Honest Trailers | The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

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Honest Trailers | The Transformers: The Movie
Voice Narration: Jon Bailey aka Epic Voice Guy
Title Design: Robert Holtby
Written by: Spencer Gilbert, Danielle Radford, Lon Harris
Produced by: Spencer Gilbert
Edited by: Kevin Williamsen
Post-Production Manager: Emin Bassavand
Content Manager: Mikołaj Kossakowski
Post-Production Specialist: Rebecca Castaneda
Director of Video Production: Max Dionne
#honesttrailers #transformers

[@jasonblalock4429]

2:00 The funny (sad?) thing is how Welles sounds so tired that it actually gives Unicron an odd bit of poignancy. I have no idea if it was deliberate, but I get the sense that Unicron is so old, and has done this so many times, that eating planets is a distasteful chore at this point. He's got a real "vampire who's lived too long" vibe going.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

In a interview done before he died he said he enjoyed doing animation voice work even if he didn't understand the script fully. The tiredness is more from his illness during recording he basically recorded this role on his death bed. The actor who originally was ashamed of being in the film was Nemoy who like with Spock changed his mind and returned to play Sentinel Prime in the live action movies before he died.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

It was definitely not deliberate and all due to his illness. I remember an interview years ago they were worried when he showed up for the recording session wheezing like that and didn't think it would work and they would need to recast the role. Gave it a pass through the synthesizer and found it worked surprisingly well.

[@Thomas-VA]

agreed

[@ragsy887]

Lorewise, Unicron has destroyed an unknowable number of other dimensions, so yes he has been at this for a very long time

[@godconvoy]

Hot take: It was probably his best performance. 👌

[@claytonrios1]

This movie has the touch and the power!

[@xaviermaster1]

Lets all just touch each other

[@ViableGibbon]

​@@xaviermaster1 😂😂

And, the soundtrack!

[@godzy323]

It dares to both believe and be stupid

[@TheVincentKyle]

YEAAAAH! :: riff ::

[@Aurich88]

Orson Welles moments before death played the hell out of Unicron. That "I got out of bed for this?" energy is actually perfect for a malevolent sentient planet.

[@elijahhayter3026]

I… yeah I can’t argue that. unicron is basically robot Cthulhu, by this point.

[@Unbreakable1986]

Agreed, the qualities of lazy omnipotent contempt absolutely made the performance iconic, and the work Nelson Shin had the sound techs do to make him sound powerful perfected it

[@davideberhartii6028]

@@Unbreakable1986 Compared to how much work Lenard Nimoy put into Galvatron its such a difference. Perfect from both actors though.

[@thehermitman822]

It's a big problem today with all characters needing to "care" in someway when "just wanting to watch the world burn" or "because I'm hangry" are plenty good motives for the omnipotent.

[@AndrewThoesen]

“No one summons Megatron” “Well then it pleases me to be the first” Absolute stone cold.

[@davideberhartii6028]

Saw this first run opening night; when Prime died the movie theatre erupted into chaos. Kids crying parents screaming. The lights came on the movie stopped, free snacks and drinks made the rounds until things calmed down and then we continued. After that every showing at my movie theatre had a parent warning. Such a wild ride!

[@sportsnet1997]

I'm still amazed that nobody who made the movie was like: "You want us to murder EVERYONE???"

[@TheCanadiangirl4]

@@sportsnet1997 I'm still not over the death of Prowl.

[@SnoopyReads]

Sure dipshit

[@commandercaptain4664]

@@sportsnet1997 Hasbro: B-b-but new toys!

[@commandercaptain4664]

You'd think it would've been rated PG-13 with all that carnage.

[@MrChallacombe]

I was traumatised by seeing all my faves killed off at start. But watching Hot Rod open the matrix always gives me goosebumps. Classic

[@dashripkin]

Accompanied by the voice of Optimus saying, "Arise, Rodimus Prime." That sold it.

[@xenophon1999]

Yeah then picking up Galvatron like he was a petulant child and yeeting him through the side of Unicron, absolute, sold gold epic scene.

[@Chris-yz7cs]

Everybody loves " The Touch" , but dont sleep on "Dare".Its intro guitar solo is awesome

[@RichWards-Wins]

Hero rock at it's finest!

[@AlunBridges]

The first instance of "the Touch" epic voice guy mentions is actually "Dare" :/

[@michaelandreipalon359]

You should see Dragon Ball Z Abridged's Bardock special take on it. It's priceless!

[@rustyATV]

Arguably the better of the two songs.

[@Penfold101]

I dunno, Spectre General’s Hunger is an awesome track to smash Sharkticons to…

[@danielmedela8725]

Almost 40 years later, still the best Transformers movie. Which is sad, really.

[@Nihzlet]

Oh yeah, and it’s not even close.

[@rokeYouuer]

One of the few times where people are right and the original actually is the best, although the competition is five films created by Michael Bay, and the so paint-by-the-numbers Bumblebee, that I swear the script was AI generated.

[@Nihzlet]

@@rokeYouuer I am not expecting Rise of the Beasts to be good either, especially when I could just… watch the original Beast Wars, which still holds up very well.

[@IMosuGoji]

@@Nihzlet it’s a little bit close to be honest

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Nothing can beat Beast Wars quite easily, that's for sure, though Animated's also good, even if it should have gotten a fourth season.

