The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Dec... Read allThe Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselves against an all-out attack from the Decepticons.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Orson Welles
- Unicron
- (voice)
Robert Stack
- Ultra Magnus
- (voice)
Leonard Nimoy
- Galvatron
- (voice)
Norman Alden
- Kranix
- (voice)
Jack Angel
- Astrotrain
- (voice)
Michael Bell
- Prowl
- (voice)
- …
Gregg Berger
- Grimlock
- (voice)
Arthur Burghardt
- Devastator
- (voice)
Corey Burton
- Spike
- (voice)
- …
Roger C. Carmel
- Cyclonus
- (voice)
- …
Victor Caroli
- Narrator
- (voice)
Regis Cordic
- Quintesson Judge
- (voice)
- (as Rege Cordic)
Peter Cullen
- Optimus Prime
- (voice)
- …
Scatman Crothers
- Jazz
- (voice)
Walker Edmiston
- Inferno
- (voice)
- (scenes deleted)
Paul Eiding
- Perceptor
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaScatman Crothers' final role to be released in his lifetime. One more film, Rock Odyssey (1987), would be released a year after his death.
- Goofs(at around 20 mins) When Optimus Prime arrives at Autobot City and begins wiping out Decepticons, he is seen shooting Soundwave. However, Soundwave is clearly seen later on unhurt, carrying Megatron's damaged body.
- Alternate versionsMetrodome Distribution released a 'reconstructed edition' of the movie in September 2005. The film was completely restored from the original film image for this DVD release. Metrodome went back to the original 35 mm (1.33:1 ratio) full frame negative and placed it within a widescreen format of 16:9 by creating an anamorphic transfer that respects the film's full screen format. The result is a side-curtained 1.33:1 image within a 1.78:1 ratio that fully preserves the entire field of potential viewable negative and presents the complete image with the maximum amount of visual detail possible.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Stan Bush in Concert with Vince Dicola: Botcon '97 (1998)
- SoundtracksInstruments of Destruction
Written by Ernest Petrangelo, Robin Ward and Steven Serpa
Performed by NRG
Produced by NRG
Featured review
Campy 80s fun
As a kid in the 80s this was probably the coolest and most awesome movie ever. As an adult in 2023 with few previous experiences with the Transformers franchise this movie is just campy 80s action, and it is a blast. This movie is like 80 minutes long, and at least 60 of those minutes are giant robots fighting in space and you can only go so wrong with that. The voice acting is over the top in the best way, and there's a lot of talent including Casey Kasem, Frank Weller, Scattman Cruthers, and Orson Welles. Having no knowledge of Transformers, I didn't know any of the characters names except for Optimus, Megatron, and Starscream for some reason and I didn't know or care what the story was because I was just having a ton of fun. Also the soundtrack is awesome, filled with sick 80s songs and badass instrumentals. Both times The Touch came on I was grinning ear to ear, easily one of the most underrated movie songs ever.
- HoopaDaBoopa
- Jun 11, 2023
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Transformers: The Movie
- Filming locations
- New York City, New York, USA(Sunbow Productions)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $6,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,849,647
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,779,559
- Aug 10, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $5,862,568
- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original aspect ratio)
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