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But your feelings won't come from the usual, come-hither automotive hype—the Camaro on another auto show turntable or featured on an umpteenth car enthusiast magazine cover.

This time the new Camaro will gather new fans—women just as likely as young guys—as an enchanting, golden yellow Autobot called Bumblebee in the Transformers movie opening July 4 from Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks.

Bumblebee joins other Autobots—also from General Motors Corp.'s considerable fleet of vehicles—to do battle with evil Decepticons when the giant alien robots come to Earth. (Any surprise that one of the prominent Decepticons is a Saleen Mustang? Ford, maker of the Mustang, is No. 2 in sales to No. 1 GM among Detroit's carmakers.)

The action-adventure movie is based on the 1980s cartoon television series where evil and good robots, in a hard-fought contest, are able to transform from unassuming, normal objects into clever personas—good and bad. (Maybe you remember the Transformers toys that were popular back then. They also transformed from one form to another, and Bumblebee at that time was a Volkswagen Beetle.)

But in the upcoming Transformers movie, the charismatic, handsome Bumblebee develops out of a lowly, beat-up, 1974 Camaro. This is much more than a simple "morphing" process. Actor Shia LaBeouf portrays a rather nerdy young man who owns the Camaro clunker—complete with worn leather seats and 8-track tape player inside—and meets his love interest, played by Megan Fox, who helps him fix up the car as today's sleek Camaro concept.

The casting of the Camaro—which surprisingly predated even the first public showing of the revived Camaro concept at an auto show in Detroit—couldn't be better for Chevy, its parent company GM and the new Camaro even if the automaker had taken over the writing duties for Hollywood.

For one thing, Chevy needs a way to keep up the excitement and anticipation of the coming new Camaro. While the Camaro was first shown as a concept car at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January 2006, production Camaros won't be in showrooms until 2009. This is a long time to try to sustain buyer interest.

For another, the movie uses the latest graphic, computer-animated detail to visualize the old Camaro transforming into the Camaro concept in a way that no automaker press conference or ad campaign ever could. Talk about a powerful way to link the evolution of the upcoming Camaro to a Camaro of old and tie in the lengthy Camaro heritage. (Camaros, which originated as a competitor to Ford's Mustang, were sold in the U.S. from 1967 to 2002.)

Movie Details You Might Not Notice
With Michael Bay directing (he also directed and produced 1998's Armageddon and 2001's Pearl Harbor films) and Stephen Spielberg as executive producer, there's a lot of action in the movie.

So don't be surprised if you're not aware of all the changes in the Camaro that you'll see on screen. The sleek, shapely styling change from one era of Camaro to today is obvious. Here are some of the more subtle changes:

The car's wheels go from 15-inchers, which were standard in the '70s, to 20-inchers on the front of the Camaro concept and 22-inchers in back. Wheels and tires have been growing larger in diameter on production cars for decades. These days, the vehicles still wearing 15-inch wheels are some small cars like the base Honda Civic.

The yellow paint on the old Camaro is bright, cheery yellow—a lot brighter than many Camaro buffs might remember. But on the movie car of the '70s, it has seen better days, with dirt, rust and dents purposely applied. On the transformed Camaro, the paint is a richer, golden yellow that uses the best paint process and clear coat of today. And, of course, there are no dents or rust.

Gaps between body panels on the 1970s Camaro are as large and unsightly as they were back then. The old Camaro in the movie even has a trunk lid that's not well-aligned, reminiscent of the kind of quality Detroit became known for. But in the transformed Camaro, body gaps are minimal to present the kind of detailed, high-quality appearance that Detroit automakers strive for today.

The puny outside mirrors on the 1970s Camaro are accented with a silver color and look more like women's portable mirrors than mirrors for a sporty car. The transformed Camaro has sleekly styled mirrors that meld into the car with body color, not chrome.

The new Camaro also eschews the shiny, silver-colored trim that was around the old Camaro's windshield and rear window. It's a little too frou-frou now. Besides, that trim could get loose and even fall off on 1970s cars.

The old Camaro was fueled at the back of the car. A driver had to pull down the back license plate to get at the fuel filler cover. (Some people may remember how sharply the license plate could snap back in place and smack fingers.) In contrast, the Camaro concept has its fuel filler door in a prominent location—on a rear fender and outlined with a matte silver door.

The silver-colored, metal, front bumper with unsightly center black rubber bumper strip is gone. The new Camaro has a body-color front fascia that tidily hides the crash protection parts. And that hood scoop? It had exposed bolt heads in the 1974 Camaro but is seamlessly integrated into the hood of the new Camaro.

And, oh yes, the Camaro name is much larger on the new car than it was on the old one. This isn't just for the movie, by the way. The badging will be sizable when the new Camaro arrives at dealerships.

The dashboard inside the 1970s Camaro extends inside just a short way. The dashboard on the transformed, new Camaro is much more substantial.

There are head restraints for both front and rear passengers in the new Camaro. The 1974 Camaro had no head restraints in the back seat.

And the tall, silver-colored door lock pulls are visible at the top of the old Camaro doors in a needlessly prominent, old-fashioned way. They're handled more subtly in the new Camaro—just as they are in most other vehicles now.

Camaro Leads Other GM Movie "Stars"
While the yellow Camaro promises to be the eye-catcher in the movie, GM has three other prominent car characters in the film, making Transformers something of a GM coup for the big screen.

No one in the auto industry seemed to recall another movie where one automaker had so many vehicles playing major roles in one film. Remember, the Transformers in this movie are part and parcel of the story, not just used to cart actors around and provide background. And, in contrast with last year's Cars movie from Pixar, the major car characters are easily identifiable by make and model.