[@MarcusRandolph]

I almost choked to death on "We have Optimus Prime at home" 🤣

[@GrandInfernoElite]

I lost it at "part mega-maid"

[@elgorithum]

I don't understand this punchline 😅

[@akatsukigajou1639]

​@@elgorithum ha n00b

[@craigbold5319]

So true

[@darkneon5637]

True

[@joshwagner8954]

The Optimus Prime You Got the Touch scene is still one of the most epic moments in movie history.

[@ThatGuy-zt6po]

They sent him out right. Other than Brawn, Prowl, Ironhide, Ratchet, Ironhide again, Wheeljack, windcharger, and even Starscream. The whole theater was dead quiet during those scenes like what the hell I just got that character for my birthday man. 😮😳🥺😭

[@nmathew01]

You're godsdamned right it is. "Megatron must be stopped no matter the cost" and then just straight showing why every Autobot was in awe of him.

[@Ironsocks12]

Still to this day at 42 years old that scene gives me goosebumps and a chill down my spine.

[@mrzack888]

you mean rodimus prime matrix scene?

[@mohammedbaba-gana3028]

​@@ThatGuy-zt6po❤

[@slyngn7847]

Even though Orson Welles didn't care for the role, him voicing Unicron is still the coolest villain voice that could be heard. Just like how Kevin Conroy's voice embodies Batman, Orson Welles' voice embodies Unicron.

[@morph261]

"Proceed, your way to oblivion"

[@007Thanos007]

"........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMMMMMegatronnn..........."

[@slyngn7847]

@@007Thanos007 Megatron: "Nobody summons Megatron!" Unicron: *_"T H E N I T P L E A S E S M E T O B E T H E F I R S T."_*

[@commandercaptain4664]

@@007Thanos007 Optimus screaming that in the pilot episode still gives me chills. Cullen sold that line to its core.

[@MrBowza]

Leonard nemoy voice great for galvatron

[@marclewis5505]

I'm so glad they did a honest trailer on my favorite childhood movie. Also Jon Bailey does a hell of a good Optimus Prime voice.

[@jasonblalock4429]

You know Jon is the official backup Optimus now, right? He's doing the voice for video games and things like that, when Peter Cullen isn't available. I expect he'll take over the role completely whenever Cullen retires.

[@RooftopKorean917]

@@jasonblalock4429 let’s hope

[@TheRealMeaney]

Bailey should add a Peter Cullen option to his Descript Overdub voice portfolio.

[@georgebravo6688]

I still remember watching this in theaters

[@georgebravo6688]

@@jasonblalock4429 They need to do what Disney/LucasFilm did with James Earl Jones and Paramount did with Majel Rodenberry's voice.

[@harryjones6594]

“Beyond good, beyond evil, beyond your wildest imagination.” That tagline may be corny, but I love it. And the poster with the autobots shooting into the sky was great.

[@Oturan20]

I wish more movies had corny taglines like that. I might actually bother seeing them on the big screen if they did.

[@thehermitman822]

Go PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@AndrewThoesen]

This movie is so 80s it hurts

[@commandercaptain4664]

@@AndrewThoesen Hurts so good. C'MON BABY make me hurt so good! Just like love does feel like it should, you make it... HURT SO GOOD.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

I was a kid when this came out on VHS. I remember being shocked by the level of violence and the language in the movie. The original cartoon was pretty mild. The movie was pretty savage. Everyone that I cared about was dead by the end of the movie.

[@sopcannon]

so game of thrones like for you

[@elijahhayter3026]

And then there was unicorn’s stomach. I almost got nightmares from those screams.

[@almostontimehero5415]

F

[@noppornwongrassamee8941]

I guess you didn't like Bumblebee and Spike then...

[@toddjones1480]

I was way into Transformers when this movie came out, and I didn't even know that it existed until 1997 or 1998.

[@andrewmier6615]

Almost 40 years later, still the best Transformers movie ever

[@svenjansen2134]

Only Transformers movie because it was always a cartoon.

[@piercegalactic]

Hear hear

[@jasontotten3976]

I was like nine when this came out. I remember absolutely driving my mom and the video rental store clerks nuts trying to get a hold of a copy. Back in those days, the wait between theater and video release was like 6 mos to a year, if memory serves. When I did manage to get it, I literally jumped out of the car when we got home and ran inside the house to put it in the VCR. Coolest thing I had ever seen up until that point. Of course, I lost it when Optimus was killed. . . yeah, my mom said that was one of those moments she knew I was a total dweeb.

[@j.p.1214]

i feel this

[@sammich44]

Out of the dozen or so video stores in my town, there was *one* store that had *one* copy of this movie. Every time we walked in there, I beelined for it, only to find it had been rented out. There was no reserve option at this store, so it was months before I happened to arrive at the right time, and my eyes were greeted by the miracle of an available VHS tape behind the display cover. I almost couldn't believe it was finally happening. Everyone who lived through the time of video stores knows that feeling, and this was the apotheosis for me. The struggle was so long, and the disappointments so numerous.

[@mysocalledknife07]

I remember the days of the mom & pop video stores. Brue Video in Point Pleasant, NJ.

[@mage1439]

@@mysocalledknife07 Something similar here, except it wasn't even mom and pop video stores, it was local stores that sold gas, groceries, hot food, and VHS and Nintendo games. Also, despite it being in rural Virginia, it had an adult movie section. 🤣

[@queeffairy]

Felt this way everytime I went for a new guyver.

