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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   18,039 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Ron Friedman (writer)
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Release Date:
8 August 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
Beyond good. Beyond evil. Beyond your wildest imagination.
Plot:
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet consuming robot who is after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(16 articles)
How To Go Bigger With Transformers 3: Unicron
 (From Screen Rant. 4 November 2009, 7:03 PM, PST)

retro trailer: ‘Transformers: The Movie’
 (From FlickFilosopher. 31 October 2009, 1:13 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
All bow to Transformers more (302 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Norman Alden ... Kranix / Arblus (voice)
Jack Angel ... Astrotrain (voice)
Michael Bell ... Prowl / Scrapper / Swoop / Junkion (voice)
Gregg Berger ... Grimlock (voice)
Susan Blu ... Arcee (voice)
Arthur Burghardt ... Devastator (voice)

Corey Burton ... Spike / Brawn / Shockwave (voice)
Roger C. Carmel ... Cyclonus / Quintesson Leader (voice)
Victor Caroli ... Narrator (voice)
Regis Cordic ... Quintesson Judge (voice)
Scatman Crothers ... Jazz (voice)
Peter Cullen ... Optimus Prime / Ironhide (voice)
Bud Davis ... Dirge (voice)

Paul Eiding ... Perceptor (voice)
Walker Edmiston ... Inferno (voice) (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Toransufômaa: Za mûbii (Japan)
Transformers the Movie: Apocalypse! Matrix Forever (Japan: English title) (working title)
Transformers: Mokushiroku! Matrix yo eien ni (Japan) (working title)
Transformers: The Movie (USA) (DVD box title)
Transformers - Der Kampf um Cybertron (West Germany) [de]
Transformers: La película (Argentina) [es]
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Runtime:
84 min | Argentina:85 min
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Color:
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:PG (Reconstructed Edition) | Singapore:PG | Argentina:Atp | Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Québec) | UK:U | USA:PG | West Germany:12 | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Australia:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The lyrics of the song "Instruments of Destruction" were slightly changed because they were deemed inappropriate. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Bonecrusher balks, "Who are you calling inferior?" his chin guard is colored grey when it should be black. Also, the "eyes" on Hook's Decepticon symbol are missing at the beginning of this scene. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Kranix: Arblus, look! It's Unicron!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Transformers (2007) more
Soundtrack:
Instruments of Destruction more

FAQ

Was Spike's expletive in the original script?
A Note Regarding Spoilers
Which characters first debuted in this movie?
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36 out of 53 people found the following comment useful.
All bow to Transformers, 13 April 2004
Author: corporate_sid from Sydney, Australia

First of all, anyone who has left a negative comment on this movie has something wrong with them, seriously. I have no idea when I first saw this movie but I was about 6-ish. I'm now 22 and this is still a bloody awesome film. I have always been a big Transformers fan and I know I might seem a bit bias, but I own the movie on DVD and have shown it to a number of transformer illiterates, male and female, young and old and still the only people I know who have ever got a bit sick of it are my parents, as they have seen it about as many times as myself. Everything about this movie is excellent, from the new characters, to the fact that the autobots seem to suck at shooting anything ( as opposed to the usual 'bad guys can't shoot for doit'.) even down to what would be, if not for the movie it's in, one of the crappiest songs ever 'the touch', by the Loins I think. THE Battle, Primes death, the creation of Galvatron, the Junkbots, Sharkticons, Unicron, IT IS ALL GOLD!!!! Anyone who liked 80's cartoons should love this movie, and so should all your Kids, if not, I think it's time to go and get checked out by your G.P.

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