other English speaking countries, the distributor was The Rank Organisation. This film takes place 20 years after the events of the Second Season of The Transformers.
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