[@grandpasretrovideogames]

My parents simply refused to let me rent it.😢

[@matthewerwin4677]

The dark ages.

[@motherplayer]

I can think of worse ways to retire a toy line to make way for a new one, but at least it has the effect of forever scarring so many kids for life, that they never forgot the franchise.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

I grew up reading animorphs. It's hard to beat being mentally scarred and traumatized at 10 years old from that series. Applegate wrote a whole lot of horrific war crimes...committed by children...in her series, and she was good at it.

[@Jerga27]

Oh God I'm rereading Animorphs.. can not believe these books were just sitting in the elementary school library. Should've come with a warning: May get second-hand PTSD and existential crisis

[@Deuteromis]

Someone just posted this exact comment word for word...😶

[@motherplayer]

@@Deuteromis I know, that always happens to an earlier one. It's....errie, to say the least.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

@jamesanderson8775 there's a lot more dismemberment than I expected from a series about kids who can transform into animals. A lot.

[@AAX1975]

This...just shows how legendary this movie is. Probably one of my favorite movies ever. Peter Cullen is timeless!

[@sopcannon]

still the best transformers movie.

[@CloudStudiosPhoto]

The “oh sh*t what’re we gonna do now “ scene always gets me 😂

[@commandercaptain4664]

The 80s: *PG rating was the death knell for animated movies* Transformers the Movie: Hold my Black Cauldron...

[@JeffreyPiatt]

Ironically they deliberately had that one curse inserted to get PG and ensure more screening times at theaters. Most multiplexes in the 80's would stop showing G films in the evening to swap in adult movies

[@Osprey850]

@@JeffreyPiatt It's funny that it would've received a G rating without that one swear. There's so much fighting and dying in the movie. That would never be G today.

[@jimnfl7134]

Badmou8th the movie, but the Touch: I will FIGHT anyone who hates or doesn't enjoy it!!

[@Hypercannon77]

They did that to loose the g rating

[@adamthorntonillustration9281]

My father died when I was nine years old. At the time, I was really into the Transformers toys and cartoons. I guess I didn't realise that Optimus kinda became a surrogate father. Peter Cullen's voice was a perfect combination of strong yet caring. Then two years later this film came out and I went to see it at the cinema. I cried quietly in my seat, not wanting my friend sitting next to me to see. I knew I had until the end of the film for my swollen eyes to calm down. Utterly traumatic. Will never forget.

[@MrAnim8orVideos]

Damn, man. Sorry to hear that

[@lordfrostwind3151]

The Touch is fantastic, but Instruments of Destruction is an absolute gem, especially if it always makes you remember your toys being mercilessly gunned down by by your brother's toys.

[@Jhertzog83]

For me it was Dare. So much synth-pop energy.

[@jeanvonestling7408]

I loved the Transformers Theme by Lion. One of the hard-rock/metal songs that I liked before I learned I lik hard rock and metal.

[@robertmcginty4146]

I still have Dare on my run playlist.

[@AndrewThoesen]

This entire soundtrack is golden. But for the “obscure” hit, Nothings Gonna Stand in Our Way is my favorite. That guitar solo SHREDS.

[@ironmaster6496]

it's hard to coohse man, Dare, Instruments, Hunger, THE FREAKING TOUCH, they are all bangers , and that's witohut mentioning the Vince Dicola tracks like the Autobot city battle

[@Bluestar1079]

This is my all-time favorite movie. I rented the VHS tape, bought the VHS tape, and now I have the anniversary Blu-ray. Along with the soundtrack on my playlist right now. I literally know every line by heart.

[@Starsaber222]

The soundtrack being "The Touch" on repeat for 2 hours?

[@maxmirkin7238]

@@Starsaber222 A LOT of White Lion. 🤦

[@jamaldowner]

You and I are now brothers

[@Bluestar1079]

@@Starsaber222 remember that hunting music when Unicron first appeared at the opening. Dare. When hot rod and Daniel went up to the mountain. The death of Optimus prime music. The coordination of starscream. Nothing's gonna stand in our way, when hot rod fought off the squid. Hunger. When him and kup fought off the sharkticons, and the dinobots triumphantly saved the day. And yes the touch. Man you got me hyped thinking about this. I'm going to watch the movie tonight after work.

[@Starsaber222]

@@Bluestar1079 I was just being a smartass.

[@jamesdalton807]

Say what you like about this film, but Prime giving the Dinobots the order to destroy Devastator is a core memory

[@timothybrown5999]

“Me Grimlock kick butt!”

[@supernerd8067]

"Me Grimlock love challenge!"

[@Clarence_Oddbody]

All we wanted from Bay was one Me, Grimlock, but he was such a c unt there was no way…

[@chaospoet]

Same.

[@Wolf_3125]

​@@Clarence_Oddbody Because he's a dingus

[@Knyte77]

"The Touch" was only played twice. That first scene featuring Hot Rod and Daniel featured "Dare," which was also played twice. Outside of that, this was on point!

[@pinkspider28]

Glad I'm not the only one who spotted this. Lol. What a fail lol

[@MattBurrill]

I caught that, too.