For example, in Transformers, Pontiac's Solstice has the role of Jazz, a gray hardtop 2-seat Autobot. Note that when the movie was in production, GM had only started selling the Solstice as a convertible. So, like the Camaro's Bumblebee, the Jazz Solstice is a car that still does not exist in showrooms.

Autobot Ratchet is played by a Hummer H2 that's modified to be a rescue vehicle. It's painted a fluorescent light green and has a winch and brush guard in front, shovels on its sides, and at least seven off-road lights on various light bars.

GM's other prominent character is Ironhide, played by a GMC TopKick pickup truck with Duramax diesel engine. The already tall truck is heavily modified with a winch, light bar and off-road, Extreme Terrain tires that are so large, they come to my waist when I stand next to them, and I'm 5 feet 4.

The "Scoop" Inside the Movie Cars
GM officials had not even decided whether to show a Camaro concept car at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit when movie director Bay was scouting for vehicles for the film in 2005.

But during a visit to a GM design center, Bay spotted a Camaro concept and was convinced it was the perfect vehicle to be Bumblebee. Indeed, according to GM officials, Bay was likely the first non-GM, non-industry person to see the Camaro.

Because the Camaro wasn't in running form, movie personnel used a Camaro concept that had the rear-wheel-drive setup underneath it from a Pontiac GTO. At the time, GM was importing a GTO from its Australian unit. This GTO ended U.S. sales in calendar 2006, and the upcoming production Camaro will use a different rear-wheel-drive platform.

In the Transformers movie, the cars are supposed to be driving themselves. So stunt personnel had to wear black, including black balaclavas to obscure their faces.

Who knew cops had a sense of humor? The movie's Saleen Mustang police car, complete with light bar on the roof and a push bar, bears some novel wording that brought chuckles from some regular police who happened on it during filming. Instead of "To protect and serve" on the car's fenders, the movie car has the words "to punish and enslave."

Ann Job is a freelance automotive writer.

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In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, a Decepticon — one of those evil robots that looks like a junk heap of pewter shards designed by H.R. Giger — floats around in space, where it sends a ball of fire rocketing to Earth. The asteroid-like object hits the ocean, where it emerges as a prancing metallic cougar, which then vomits out a mass of ball bearings, which somehow assemble themselves into a super-thin droid that's like a Calder sculpture made entirely of jackknives. And it's this dude who gets down to business, attempting to steal the shard that will animate the dormant Decepticons hidden on Earth. The sheer velocity of all this shape-shifting is dizzying and funny and zigzag cool. The sequence serves no real purpose beyond dazzle for dazzle's sake, but when you're watching it, that's purpose enough. Revenge of the Fallen has a number of dead spots, but every time the movie hits one, you can sit back in eager, childish anticipation of the next feat of industrial whirligig diversion.

When I was growing up, no movie could take me out of this world quite like a giant-monster movie. Them! and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Godzilla and his Japanese rubber-gigantor brethren: Even flickering from the confines of a small-screen TV, these creature features delivered a blast of apocalyptic awe that made their utter ricketiness as movies forgivable, at times endearing. I got a twinge of nostalgia for those days watching Revenge of the Fallen, in which the Decepticons resume their war against the Autobots, those friendly converted vehicles who wear their machine guts on the outside. The movie is sort of like the super-size, metal-on-metal version of an old nuclear-mutant monster battle.

Directed by Michael Bay, and co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Revenge of the Fallen is slovenly, bombastic, overly busy, and — at two hours and 29 minutes — far too long. The plot, which sends Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) to his freshman year at a debauched East Coast college and then to the ruins of Egypt, suggests an awkward smelting of Bret Easton Ellis and Indiana Jones; it offers more frantic incident than it does purpose or sense. Yet each time the film reaches another clash of the titans, it becomes more than just a souped-up toy commercial. These toys have wizardry and grandeur. And in the case of Optimus Prime, the noble Autobot who converts into his nuts-and-bolts self out of a truck with a nifty orange-flame insignia, they also have a glimmer of soul.

Shia LaBeouf seems to get taller and leaner, more confidently chiseled, with each new movie. But he'll always have his precocious kid's quick-start mind, and in Revenge of the Fallen, he uses it to play off on-screen girlfriend Megan Fox, with her porno-doll sultriness, as if they were in a romantic comedy. She's like Angelina Jolie before Jolie got too serious to be irresponsibly sexy, and Revenge of the Fallen needs their jovial, flirtatious chemistry; the movie would be too much of a juvenile boys' bash without it. At college, Sam, having touched one of those otherworldly shards, finds himself possessed by a series of ancient symbols, and though this development is just a thin rehash of Richard Dreyfuss' possession in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, LaBeouf, talking a mile a minute, does something witty: He literally makes you feel that his brain is working too fast for his mouth. I liked the hurtling speed of these scenes — Ramon Rodriguez, from The Wire, brings his own motormouth brio to the role of Sam's master-of-the-Internet roommate — but Bay, unfortunately, can't sustain it. Whenever the U.S. military comes into the picture, the movie stiffens and lumbers, and the return of John Turturro as Sector 7 Agent Simmons is one babbling, pop-eyed tech freak too many.

At last year's Comic-Con convention, several representatives of Revenge of the Fallen appeared with the slogan ''Bigger. F---ing. Robots.'' on their T-shirts, and Bay, taking that cue, knows just what his job is relative to the first Transformers (2007): It's to make the movie huger, louder, smashier, and — on the mechanical level — more crazily, audaciously imaginative. He succeeds. Revenge of the Fallen showcases an infectiously diverse brigade of chattery unfolding contraptions, from mechanical gremlins that transform out of kitchen appliances to one that erupts from a vintage airplane to a coed with a tongue of steel. Each of these creature-gizmos has a marvelous, organic fluidity — they don't just move, they clank and roll. And it was an inspired touch to set the film's most ferocious battle amid the Pyramids, featuring a Decepticon so humungous it just about waddles with power. Revenge of the Fallen may be a massive overdose of popcorn greased with motor oil. But it knows how to feed your inner 10-year-old's appetite for destruction. B

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So I finally got around to watching the new Transformers Movie and I've got to say, I'm disappointed. Let's do a quick recap just so we know where we are.

