The Transformers is an animated movie that depicts the war torn future planet Lithone in the hours of its greatest peril due to the relentless struggle between the good and the bad. The two lines of robots, the Autobots and the Decepticons wage war against each other with each faction having a desire of its own. In fact the movie portrays the Earth by this future planet Lithone, which is under the evil curse of a demonic entity called Unicorn that had sworn to destroy this planet. Unicorn is committed to destroy every entity that falls in its way and transforms the evil Decepticons into its faithful puppets for the ultimate destruction of the heroic Autobots. The Transformers is the story about the self realization of these Autobots under the leadership of Onus Prime urging them to stand united in order to face the danger. The story speaks of the universal brotherhood that is yet to come to this terrorized and war torn world.
Even if you ignore the basic theme of Transformers- the movie, you can still enjoy the stunning performance with high tech computer animation that was quite a major challenge in 1986, the time when the film was released. The overall plot of the story depicted in the cinematic version of this one time television series is really gripping and transcends the audience through a mind blowing into a mechanized world where machines fight the machines for freedom and the right to exist. Written by Ron Friedman and directed by Nelson Shin, the animation presented in The Transformers surpassed the boundaries that were set in most of the contemporary and previous animated productions. The screenplay and cinematography are excellent in this production adding new dimensions to the animation portrayed in the movie version of The Transformers.
The most fascinating thing about The Transformers is the perfect voice casting adding quite a bit of leverage to express the mood of different characters. The voice performances of Norman Alden as Kranix, Jack Angel as Astrotrain, Greg Berger as Grimlock, Susan Blu as Arcee and Arthur Burghardt as Devastator bring the animated characters to life on the silver screen. The Animation in Transformers is so realistically portrayed that it will never make the viewers realize, what they are watching is a fantastic result of an overall technical production. The fantasy depicted in the story fits perfectly well with the reality of the eternal struggle between good and bad.
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The Transformers ran for many nominations and ultimately won the Young Artists Award that was granted to David Medenhall in 1987. The movie was an overall success marking the new age of animation with it's technicality, detailing and parity between fantasy and reality.
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