[@ZachDotsey]

I remember watching this when I was 8 or 9 years old. My first shock was that all these classic Autobots got gunned down like it was nothing almost first thing (including the first one I ever owned, Cliffjumper). And then Optimus Prime said, "Damn you, Megatron!" And I was like, "Optimus Prime cussed?!?!?!?" And then he got killed. And then Megatron died. And then Starscream finally got his. Man, this movie was brutal. And I loved it.

[@jmurray1110]

And then dark awakening aired

[@piercegalactic]

That’s basically how it was for me.

[@lostgallifreyan6436]

You do the Optimus voice so well. Almost too well! The one thing I always hated about this movie was that they couldn't save Optimus when he had a single hole in his chest, but when Ultra Magnus gets blown to literal pieces, the Junkions just glue him back together and he's fine.

[@vinsanity40k]

well honest trailers guy was the optimus voice for the netflix transformers series so...

[@lostgallifreyan6436]

@@vinsanity40k I've not watched that series, I don't have Netflix. It may be worth it for Optimus, though!

[@vinsanity40k]

@@lostgallifreyan6436 tbh, the animation was great and the story was interesting. but it was pretty dark and depressing. joyless even. like transformers but if it was in the dc universe.

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

Plus some of the voice cast choice...is questionable *Cough* BW Megatron *Cough*

[@Phyrefly6]

I remember thinking that they would do the same for Optimus but nope. :(

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

This film was my childhood for a long time. I was absolutely obsessed with it... And the toys too of course. Still the best Transformers film by a mile.

[@SpontaneousAndStructured]

Truth!

[@roberthall7117]

Amen, Truth be told 🙂👍

[@paulmdevenney]

Peter Cullen called, he wants his voice back. You absolutely killed me with "The assassination of Optimus Prime by the Coward Hasbro". I'm also pretty certain this film is why I'm into hair metal even though I slightly missed that generation.

[@gregorymoore2877]

Hasbro was pretty brave with this movie. If they became cowardly, it was when they decided to put Duke into a coma instead of killing him too.

[@ThatGuy-zt6po]

That and Rocky IV 🎸

[@goldenltd1970]

​@gregorymoore2877 and know they kill him every time, like a bad running gag. The last time they dared something was Beast Wars/Machines

[@korbendallas8488]

That alternate title is one of their best and had my practically crying with laughter

[@GDFishDABishIscool-dr1fg]

The Coward Hasbro, it’s trademarked guys acording to this guy…

[@BrooklynBluejay]

Just a correction: the movie uses "The Touch" only two times, not three. In the scene referenced at 2:30 the music isn't "The Touch" but "Dare," also sung by Stan Bush (with orchestration by Vince DiCola). It does sound similar so the confusion is understandable. Great video!

[@lucasroebuck692]

Truth!

[@casbyness]

I was looking for this comment so I wouldn't have to write it myself. :D Of course, real fans know there is indeed a third canon use of the song, i.e. the end of the third season episode "The Return of Optimus Prime". Optimus uses the matrix to cure the 'hate plague' ravaging the known universe (something Earth seems to be suffering from IRL, over the past decade).

[@GTMQ8]

Yup I just caught that too and wanted to see if someone else caught it. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@Koriian]

I already commented but you did a much better job than me. Well done

[@dashripkin]

And, IMO, "Dare" is better than "The Touch." With lyrics like "Dare! Dare is a place where dreams survive," you can't go wrong.

[@blee45]

I'm 24 and this movie is honestly one of the first memories I can remember. It'll always have a place in my heart.

[@bn-tc2tk]

25 here. This, a bunch of the Power Ranger movies, Batman Beyond Movie, and DBZ Return of Cooler are special to me too

[@Notarobot562]

41. This movie was more crushing than that scene in neverending story.

[@scifiknut]

50 here (yup!). I was 12 when Transformers arrived on the scene and 13 when the animated movie came out. So my appreciation was never through playing with the toys, but I loved the animated show, the animated movie and the comics (part of my learning of the English language). Perhaps unsurprisingly I started collecting the toys too and *still* hasn't sold them. It's in the pipeline, though. Better do it while it's still possible to get money for them in this inflation-riddled world.

[@GOYOSAMSA02]

4:12 There was a group of female Autobots that already made an appearance in one of the Transformers season 2 episodes. They were a small group of brave defenders of Cybertron and they were even romantic partners with some of the male Autobots, like Elita One and Optimus Prime. For the movie and the season that followed it, the list of fembots was reduced only to Arcee, which is a mystery that can be added to the long list of inconsistencies of our beloved original cartoon.

[@Penfold101]

The movie script was written before a lot of season two was finalised - hence Devastator was the only combiner team in it. It should have had Metroplex, Trypticon, Superion, Menasor…

[@morganmoroney4242]

​@@Penfold101the comic retcons the location of the other combiners and Omega Supreme

[@fasinfata]

@@Penfold101 But Metroplex was in the movie! He's the core part of Autobot City

[@APlatypus]

Only thanks to season 3 stating that (referring to GerE’s comment)

[@nicholasolson7032]

Everyone always forgets about Elita One!

[@gusdavid7798]

That boombox reference hit too close to home. I recently bought a Soundwave, transformed it into the radio and my kid asked what it was

[@rfdsdf1]

Omg I could almost hear the conversation..."What's that?" "It's a Walkman, it plays cassettes." "what's a cassette?" Omg brother we are old!