The first Transformers movie had Sam (Shia Lebeouf) purchasing first car and somehow ending up with the transformer named Bumblebee. He was on earth because the Autobots were trying to fight the Decepticons who had hidden the spark of life, a cube called the All Spark on earth (isn't it funny how all these advanced races seem to find earth so fascinating that they feel they must visit here and hide stuff here even though they think of us as puny humans who are so worthless of their time and consideration that we ought to be considered like ants?). At the end of the first movie, readers will recall, the All Spark was destroyed when Sam rammed it into the chest of Megatron, the leader of the Decepticons.

Fast forward two years and Sam is now off to college while the Autobots are busy destroying what is left of the Decepticons. Little do the Autobots know however that the Decepticons have a plan and have had one all along. Another source of ultimate power exists on earth, a machine which will snuff out our sun and kill all of humanity, but would be good for the Decepticons because they can build a new army and destroy everything in site.

Now the one good thing is that the special effects are awesome. Lots of stuff blows up, there are many more transformers on earth now and several of them are transformers pets, including dogs and what can only be described as a vacuum dragon. But that is about as far as it goes.

The acting is bad and story line is worse. In the new Transformers movie, all the information the Decepticons need in order to make their plan a reality is transmitted over an open comm line where they can easily intercept it and it is done by none other than a total moron who is apparently taking order directly from President Obama (they make a brief mention in the beginning of the movie of Obama being moved to a secure location). Frankly, if this idiot was really representative of the Obama administration, the Iranians would be laughing at us when we approach them regarding nuclear weapons (oh wait, they are anyway). The movie meanders on, trying to make a point, but utterly failing to do so.

Somehow Optimus is the only one who can defeat the new leader of the Decepticons, known as the Fallen, but we are never told why, just that only he can do it. Because he can punch harder than any other Autobot? Your guess is as good as mine.

With a plot full of holes, horrible acting and terribly clichéd story lines, the new Transformers Movie is worth a pass.

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The bubbleheaded bombshell’s recent comments blasting Transformers director Michael Bay as tough to work for than “Hitler” — coupled with a scornful letter penned by members of the film’s crew, which slam Meg as an ungrateful brat — could cost the outspoken brunette her job in the upcoming third installment.

Movie industry insiders tell In Touch Weekly, Michael is considering writing Megan out of the series in a gory death scene in the first few frames of Transformers 3 and replacing with another gorgeous young actress.

“Michael’s pretty much discovered Megan and now he’s very quietly looking for her replacement,” the source spilled. “He hasn’t decided if he’s going to kill her off in the next movie, but he just wants to be prepared.”

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More than 750 parts stretching a half-mile long. Some 350 engineers working round-the-clock. Thousands of rusty, old mechanic photos — clutch plates, transmissions, brake discs — spilling across the table. All for one beat-up Camaro? Sure doesn't sound like your average auto manufacturer.

"The idea is they're not fresh off the showroom floor," says Jeff White, the man charged with creating the yellow sports car and 13 others for a big new garage. He's right: They're supposed to look realer than that. And be from outer space. And turn into 30-ft. robots. And save the universe.

That's all in a day's work for the motor magicians at George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), who for the last two years have been juggling the limits of the possible (turning a real car into a fake robot and figuring out what the heck to put inside) and the demands of reality (studio budgets, GM sponsorship, the wrath of fanboys worldwide) to build the most painstaking — and maybe most believable — effects achievement in movie history: Transformers.

When it revs up at the box office this Fourth of July, Michael Bay's $150 million adaptation of the legendary 1980s cartoon and toy series will include nearly 50 so-called transformations. Hand-rendered metallic uncorkings of real-life cars, trucks and helicopters represented uncharted territory for the gooey-alien experts at ILM, each transformation taking six months to imagine and each re-engineering the way digital Hollywood does computer graphics imagery (CGI).

"How are we gonna get this thing from a car into the robot and back in a believable way?" White, the film's digital production supervisor, asked the Transformers crew in 2005, when, after their back-and-forth with toymaker Hasbro, the F/X plan consisted of little more than robot sketches and shiny new Hummers — and not much in between. "Of course, Michael Bay wants a lot of energy, he wants ninja-fighting warriors that can punch and put their arms over their heads and do all this crazy stuff," White says. "So we had to design these really complicated systems — how do all these systems match together and fly over each other to keep it looking real? And that was a huge challenge."

Under-prepared, a New Road Map

From Jar Jar Binks in the new Star Wars films to villains of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, the modern CGI pipeline has tended to work from the ground up: Pre-build a creature, film it with a stand-in on set, then animate it to react, to actors such as Samuel L. Jackson or Johnny Depp, in postproduction. But after realizing that the simple route, with one transformation per Autobot or Decepticon, might not look robotic enough, Bay and Co. pulled a 280-terabyte U-turn.

ILM designed a backwards interface, moving the beginning of CGI production out of the hands of creature development and onto the desktops of the animators. By allowing animators to get the first crack at rigging control — the way a computer-generated character is built, the way it walks and rotates — ILM's IT team could develop software for custom transformations designed on the fly that might satisfy Bay's notorious flying camera angles. Click a button here, and a flatbed's brake light can pivot into an Optimus Prime punch. Set a control function there, and an alien jetfighter wing can cock into a Megatron claw for any of a half-dozen different scenes.

