40 Years Later, The Transformers: The Movie Is Better Than We Remember

Forty years ago, The Transformers: The Movie did something almost unthinkable for a film based on a Saturday-morning toy franchise: it treated its world as though everything actually mattered. Characters could die. Leaders could fall. Villains could evolve. Entire planets could disappear. Released in 1986, the movie was initially a theatrical disappointment, but time has been extraordinarily kind to it. Four decades later, Hasbro and Fathom Entertainment have returned the film to theaters in a newly restored 4K presentation for its 40th anniversary. Watching it today reveals something surprising. This…

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