[@soundwave591]

@@rfdsdf1 Macross shows that age too lol. I think we had the same childhood

[@albertkim7882]

😂

[@commandercaptain4664]

Soundwave is my boy!

[@cinquerobinsoncomposerfilm774]

@@commandercaptain4664 Ravage, eject!

[@cwhiting]

I cried when prime died. 40 years later I'm still hurt.

[@alexandercarter9598]

I was working, and a kid working with us put children's songs on the radio. The theme from this movie came on, and I kindly informed that child: "don't skip that if you value your life."

[@Tulf42]

"One shall stand. One shall fall." - Optimus Prime

[@gignock]

“Why throw your life away so recklessly?”

[@sbs3000]

@@gignock "That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron."

[@marclewis5505]

"No! I'll crush you with my bare hands!"

[@choofuyen358]

“I gotta help Prime!”

[@matthewjohnson6886]

The strange thing is that this is actually the best transformers movie ever made. I love that my grandad kept letting me watch it on repeat once I finish my work in the back garden. Thank you honest trailers 👏👍

[@martl8615]

I don't know, Bumblebee is a great movie, and it makes a lot more sense than '84. Yes, '84 has nostalgia, great original music, all the OG guys duking it out in fantastic animation and all. But most stuff after Starscream kicks the bucket up to Unicron's transformation is really high on filler.

[@martl8615]

@@SabrinaLey-of6lr I usually call it '84 because what happens to most of the '84 cast. :P

[@Depth217]

Remember that the trauma of children who witnessed Optimus’s death was so bad that they rewrote the GI Joe movie at the last second to say Duke was in a coma and would recover instead of dying outright

[@TheVincentKyle]

I was shocked they even showed blood, but at the same time my child brain also said "hey look, somebody finally hit something!"

[@metaloverlord7465]

​@@TheVincentKyle Apparently in the Joeverse you have more accuracy throwing a snake than you do aiming a gun.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

It is to bad that Transformers came out first. Killing Duke would have worked better and it would have been easy to rework Transformers to spare Prime by giving him a makeover and new accessory.

[@Ambaryerno]

The irony is the Joes died left and right in the comics themselves.

[@Mububban23]

I grew up in the 80s, traumatising children was just par for the course! If you wanted to watch the best most interesting movies, you just had to accept that trauma and nightmares came along with it. It was….interesting.

[@Shantari]

Two small corrections: - "Dare" is a completely different, but also awesome, song from "The Touch". While "The Touch" acknowledges a master, "Dare" inspires an up-and-comer. - Orson Welles was actually relatively happy about voicing a cartoon because he found the animation medium fascinating. It was probably more fun than the commercials he worked on.

[@-_E-_]

i don't care how 80s it is, seeing boom box bots send their cassette tape armies to fight each other is rad asf

[@mattz459]

I gotta hand it to you Epic Voice Guy, you’re not the Peter Cullen we wanted but you’re the Peter Cullen we deserve.

[@spacewarpphotography1667]

I wonder if they tried to get the Peter Cullen we wanted?

[@sopcannon]

He sounds close enough to replace Peter if they ever needed too. PC 4 ever.

[@austintrousdale2397]

“By the power of Grayskull, *I* have the POW-WURRR!” is my second favorite quote of Optimus Prime. 🙃

[@ronsparkman4913]

Quick note here, folks. He has, indeed, done Optimus professionally. Check out Jon Bailey's Transformers work.

[@jeddpires]

​@@ronsparkman4913 he was also the stand in voice actor for Peter Cullen in Bumblebee IIRC, but actually made it to the movie voicing shockwave

[@ExtremeEgg80]

I don't care what anyone says, this is the greatest movie of all time! I still watch it regularly

[@BLSfan2000]

Same here. I own it on DVD and digital.

[@leonbeverly7020]

Y.G.D.R👍

[@samiulbariavick9520]

Same here

[@RichWards-Wins]

Dude...we just became best friends...

[@chigawop]

"Predator" handshake!

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

One movie shall stand where many other movies in the same franchise shall fall. And this is a cartoon movie from the 80's.

[@franckateba2970]

I'm 36 right now, and I can assure you this movie shocked me when I was a kid. It was so good and well animated. It wasn't well received at that time because it was meant for kid show but the killing here was really sad

[@zikadaprime]

Did they say they're an expert?

[@WhatDoesEvilMean]

I don’t think anyone who wasn’t a kid when this came out will ever truly understand the trauma sitting in that theater. It was amazing. Haha

[@FuzzyStripetail]

The touchiest thing about Stan Bush's "The Touch" was that it didn't beat around the Stan Bush when it concerned the multiple times it was repeatedly used in the 1986 The Transformers: The Movie.

[@Fenris30]

It's only used Twice the First clip was from Dare which IMO goes harder then The Touch. But hey never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

[@WynterPhenix]

@@Fenris30 Truth! Whenever the soundtrack is playing in my car and Dare comes on, my foot gets a bit heavier.

[@justinoswald8825]

The last joke about the movie is almost always a winner but you hit a new high with this one.

[@gewhiz1494]

The assassination of optimus prime…legendary

[@medafan53]

Often when I watch Honest Trailers for stuff I like I see issues I have with the trailer that compels me to defend the original product, but honestly the only complaint I have with the trailer is that in fact "The Touch" is played twice, not three times, in the film the scene near the start with Daniel on a hoverboard is in fact set to "Dare" also by Stan Bush.

