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Overview

User Rating:
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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
User Comments:
Great Movie - perfect for the time more (303 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)
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Runtime:
84 min | Argentina:85 min
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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

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Trivia:
Many of the second season characters (Stunticons, Aerialbots, etc.) do not appear in the movie because they did not exist at the time the movie was written. However, they all suddenly appear in the post-movie episodes. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Sunstreaker is seen doing road construction early on in the movie, he is present amongst the Autobots setting up the roadblock for Kup. He is also seen next to Kup when he sees Hot Rod shooting at the shuttle. Yet later in the movie, he is seen piloting the shuttle that Optimus Prime has taken to arrive to Earth, and is standing next to him as he transforms to go face Megatron. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Kranix: Arblus, look! It's Unicron!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Boogie Nights (1997) more
Soundtrack:
The Touch more

FAQ

Which characters were killed off in this movie?
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A Note Regarding Spoilers
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23 out of 27 people found the following comment useful.
Great Movie - perfect for the time, 30 June 2004
Author: regniffet from New York, NY

I thought it was perfect for its time. I recently acquired a VHS and enjoyed the movie all over again. The over rocked song, extra dramatic statements, the whole bit sent chills up my spine when I first saw it in 1986 and again in 2004. The animation wasn't the best, even for then, but that was not important. At the time I was a teenager and I enjoyed every bit of it. Transformers was my favorite cartoon, right after Voltron (the lion one). I liked the new characters, it didn't matter. It was a perfect 80's over sentimental, over rock tracked, bravado of a male ego movie aimed at little boys, even down to the vehicles, Semis, race cars, dump trucks, construction vehicles. Nowadays it wouldn't wash, with the violence and destruction (Unicron) but those were the 80's. Now everything is sanitized.

They should, however do a 2004 or 05 version revisiting OptPrime and MegaT - Imagine Pixar or whoever doing this movie it would look serious. Dinobots forever, (I dislike with a passion that stupid animal transformer series where Optimus Primal has to twist his whole body to transform. He looks rather stupid.

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