For a character like Bumblebee, hiding untransformed inside that '74 Camaro as the shy protector of the movie's human hero, this tradeoff was crucial: the stand-up robot with feelings and the boy's beat-up car with rust were set in stone, so it was the hybrid halfway point that would represent the real character development.

"We start with the end result first, then work backwards from there," says animation supervisor Scott Benza. "We'll start Bumblebee standing up in his pose in the composition of the shot, then collapse him down into something of a car shape, where we fold his arms in and hover him down close to the street. And then we deal with what we have to fill in the in-between."

Under the Hood, the Superunknown

When that crucial "in-between" involves over 10,000 hand-modeled parts pulled out of actual autobody — as Optimus Prime did (his old-school toy had a mere 51 components) — there's a bit more filling in to do. "It's hugely complicated," says visual effects supervisor Scott Farrar. "It's no different than going out and machining these parts [in a real car]. Every one of those things has to be connected and travel in the right direction when an animation occurs."

It started with ILM's creature development team (well versed in children's movie animals but not so much in carburetors) heading to the autobody shop in early 2006 and lifting up the hoods of real-life cars to develop as many real-looking car parts as possible. These formed the innards underneath the exoskeleton provided to the animators. But building a design system that allowed the animators to move all those pieces quickly — and to fit them into the finished robot, designed almost a year earlier, without banging parts into each other — was the real headache.

The 30-year-old Camaro grille, then, may not have been the exact one that ended up on Bumblebee's chest, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Visual effects art director Alex Jaeger built frame-by-frame movements so an animator could take a thinly slatted grille and flip it into a three-slat grille like Venetian blinds. That way, at least, Bumblebee would become both muscular and recognizable (he takes seven different forms — used car, concept car and battered bot among them). Toying with the classic Camaro aside, this hero's transformation represented a massive CGI maneuver, with nearly 20,000 nodes in the movable rig: Jaeger had to break apart a fender close to the ground to unleash Bumbleebee's arm, then disassemble a brake disc attached to the arm before shifting out of the way that will eventually end up on his shoulder.

And Jaeger couldn't screw up. Not while he was working for the guy who reignited Pearl Harbor, who told Bruce Willis how to nuke an asteroid from a space shuttle. No way. "Michael's a very, very particular person when it comes to..." Jaeger trails off. Better be careful with Boss Bay. "This is a man who's shot many a car commercial, so he's very particular on the finishes and the materials on the cars as well as the robots."

Under the Gun, the Finishing Brushes

Optimus Prime has lips. Moving metal lips. The Autobot leader went to the grave in the original 1986 movie without ever having opened his voice box, but Bay hated the idea of action heroes wearing a mask. So he had ILM juice up each robot's jaws, eyes and metallic visage, from cartoony strobe light to winking, blinking, crackling Norelco blades.

But the most important finishing touch? Grease. Lots of it. Sure, stagehands dusted off the real Pontiac Solstice GXP before the cameras rolled, but digital painters at ILM were shading the doors and really mucking up each car's gearbox guts before they rolled up into robots. "Here we've got a car but we don't have any robots, so that's what made this project way harder than Pearl Harbor, where we had real planes to look at," says Ron Woodall, admitting that he painted some cars to look twice as dirty as their exteriors. "We don't have a target, and it's up to everyone's imagination."

Ultimately, that's the point of spending $150 million on car chases, explosions and millions of little CGI polygons: Drummed-up digital trickery is now at the level of turning the unreal into the real — as long as it doesn't seem too cheesy, and doesn't piss off too many fans. "Our goal is to please Michael Bay. He's got to answer to all the other folks," Benza says. "So top of the priority list? If it looks cool, that's where we start. That's the ultimate goal, then we can figure out ways to get the Chevy logo visible and the kind of signature things that the GM folks wanted in there. But I think ultimately even GM wanted Michael to have creative control over the coolness of the transformations."

What ends up on the silver screen this week is something that for once actually looks silver, justifiably chrome. Bay even had to send back one of the few non-CGI scale models made for the film — a painted fiberglass Bumblebee made for a scene when the Autobot savior is tied to train tracks — because it didn't look real enough. "It's been a struggle for all of us in this business to get the computer graphics looking as good as they are now, and I really do believe Transformers is a new high-water mark for making materials look good," says Farrar, the visual-effects supervisor and Bay's right-hand computer geek. "It's surprisingly complicated in the world of computer graphics to make objects look like what everybody in the world sees every day."

You may be asking "What makes the Transformers Movie 2 Voyager Optimus Prime a must have toy?" Well if you ever played with this tough looking Peterbilt 379 BIG rig with red and blue flame decor streaked across the nose, I think you might found out.

What Makes the Transformers Movie 2 Voyager Optimus Prime a Must Have Toy

• This is the best Toy on the market hands down. Prime does such a great job at hiding the pieces that transform. When in vehicle mode you will not see any visible clips or hinges. The new longer wheel section along with a slightly tapered hood gives the Prime a more screen accurate look than its predecessor.
• However, there is a slight downgrade with the plastic tires instead of rubber. This is no big deal when you consider how complex and expensive in nature this toy is, so I say it's forgivable.
• When pushed, a nicely concealed button will play a revving truck engine sound. Also, you will see the lights and windows light up. This button is very skillfully located on the back of the cab. Holding down on the button will continue the revving motor sound, until released.
• This toy is the ultimate in transformation fun. The best toy based on the movie prime you're going to find. I must warn you though. This version of the Prime is "absolutely insane".
• It's the most complex & complicated conversion of any transformer that I have ever seen. You think masterpiece figures are awesome, wait till you check out Movie 2 Voyager Optimus Prime. Finally, a masterpiece crafted so fine and the details and so amazing you may want to put it on a display shelf.
• Nevertheless, the difficulty of the transformer can be excused. Because it turns into one of the most mind-bending - marvelous transformations I have ever seen. One the most gorgeous and magnificently designed robots ever created. It's a must have, and now it is the favorite in my collection.