[@DoctorPretorious616]

Damn! I was just about to type that nitpick about "Dare".

[@JasonNichols75]

Glad someone else caught that besides me!

[@morganmoroney4242]

That's why I came to this comment ts section 😆

[@commielnino]

Dare is the missing verse from "The Touch". You're welcome.

[@ufnavy06]

I think that's the joke honestly.

[@nuraqilasidek-qk7zp]

This actually introduced me to Transformers and nothing feels the same after watching it, even the original series can't top it

[@Belizle86]

I've owned this movie on Betamax, VHS, DVD, and now have it downloaded. I've seen this movie so many times I not only can recite the ENTIRE movie word for word, one of my horcruxes is an action figure of Wheelie. 😂

[@PhoenixNorthstar]

Love the Orson Welles call out, but can we acknowledge that Leonard Nimoy and Weird Al Yankovic also voiced major characters in this movie? Weird Al even rerecorded a song from his first album for it (Dare to be Stupid).

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Weird Al didn't voice any characters in the movie. Decades later he voiced the character that Eric Idle voices in this movie, though.

[@ironmaster6496]

@@KasumiKenshirou yeah a lot of people always assume that he was always Wreck gar thanks to animated

[@Drakeo83]

FINALLY!!! THE GREATEST TRANSFORMERS MOVIE EVER GETS AN HONEST TRAILER!!!!!!!!!

[@JB-yr6qt]

To this day, still the best Transformers movie. Also the first time I cried at the theatre.

[@toddtastes9855]

Yea, that Optimus death hit hard!!!

[@joboy77]

When Optimus died, I too shed tears.

[@007Thanos007]

The second time for me. The first time was Spock dying in "Wrath of Khan."

[@rowenarrow]

One of my most ingrained memories was seeing this in theater with my father and when Prime died all the father's and sons were crying. I remember crying and not feeling alone because others were and my dad was trying to hold the tears back, lol.

[@paulkerr7320]

I was terrified you were going to pan this movie, but you spared my aching heart. My only gripes are you forgot to mention Leonard Nimoy's Galvatron and the fact that Spectre General (Who were actually Kick Axe but the studio renamed them on the soundtrack album without their consent) did some absolutely amazing tracks on this album!

[@ianbench1251]

"Silence, or you'll be held in contempt of this court!" "I have nothing BUT contempt for this court!" I still haven't seen this movie, but I think it's amazing that it produced some surprisingly EPIC quotes.

[@wadewilson5712]

its way better than the bay transformers movies

[@ahr1man]

Watch it already!

[@randominternetguy8735]

"We can't hold them forever, Kup. But what we can do is give them one humongous repair bill!"

[@Michael-bk5nz]

One shall stand, one shall fall!

[@Nick_Nightingale]

It’s on KZbin, bud.

[@Technotron-ec6ty]

I didn't skip Bumblebee! I saw it in theaters, bought the Blu-ray, and I freaking loved it!

[@bangslamwham88]

I didn't like that movie.

[@jeuryrabassa4724]

To be honest, I prefer to watch a Optimus Prime movie instead. Cause he has always been my favorite Transformer.

[@matthewjarek3026]

No matter how old you get, Optimus Prime's death will always make you cry.

[@GrandmasterDevo]

It's the music that does it. Tell me that reverberating note at the end of the scene doesn't send chills down your spine!

[@darkneon5637]

Yeah I guess

[@darthkobe73]

It was Hot Rods fault🥺

[@mage1439]

@@darthkobe73 Sure was, the big dork.

[@jaybone2321]

The first time sure, maybe even the second. By the eigth one though, we all know he's coming back.

[@usafa2000]

I watched this movie over 300 times since 1986. It just never got old. "You have to see it twice to take it all in!" What's really really crazy is I'm STILL finding things in that movie I'd never noticed before. Like there being TWO Rumbles when they go to attack Blaster.

[@gregorymoore2877]

Two Rumbles? Or One Rumble and one Frenzy? (I think Frenzy was the other humanoid Decepticon cassette from the toy line.)

[@commandercaptain4664]

@@gregorymoore2877 Definitely Frenzy.

[@usafa2000]

@@gregorymoore2877 It's an animation error. They're both painted red in the shot.

[@orinanime]

I love this soundtrack. Every song is perfect. I absolutely love 'The Touch'. And though it may be blasphemous... I think 'Dare' is the best song in this movie.

[@deetjay]

Yep! I was one of the 80 or so people that saw this when it was first released in theaters (judging by the box office numbers). I was six and loved every second of it. But Prime's death was traumatizing.

[@BLSfan2000]

Yes it was. I was 4 at the time of release. Didn't see it in theaters but we had the VHS tape.

[@sbs3000]

I saw it in theaters too. Yeah, it was very traumatizing. I think even my mom cried a little when Optimus died.

[@mjmullady]

I was 9 and there in the theater being traumatized and my parents so confused, love this film!

[@doro626]

My father was laughing and said" Are you crying"? I was was like NO. But I was. He went to another movie and I was able to mourn in peace.

[@BLSfan2000]

@@doro626 That's kind of funny. Optimus Prime dying was depressing to us kids back then. Movies didn't hide that stuff back then. That did alter the GI Joe animated movie.

[@Aldrnari956]

In all seriousness, that’s a great Peter Cullen impression.

