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But ‘ Transformers: The Movie’ gets something crucially wrong about a cynical ninety minute advert. Yes, ‘Transformers: The Movie’ is designed to make kids stop caring about their 1985 toys and get excited about a whole new range. And old friend we have, of course, never seen before. Prime, when dying, passes the Matrix of Leadership to Ultra Magnus, promising it to his old friend. Here was a likeable children’s cartoon character – albeit a robot – originally meant to be hung, drawn and quartered. It’s so brutal, they legendarily changed lines in ‘GI Joe: The Movie’ (as in Action Force, UK side) to retcon a death in there after audience feedback (ie, wails and tears filling the theatre throughout the entire hour or so after that scene and long after that.) It’s so brutal, you can see the writers and the animators chickening out of Ultra Magnus’s death later in the film before any of that. They also didn’t perish in an epic on-screen fight with literally bits punched out of them, and get stabbed by a lightsaber.

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I mean, you might think the death of Bambi’s mother or Mufasa in ‘The Lion King’ was sad, but you hadn’t loved those characters over two series worth of episodic television first. Optimus Prime’s death in ‘Transformers: The Movie’ (which may well be subtitled More Than Meets The Eye, or may not) is big. ❉ For a big cartoon advert to sell toys, ‘Transformers: The Movie’ gets something crucially wrong – it makes it bloody amazing.

Transformers instruments of destruction scene