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The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated feature film based on the animated series of the same name. It was released in North America on August 8, 1986.

The film was directed by Nelson Shin, who produced the original Transformers television series, and features the voices of Eric Idle, Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy, Casey Kasem, Robert Stack, John Moschitta, Jr., Peter Cullen and Frank Welker. It was also the final role for both Orson Welles^[1] and Scatman Crothers.

The story takes place in 2005, 20 years after the events of the TV series' second season and serves to bridge into the third season. Set to a hard-driving metal music soundtrack, the movie has a decidedly darker tone than the television series, with detailed visuals in Toei Animation's typical animated feature film styling, and Decepticon villains that are more menacing, killing without hesitation. The film features several grand battles in which a handful of major characters meet their end. The film's tagline was: "Beyond Good. Beyond Evil. Beyond Your Wildest Imagination."

Plot

Unicron, a roaming artificial planet, devours robot planet Lithone along with its population. Though many inhabitants attempt to flee the planet in spaceships, only one escapes.

The evil Decepticons have gained control of the Transformers' homeworld, Cybertron at some point in the twenty years since the beginning of the struggle between the robotic warriors on Earth. The heroic Autobots are using two of Cybertron's moons as staging areas, preparing for a strike against the Decepticons. A supply shuttle is readied for launch to Autobot City on Earth. A transmission is intercepted by the Decepticons, who ambush the shuttle and kill its crew. The Decepticons intend to use the ship to infiltrate Autobot City on Earth.

On Earth, Daniel Witwicky and Hot Rod fish in a lake near Autobot City, discussing Daniel's loneliness, as his father Spike is on one of the moon bases. They pick up the shuttle's signature, and race up to Lookout Mountain to see it land. They spot the Decepticons and launch a preemptive strike. After a brief battle, the Decepticons begin attacking Autobot City. The outnumbered Autobots, including Ultra Magnus, Blurr, Springer, Perceptor, and Arcee, transform Autobot City into a battle fortress. A siege ensues, lasting the rest of the day and the following night. Early in the battle, Ultra Magnus orders Blaster to radio for assistance from Optimus Prime. The next morning Optimus and the Dinobots repel the Decepticons.

Optimus confronts his arch-enemy, Megatron. They engage in a battle that leaves Optimus critically wounded due to Hot Rod's interference. Optimus turns the tide of battle and defeats Megatron. Starscream takes command of the Decepticons and retreats with their fallen leader and other war-wounded loaded aboard Astrotrain.

Inside Autobot City, Perceptor informs the other Autobots that Optimus Prime's wounds are fatal. Optimus calls on Ultra Magnus to assume command of the Autobots and bestows him with the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus extracts from his chest. Before dying, Optimus asserts that the Matrix one day will light the Autobots' darkest hour.

Astrotrain's shortage of fuel prompts the Decepticons to eject several of their injured — including the protesting Megatron. The remaining Decepticons argue over who should lead them.

Adrift in space, the Decepticon castoffs encounter Unicron, who offers to give Megatron and the others new bodies on the condition that they destroy the Autobot Matrix, which, Unicron says, is the only thing that can stand in his way. Megatron agrees, and Unicron converts Megatron into a new form: the Decepticon warrior "Galvatron". His underlings are reformatted into Cyclonus, Scourge, and the Sweeps. Unicron provides them with a craft in which they travel to Cybertron, where Galvatron obliterates Starscream and takes command of the Decepticons.

On Earth, the Autobots are alerted as Unicron consumes Cybertron's moons, along with Autobots Jazz, Bumblebee, Cliffjumper and Daniel's father Spike. Galvatron leads the Decepticons in another assault on Autobot City. The Autobots board a pair of shuttles and flee toward Cybertron. Hot Rod, Kup and the Dinobots are shot down over the planet Quintessa, while Ultra Magnus and company evade their pursuers and set down on the planet Junk for repairs.

Captured by Quintessa guardsmen, Hot Rod and Kup witness the sentencing and execution of Arbulus, a native of Lithone. While imprisoned they meet Kranix, now Lithone's last survivor, who then tells them about Unicron, before he's taken away by the Quintessa guardsmen to also be fed to the Sharkticons. Hot Rod and Kup are then subjected to a mock trial by Quintesson executioners, who sentence them to execution. Battling the Sharkticons, they are rescued by the arrival of the Dinobots. Grimlock persuades the Sharkticons to rebel against the Quintessons while the Autobots escape. With help from the Dinobots' new ally, Wheelie, the group locates a ship and departs to join the other Autobots.

Galvatron finds and hunts down the Autobots on Junk. Ultra Magnus tries but fails to awaken the Matrix's powers, and is dismembered by the Sweeps. Galvatron, no longer willing to serve Unicron, steals the Matrix, stating that he will use it to make Unicron his slave. The remaining Autobots are harassed by hostile Junkion natives, led by Wreck-Gar, until Hot Rod's party arrives and befriends them. The Junkions repair Ultra Magnus and provide a vessel to help the Autobots fight against Unicron.