[@HVBRSoF]

The Touch is honestly such a great song. When Hot Rod pulls open the all spark and the song starts vibing, I got chills all over me. The single greatest scene in this movie is Hot Rod transforming into Rodimus Prime while The Touch is blaring in the background.

[@jaylawson8122]

*matrix of leadership, not all spark But you knew that, right?

[@HVBRSoF]

@@jaylawson8122 honestly, no. it's been years ago and i was a kid when i watched this.

[@roblovingfoss]

*Matrix Of Leadership

[@Mububban23]

@@jaylawson8122 you are giving off very strong “comic book guy” vibes from the Simpsons…

[@The_Praetorian]

That's Matrix of Leadership, the plot device that ALMOST murdered Ultra Magnus (so close, and yet so far).

[@E-1K]

My dad took me to see this in theaters. Optimus Prime dying did actually make me cry, although I was quite embarrassed by it. My dad made me walk home. My family moved to another town before I finally got there. I'm still homeless.

[@giantfightingroboto]

Can't believe you did Dare dirty like this. The Touch doesn't play when Hot Rod and Daniel are driving!

[@matthewsmith2673]

The Game of Thrones comparison made me chuckle, because I remember thinking how brutal the Megatron line “I’ll tear out your optics” was for a kids movie

[@mysocalledknife07]

Saw this film on opening night, five days after my 9th birthday. I couldn't believe they killed off all of my favorite characters. Sat there in shock with my dad and my 2 younger brothers. Still think it's a classic (from the year that defined the 80's: 1986), And, looking back, the most important thing is that it confirmed the origins of my love for heavy metal that still resides in me today. That Spectre General tune "Nothing's Gonna Stand in Our Way" was baddass, and fit perfectly in that underwater scene with Hotrod and Kup. RIP G1 and G2 .... we missed you, eternally, from this point forward, and effectively ended my interest in the toys by January 1987.

[@jacobshore5115]

I love this movie so much! It’s such a big part of my childhood! I love everything about it!

[@darkneon5637]

Let me guess it was traumatizing for you

[@jacobshore5115]

@@darkneon5637 I mean, it should have, but I don’t know that it did.

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

THAT. WAS. 80'S. AWESOME. I'm gonna get out my old cassette tape of the Transformers soundtrack, wait fifteen minutes for it to rewind to "Instruments If Destruction", Transform And Rock Out!

[@TheCosmicFool]

I saw this in the cinema when I was 4/5 years old and Optimus’ death was really upsetting! Apparently so many patents in the US wrote letters to Hasbro to complain that they had to add a voice over to the end of the film before it was released worldwide, which says ‘the greatest Autobot of them all, Optimus Prime, will return’. You can see the differences in the Blu ray release which has the US cut and the European cut. Also, minor point: The Touch is only played twice in the film: during Prime’s fight with Megatron and during Rodimus Prime’s fight with Galvatron. During Hot Rod’s first scene with Daniel it is the equally great and cheesy ‘Dare’ also by Stan Bush.

[@Cannonboy369]

That was a great Prime voice, man. You should do the next cartoon voice!

[@TheVincentKyle]

This was the first movie I ever saw in a theatre and the callous murder of my childhood favorites scarred me for years - that being said, this movie effing ruled.

[@TheVincentKyle]

Also this was easily one of the best HT's ever.

[@earlsmith7428]

That was back when you cared about the characters in a movie.

[@TheVincentKyle]

@@earlsmith7428 By...killing most of them?

[@earlsmith7428]

@@TheVincentKyle Well. . . . Yes. . . .. Killing them got me to care for them. . . . It might be true for a great many tv and film characters. I didn't care for a great many characters until they died.

[@TheVincentKyle]

Oh, uh....spoilers? 🤣

[@ericmonacelli42]

Perfect. This movie along with TMNT was my childhood. Y'all nailed it.

[@sandal_thong8631]

Guess it's time to revisit both when _TMNT Mutant Mayhem_ shows up in August.

[@mervstash3692]

Don't give them ideas for more nostalgia to butcher

[@Ugnutz]

i had teh first Turtles movie on VHS i watched it every day after school for like a month until i wore it out

[@larrywalsh9939]

I once tried to watch one of the Michael Bay transformers movies. I was impressed that I managed to get almost halfway through before I shut it off, I feel that really shows my fortitude is stronger than I had anticipated. Honest Trailers really summed it up well - "2 hours of throwing electronics into a woodchipper".

[@ThatGuy-zt6po]

Not my Prime or Megatron, or anybody for that matter.😂

[@compman34]

I spent the first 15min of the first Bayformer movie going, "wrong" "wrong" wrong!"

[@ThatGuy-zt6po]

@@compman34 😂😂😂

[@goldenheartOh]

Yeah, I couldn't follow any of the battles because in a flash they all look like each other. Just a bunch of walking piles of random parts.

[@optimascrime5235]

I'm glad the Bumblebee got at least a mention😅

[@N7gamer1337]

“10 percent robots fighting” literally sums up Michael Bay’s entire transformers saga.

[@YodaMan-420]

this movie was one that created what/who i am today. add in star wars and highlander. i still listen to The Touch. its in my daily playlist. watched the movie so much my dad started calling me Hot Rod.

[@RichWards-Wins]

I one hundred percent endorse this message.

