Transformers: The Movie Home Releases
More Than Just A Really Long Toy Commercial The Transformers: The Movie is one of my favorite films of all time. This wasn't always so. I loved Transformers as a kid (the toys and the cartoon), and after growing out of it for a few years, thanks to The Transformers: The Movie, I eventually grew right back into it. Why? On the surface it looks like an 86 minute toy commercial and that is definitely what it was to the people who bankrolled it, but this film has layers. The people who made it were talented and passionate and infused it with a great deal of depth that makes it more appealing to me as an adult than it did as a kid. Its story delved some truly dark themes like self sacrifice, fear, false hope, failed expectations, death and dealing with loss. It's also a story filled with hope, faith and perseverance; of light shining in the darkness. It balances peril and humor without ever coming across as disingenuous or condescending. The dialog is filled wit...