Galvatron attempts to subjugate Unicron using the Matrix but is unable to unleash its power. Unicron, saying that Galvatron underestimates him, transforms into a planet-sized robot and attacks Cybertron. Galvatron opens fire on Unicron, but Unicron swallows him. Decepticons attempt to counter Unicron's attack, to no avail. When the Autobots arrive Hot Rod crashes their ship through one of Unicron's eyes and they find themselves separated within his body. Wreck-Gar and his Junkions fight back against Unicron, but Unicron crushes their ship. The Dinobots also attack Unicron, with little success.

Inside Unicron, Hot Rod confronts Galvatron while Daniel and the other Autobots rescue Spike and the survivors of Unicron's assault on Cybertron's moons. The Autobots and Decepticons work togather to try and fight Unicron. Galvatron tries to assist Hot Rod, knowing that Unicron is a greater threat, only for Unicron to take control of Galvatron. Hot Rod recovers the Matrix and unleashes its power, transforming him into Rodimus Prime. Rodimus throws Galvatron deep into space freeing the decepticon from control.Rodimus then unleashes the Matrix's true power from insde of Unicron, finally oblitirating Unicron. Rodimus leads the other Autobots out of Unicron's body before it explodes. The Autobots, triumphant and now outnumbering the Decepticons, reclaim Cybertron. Unicron's heavily damaged head orbits Cybertron as a new satellite.

[edit] Character deaths

Autobot casualties outnumbered those of the Decepticons. Among the Autobots shown dead on screen are Optimus Prime, Ironhide, Prowl, Ratchet, Brawn, Windcharger, and Wheeljack. Outside of these characters, a substantial number of Autobots from the first two seasons of the show do not appear after the film, leaving their fates uncertain.

Aside from Starscream and several Sweeps, there are virtually no Decepticon deaths in the movie, and even those who die are not killed by Autobots. Several of the injured Decepticons are reformatted by Unicron, and while it is clear that Galvatron has Megatron's memories, it is less so with Cyclonus and Scourge, as Thundercracker, Skywarp and Starscream are depicted as having grave markers in a subterranean Decepticon crypt on Cybertron in the episode "Starscream's Ghost". Shockwave's death was scripted but cut from the finished film;^[2] it was reinstated for IDW Publishing's adaptation of the feature, printed in 2006. However, a rather different-colored Shockwave makes a couple of appearances in the season premiere sequel Five Faces of Darkness. One of the intentions of the movie was to rid the Transformers cartoon universe of the majority of characters from Seasons 1 and 2. Story consultant Flint Dille elaborated:

“

In the next season (3), we were going to have all these new characters, and people are going to be wondering what happened to the old characters that they liked so much. What we knew, in a business sense, is that they had been discontinued, because they were the 1984/1985 (toy)line – but, we needed to tie them off. So, we had this one scene where the Autobots basically had to run through a gauntlet of Decepticons. Which basically wiped out the entire '84 product line in one massive "charge of the light brigade". So, whoever wasn't discontinued, stumbled to the end. That scene didn’t make it into the finished movie. But if you think kids were locking themselves in the bedroom over Optimus Prime, basically in that scene they would've seen their entire toy collection wiped out.[3]

”

The movie was produced by Sunbow/Marvel simultaneous to G.I. Joe: The Movie. The writers of the G.I. Joe film asked for permission from Hasbro to kill a character, Duke. Hasbro not only approved the request but "insisted" that the writers of Transformers: The Movie adopt the same fate for Optimus Prime.^[4] However, Optimus Prime's death sparked much controversy and incurred so much backlash that it caused the writers to make changes so that Duke simply ended up in a coma (and eventually woke up from the coma).^[5]

Cast

Role	English voice actor	Japanese seiyū
Optimus Prime	Peter Cullen	Tesshō Genda
Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime	Judd Nelson	Hiroya Ishimaru
Ultra Magnus	Robert Stack	Shō Hayami
Springer	Neil Ross	Kenyū Horiuchi
Arcee	Susan Blu	Masako Katsuki
Kup	Lionel Stander	Osamu Saka
Wheelie	Frank Welker	Kazue Komiya
Blurr	John Moschitta, Jr.	Ken Yamaguchi
Blaster	Buster Jones	Keiichi Nanba
Perceptor	Paul Eiding	Ken Shiroyama
Grimlock	Gregg Berger	Takurō Kitagawa
Slag	Neil Ross	Ken Yamaguchi
Swoop	Michael Bell	Yoku Shioya
Jazz	Scatman Crothers	Minoru Inaba
Cliffjumper	Casey Kasem	Takurō Kitagawa
Bumblebee	Dan Gilvezan	Yoku Shioya
Ironhide	Peter Cullen	Shō Hayami
Brawn	Corey Burton	Minoru Inaba
Megatron	Frank Welker	Seizō Katō
Galvatron	Leonard Nimoy	Seizō Katō
Cyclonus	Roger C. Carmel	Minoru Inaba
Scourge	Stan Jones	Yū Shimaka
Starscream	Chris Latta	Hirotaka Suzuoki
Soundwave	Frank Welker	Issei Masamune
Frenzy	Frank Welker	Ken Shiroyama
Rumble	Frank Welker	Ken Yamaguchi
Devastator	Arthur Burghardt	Yū Shimaka
Bonecrusher	Neil Ross	Toshirō Ishii
Hook	Neil Ross	Masashi Ebara
Scavenger	Don Messick	Keiichi Nanba
Scrapper	Michael Bell	Keiichi Nanba
Astrotrain	Jack Angel	Takurō Kitagawa
Blitzwing	Ed Gilbert	Masashi Ebara
Shockwave	Corey Burton	Yū Shimaka
Kickback	Clive Revill	Yoku Shioya
Shrapnel	Hal Rayle	Toshirō Ishii
Unicron	Orson Welles	Mizuho Suzuki
Quintesson Leader	Roger C. Carmel	Masashi Ebara
Wreck-Gar	Eric Idle	Toshirō Ishii
Spike Witwicky	Corey Burton	Masashi Ebara
Daniel Witwicky	David Mendenhall	Mayumi Tanaka
Kranix	Norman Alden	Toshirō Ishii
Narrator	Victor Caroli	Issei Masamune

In addition to the above-listed characters, many additional Transformers appear throughout the film in non-speaking roles.