[@CoopDeezer]

The opening theme, Unicron's voice, and Galvatron were the coolest things to ever happen to my younger self

[@WombatMan64]

Unicron had the best lines. "I have summoned you here for a purpose" "Nobody summons Megatron!" "Then it pleases me to be the first"

[@emergencydrummer]

I've watched Honest Trailers for years and this is literally the first time I've ever rewatched one, immediately! The trailer for Transformers The Movie blew my little middle school mind back in 1986. I could not wait to go see it. When I saved up and bought a VHS of it from Toy-R-Us, I completely wore it out rewatching it countless times. It seemed crazy to me that this movie had not been done yet by Screen Junkies, but here we are. And, I got caught almost every reference made. It was the actor's credits/renames that threw me a couple times... Oh, can you say, "Turbo-revvin' young punk... I'll straighten you out yet!" Even if it's in your normal Honest Trailer voice on another non-transformer-related video. Thanks! I've also never requested you say anything in all the years I've been watching/subscribed. PS: I'm actually subscribed on my personal channel (Forrest Young), not this one. Hope that still counts!

[@popeofsimps2924]

2:15 never have I heard anything more accurate about this soundtrack

[@dontran1887]

I still laugh about how I finally was able to watch it for the first time almost fifteen years late. My family rarely went to movie theaters, so young me was confused when the new season happened and most of the familiar Transformers were suddenly missing. Eventually we rented the VHS but somebody taped over it and there was only video store in town so I was SOL. Naturally my interest quickly faded. Fast forward to college and I discover eBay. One night I looked up if any of my old toys were worth anything and to my delight Fortress Maximus was fetching a nice sum (and still does to this day). I brought it back with me and had it in my dorm. My roommate had a buddy visiting who spotted it and we started talking about Transformers. I mentioned how I never did get to watch the 1986 movie and he proceeded to pull the VHS out of his backpack. I was excited to finally watch it and equally a little creeped out that this guy traveled with a copy of Transformers: The Movie. Also obligatory shout out to the Cybertronic Spree. They put on a great concert that's definitely worth checking out.

[@Awwscrewit]

The Touch was only used twice. The first scene you used was Dare.

[@ShootingStar1313]

1:13 The most traumatizing thing you could ever say to a child. 😨

[@leslienordman8718]

Wow, that went by so fast that I didn't even have time to last a the last joke before the next one came. The best was the title, "The Assassination of Optimus Prime by the Coward Hasbro". Great job!

[@nostalgicwiz3977]

You did it. The honest trailer to my favorite animated movie of all time. Let's go

[@RichWards-Wins]

Amen!

[@Masteroftheweb]

Favorite movie of all time, right here. No need to pigeon golf it to "animated"

[@newtpondskipper]

They did it! They turned the tide!

[@beezig]

This film, man, I was 10 years old and this was EVERYTHING. It taught me about the power of grief, best death scene in any movie! Also the soundtrack, Stan Bush certainly dared to have The Touch, what a movie.......

[@garybradley912]

My brother, our cousin, and I went to see this in the theater at the mall when we were kids. It's still my favorite Transformers movie!

[@Metallian81]

Lion knocked the theme song out of the park! Amazing song with some great 80's riffs and an amazing solo!

[@Rocketfire871]

Duce, it is UNCANNY how much you sound like Peter Cullen!! Very well done!!

[@mannholloway]

Technically Soundwave is a personal cassette recorder like a walkman not a boombox like Blaster.

[@benabramowitz18]

You know what would make a fun Honest Trailer? The 1990 Flash TV show!

[@haze5420]

The Touch only plays twice in the film. The other song is Dare by Stan Bush which I think is also very good in its own right.

[@Killeraholic]

I remember my dad showing me this movie when I was 8 (I was born in 1996)... I loved it ever since.

[@fuegodrinkscauseusuck6100]

that's actually a really great Peter Cullen impression

[@NeoTechni]

Fun fact: He has voiced Optimus Prime in some games/cartoons

[@KasumiKenshirou]

And his Robert Stack was good, too.

[@AltitudeOutlaw]

This is probably the greatest Honest Trailer ever made or that will ever be made.

[@OctacleEdits]

Do a trailer for the first Ninja Turtles movie from 1990 before Mutant Mayhem comes out! Please!

[@TheToonMonkey]

Still the only film I ever cried at, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.😂

[@fbomb7184]

Don’t watch Up 😭

[@sandal_thong8631]

Yeah, I heard kids were leaving the theater in tears with the death of Optimus Prime.

[@TheToonMonkey]

@@sandal_thong8631 yeah...erm..kids..lol

[@TheToonMonkey]

@@fbomb7184 I was fine with up. After this film I could handle anything. Lol

[@btsskins5557]

I was born in 2002 and still loved this movie because my dad would put it on for us a lot, that’s how good it is

[@aaronflint1089]

1984, I was 10 and the TF's came out and they were awesome. Bought the Marvel comics too. Then in 86, they unveiled the movie, I was 12 and my friends and I went to watch the it in the theaters, twice. We watched the carnage unfold and loved every second of it. And that soundtrack goes hard in the gym yo.

[@jaykoblz1]

I've been slowly buying all the best versions of each character from the movie poster (the Studio Series figures are amazing) so I can recreate it on my dresser. I'm pretty excited by it.

[@therealcyberius]

I was 10 when this was released and I saw it in the theater and it was fantastic! It is still WAY better than the abominations they make today!