The Transformers: The Movie was the final film to which Orson Welles contributed, although not the final film released. He was in declining health during production. Shortly before he died, he told his biographer, Barbara Leaming, "You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy." He elaborated, "I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen."^[6] Welles' voice was apparently so weak by the time he made his recording that technicians needed to run it through a synthesizer to salvage it. The voicework for Transformers: The Movie was the last movie project he worked on; his voice session was on October 5, 1985, and five days later Welles died of a heart attack.^[7]

The credits list several characters that either do not appear or do not speak in the finished film. Bell is also credited as Prowl, who does not speak. Messick is credited for Gears, who doesn't speak, instead of Scavenger, who does. The credits include Bud Davis as Dirge, who had lines cut from the film's original script, and Walker Edmiston as Inferno, who does not appear in either the film or script.

Peter Cullen is credited above Scatman Crothers, even though the cast members are usually listed in alphabetical order.

[edit] Release

Although the trailer hails the film as "spectacular widescreen action", the movie was animated in 4:3 "fullscreen" format. The feature was vertically cropped to widescreen dimensions for theatrical showings and released in fullscreen on home video and DVD. The 20th anniversary release of the movie by Sony, however features the cropped widescreen presentation.^[8] The UK version of the film features scrolling text and narration at the beginning of the film replacing the cast credits, and an additional closing narration assuring viewers that "Optimus Prime will return." The Japanese version of the movie also includes these additions, and displays each character's name briefly at the bottom of the screen when they first appear. The film has been released on Blu-ray Disc outside the United States, however those versions are region-free and will play in an American Blu-Ray machine.

[edit] Reception

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The Transformers: The Movie was met with mixed reviews. The film currently has a 50% "rotten" rating on Rottentomatoes. Critics panned the film for its animation style which was then unfamiliar to American audiences. The movie was also criticized for flat characters, as well as the grief it caused younger viewers with its massive character deaths and dark tone. The death of Optimus Prime came as a major shock to both critics and audiences, which caused his voice artist, Peter Cullen, to realize Optimus' overwhelming popularity. Some critics said that the action scenes in the film were enough to keep children's interest into the feature, but also said the storyline would bore viewers who were over 10 years of age. The Transformers: The Movie was also a huge flop in the box office, taking in only $5 million during its opening weekend. Nevertheless, the film has developed a cult following towards audiences inside and outside the Transformers fandom. Many fans especially praised the film's soundtrack, with songs performed by Stan Bush and "Weird Al" Yankovic, as well as the synth-based score of Vince DiCola. Bush's song "The Touch," which prominently featured in the film, was originally written for the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra. ^[9]

[edit] Commercial releases

The film was originally released in 1987 on VHS^[10] in North America by Family Home Entertainment. This version removed Spike's "Oh, shit!" line. The video transfer suffered from a slight clockwise tilt (but no more than a couple of degrees).^{[citation needed]}

The film was first released on DVD in 2000^[11] by Sunbow Productions and distributed exclusively in Canada by Seville Pictures.^[12] This version restored Spike's "Oh, shit!" line. The film was later released on DVD by Rhino Entertainment in North America and Maverick in the UK, both in 2001. Metrodome later licensed the movie to Prism Leisure to release a budget version in June 2003.

On September 5, 2005, Metrodome Distribution released a remastered DVD entitled Transformers: The Movie Reconstructed. Returning to the original negative of the film, Metrodome reconstructed the picture image, adjusting and shrinking it to reveal additional footage hidden by overscan, as well as remastering the video quality. Some complaints^[who?] arose from the fact that this exposed areas of unfinished animation as these parts of the frame were not intended to be seen. Magno Sound's Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound remix contains many sounds not in the original version, as with the remixes done for the Transformers season boxsets, and Magno subsequently claimed that they had always been present.^{[citation needed]} The DVD also included the first subtitled episode of the Japanese-exclusive series, Transformers: The Headmasters, the entirety of which was released in a DVD boxset for the first time in the UK, and the west, on September 26, 2005.

20th anniversary DVD

The lenticular cover of Sony BMG's release of the 20th Anniversary Transformers: The Movie Special Edition DVD

Sony BMG released "The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD" in North America (Region 1) on November 7, 2006. It features both the 16x9 widescreen version seen in cinemas and the full-frame version of the film. This version also restores the DEG opening logo that was part of the original screened version but was cut from the Rhino DVD. The two-disc set contains the following features:

Disc 1

• 16×9 theatrical widescreen version
• Autobot Matrix of Knowledge (full-length movie featuring fun facts and trivia)
• Commentary with Nelson Shin (Director), Flint Dille (Story Consultant), and Sue Blu (Voice of Arcee)
• Fan commentary
• Original theatrical trailer and TV spots
• Cinex and credit test
• Photo gallery
• Transformers: Scramble City episode with commentary
• Remastering side-by-side comparison
• Transformers movie trailer and special sneak peek

Disc 2

• Full-screen version
• Activate Autobot City trivia game (DVD-ROM)
• Featurettes: "Death of Optimus Prime", "Cast and Characters" and "TRANSFORMERS Q&A" with Nelson Shin (director), Tom Griffin (producer), Joe Bacal (producer), Flint Dille (story consultant), and Sue Blu (voice of Arcee)
• Promotional Trailer with Commentary
• Test, deleted, and alternate footage with commentary
• Animated storyboards
• American and Japanese toy commercials
• Scramble City commercials
• DVD-ROM link to exclusive content

Due to licensing issues, the Scramble City animated feature is missing its original Japanese-language audio, which is replaced by a commentary track by webmasters of some of the leading Transformers fan websites. Also, for legal reasons, the old toy commercials in the discs have the children's faces blurred out.

The version selling at Costco came with an exclusive bonus disc featuring the original 1984 pilot. The Wal-Mart edition included an iron-on Autobot symbol decal.

Metrodome Distribution released an Ultimate Edition of The Transformers: The Movie DVD in June 2007 in the UK (Region 2).^[13] The extras include many of the extras that were contained on the "Remastered" edition of the film on the first disc, with fan commentary serving as the only addition besides a fan-made Transformers movie trailer. The second disc contains interviews with Peter Cullen and Flint Dille. Despite promises of the only episode of Transformers: Zone,^[14] only "Scramble City" is included. Later in 2007 Metrodome released the movie, in a "bare bones" form on Blu-Ray Disc; the Blu-ray version is only available in the UK, but is free of region coding and thus can be played on Blu-ray players from anywhere.

The film was also released on Universal Media Disc for the PlayStation Portable by Pink Entertainment and Metrodome in the UK. The UK cinema version (4:3 aspect ratio) of the film was used and the disc contains no extra features.

[edit] Comic book adaptations

See also: List of Transformers comic book series

A three-issue miniseries adaptation of the feature film written by Ralph Macchio and drawn by Don Perlin was published by Marvel Comics to market the film, with no continuity ties to the regular comic series. Differences to the animated feature include the original designs for the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and Ultra Magnus' original death at the hand of Scourge and the Sweeps.

Although the cartoon and comic book stories by Marvel were normally kept unrelated,^{[citation needed]} the movie linked the two in the UK comic series, where it is portrayed as the eventual future of the comic's timeline. The direction the comic took afterwards pertaining to the origin of Unicron once again diverged from events depicted in the cartoon: a disruption to the fabric of spacetime caused by actions of Galvatron was explained to have altered the timeline, with the "movie future" becoming an alternate potential chronology for the comics, while a story in the U.S. title saw Unicron attacking Cybertron and being destroyed in the present day.

Corresponding with the animated movie's 20th anniversary DVD release, IDW Publishing, the current Transformers publisher, released a four-issue adaptation of the animated movie entitled Transformers: The Animated Movie. It was written by Bob Budiansky and drawn by Don Figueroa. The trade paperback features three pages of scenes not featured in the movie, including the activities of Omega Supreme and the other Combiner Teams and why they were not present at the battle for Autobot City.

[edit] Soundtracks

Main article: The Transformers The Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

In 1987, the official soundtrack was released in the USA by Scotti Brothers Records (now Volcano Entertainment).

The soundtrack was re-released on May 29, 2007. This version includes all ten tracks from the original soundtrack, plus new bonus material provided by Vince DiCola, who composed and produced the film's score. The bonus material includes three additional score cues and an alternate version of the Transformers Theme.

In 1997, 3H Enterprises released an album titled 'Til All Are One that features the film's score on two CDs. In 2001, 3H also released Lighting Their Darkest Hour, featuring the instrumental score; The Protoform Sessions, featuring early demos, outtakes, and alternate themes linked with narration by Dicola; and Artistic Transformations, featuring ten instrumental themes from the movie interpreted for solo piano.

Inter-series references

In the first live action Transformers film, Optimus Prime says to Megatron, "...one shall stand, one shall fall," in a homage to their confrontation in the animated film.^[15]

References

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2. ^ "SHOCKWAVE'S POV - OUT HIS WINDOW: Unicron's hand reaches towards the window, squeezes, and the walls crash in. SPACE - UNICRON AND CYBERTRON: Unicron tears off the tower and crushes it as..." http://tfarchive.com/cartoons/info/movie/draft.php
3. ^ Transformers: The Movie (20th Anniversary Special Edition) feature "Death of Optimus Prime".
4. ^ G.I. Joe Interview - Buzz Dixon
5. ^ G.I.JOE - A REAL AMERICAN F.A.Q. at YOJOE.COM
6. ^ Leaming, Barbara. "Orson Wells: A Biography" page 522
7. ^ Swansburg, John., "When Orson Welles Was a Transformer", Slate.com, 2007-07-02, Retrieved on 2007-07-06.
8. ^ Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD official site
9. ^ The Touch Songfacts
10. ^ "The Transformers - The Movie (International Version): Norman Alden, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Susan Blu, Arthur Burghardt, Corey Burton, Roger C. Carmel, Victor Caroli, Regis Cordic, Scatman Crothers, Peter Cullen, BJ Davis, Paul Eiding, Walker Edmiston, Ed Gilbert, Dan Gilvezan, Eric Idle, Buster Jones, Stan Jones (II), Nelson Shin: Video". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Movie-International-Version/dp/B00001U0DX. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
11. ^ "The Transformers: The Movie (1986) - Company credits". Imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092106/companycredits. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
12. ^ The Transformers: The Movie printed text on DVD and accompanying packaging reads: "Distributed exclusively in Canada by Seville Pictures."
13. ^ Email from Metrodome
14. ^ Interview with Jezz Vernon of Metrodome
15. ^ "Transformers (live-action movie)". Anime News Network. 2001-09-11. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5734&page=22. Retrieved 2009-06-24.
16. ^ "UnicronPage". Transformersontheshelf.com. http://www.transformersontheshelf.com/UnicronPage.html. Retrieved 2009-06-24.

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