Good review as always nostalgia chick

Oh no the Nostalgia chick stepped into the Nostalgia Critic's territory! Sweet!

Nice review NC with a twist ending

He brought us Transformers?!

Nice use of the impirial march, by the way.

Edit: Definatly one of, if not, your best reviews.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must find Mister Bay and force him to whatch every Alfred Hitchcock movie until his eyes bleed.

Don

don't or else he'll make a shitty North by Northwest remake with nothing but explosions.

Is there any franchise more nostalgic than Transformers? Well...maybe some people think so, but not me. The toys were, and still are, awesome. They're 3 toys in one: a vehicle, a robot, and a puzzle (the transformation process). Could there be anything more perfect?

On top of that, the show, while cheesy, was a fun slice of sci-fi goodness for kids of all ages, and will not be soon forgotten, thanks to people like Lindsay, Doug, and the rest of us Transformers fans out there.

G.I. Joe And no, that one will be a rental for me.

So, 1980 Transformers was Transforming Toys as imagined by Gerald Potterton?

Armageddon...yes...it is coming.

I swear these two make a great couple......And they would spawn the most sarcastic child ever....And it would be good.

I must go find the Bay bunker to stop more overhyped crap from coming out.

You pack the knock out gas, I'll supply the cutting torch.

VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

I will bring a cigar cutter. You don't want to know why.

Good thing the US military made a bunker-buster, we now have Target #1

I have no doubt that this part 2 will be better than Bay's part 2

Very funny, and the coup de grace was the Michael Bay hack (is that redundant?). You guys might want to consider making Mikey a regular guest star.

Meh. Not your best review. At times I thought you were falling asleep during the video. Also the NC cameos are getting a bit old. The last couple reviews you did had me laughing out loud, this one... not so much. Oh well, they can't all be memorable.

Does that mean we should be expecting a review of "Titanic 2" (Pearl Harbor) in the near future?

Where is Cecil B. Demented when you need him. He would have delt with Michael "Baysplosion" Bay years ago.

I still emotionally spike when I hear those so 80s songs hit. I was 6 years old when I say the animated Transformers movie and was amazed through out the whole thing. Epically when Spike said shit. My jaw dropped.

Oh if you really want to tourture NC properly make him sit through the god awful animated Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter (american) series that ran on USA.

Cheers

I had this terrifying image that McCracken was going to do the Buffalo bill. "would you fuck me? I'd fuck me" bit at the end. :s

It always amazes me how attached some people are to the original Transformers movie. I'll freely admit I liked the Transformers as a child. I even had a few of the toys growing up. There's certainly a nostalgia factor involved with the franchise for me. But all things being equal, the show and movie were long toy commercials. Much like every other popular 80s cartoon. I feel nostalgic about the Transformers. But I've seen people who are down right fanatic.

Oh dear God you're going to take on that movie next? My condolences. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get "Don't Want to Miss a Thing" out of my head. I forget how I got it out last time it got stuck in there. Perhaps large amounts of alcohol will do the trick.

Great work Lindsay. This review was much better than Cinemassacre version done by James.

Gotta love the life cycle of the Transformers, it went from Diaclones in Japan to what it is today

so initially we had The Transformers: the Cartoon based off the Japanese toy

It splits off onto The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory, and Zone: which finish off what is known as Generation 1, or the Japanese continuation of the American cartoon, based off the Japanese toy

Then Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, Baeast Machines: The Canadian CG based off the Japanese cartoon, based off the American cartoon, based off the American Cartoon based off the Japanese toy

Then came Robots in Disguise, and the Unicron Trilogy (Armada, Energon, Cybertron) or: The Japanese Cartoon, based off the Canadian CG, based off the Japanese continuation of the American cartoon based off the Japanese toy

And now Animated has just finished its series: The American cartoon, based off the Japanese Cartoon, based off the Canadian CG, based off the Japanese continuation of the American cartoon based off the Japanese toy

Things I knew about Transformers and its movie before coming in:
1. As implied here, the Transformers series and similar ones of its ilk were only possible thanks to Reagan's deregulation of the FCC and relegalization of toy-based TV shows.
2. Optimus Prime dies in the movie.
3. It was Orson Welles's last film role.
4. Scatman Crothers was Jazz.

Things I learned from this review:
1. John Mochitta was a Transformer. Not surprisingly, a fast-talking one.
2. Orson Welles died from eating too many robots.
3. This is not the film based on a Hasbro toy line where a character says "holy shit"- that was G.I. Joe.
4. Garage door openers can double as explosive devices. But then again, maybe that's the power of Michael Bay- everything he seems to touch becomes an explosive device.

Nice review and I can't help but to laugh each time I hear any mention of the 80's movie.

I used to talk with my friends about our favorite characters and most of them prefered Megatron and Starscream and when we heard characters died in the movie we all argued about who would. I was the only fan of Soundwave and they all thought he would die.

Needless to say, I got the last laugh. I didn't really watch TFs much after, I never figured out if Soundwave ever died.

Power Ballads! They give you super strength!

Nice review as usual, I just hope you JUST put him to sleep lol.

The review was right on, from the bickering with Doug to Michael Bay's appearance.

Ever since I saw The Worst Movie Ever* (Armageddon) eleven years ago, this actor's portrayal is exactly how I pictured Bay to be: A megalomaniacal, greedy, imperialist, propaganda making Redneck. And a hack too.

Doug, you could have countered the 'Red Sonja' argument by stating 'Red Sonja is not a girlie movie because Brigette Nielson is the lead character and she's a man.

*Technically, it is not the worst movie ever,but after I did the budget to badness math, Armageddon trumps everything else. It is #1 on my top 3 bad movie list alongside 'Funny Games' and 'Black Devil Doll from Hell'.

I have seen the worst movie ever and it's name is... "WING COMMANDER"

"Armageddon" doesn't even come close!

Nostalgia Chick, you review whateverthehell you want!

You Rock!

Really? I sickly enjoyed Funny Games on some levels. The fact that it thoroughly (and intentionally) pissed the viewer off does not necessarily make it a terrible film. It certainly was done with more artistic originality than a movie like Armageddon. But as for the worst? For me: Dude, Where's My Car? Awful.

Even with how much I absolutely love this movie, this was a pretty fair evaluation of it.

It's very flawed, and surprisingly brutal for a movie geared at kids. Killed my (obvious) favorite character, too. And it's a bunch of power ballads over an hour and a half-long commercial. But loving things despite (or because of) their flaws is what Nostalgia is for, right?

No, I'm pretty sure it was this one.

Spike (I think it was Spike, it might have been Cliffjumper) says it when he and Jazz and Cliffjumper get eaten by Unicron. I think it's editted in a lot of releases of the movie, though, so that he says something else.

If it matterred to you at all, which I'm sure it didn't... Soundwave lives through the movie, and actually has at least 1 episode pretty heavily dedicated to himself in Season 3. He laughs in the episode, which is as strange to actually hear as it sounds to say.

Given that it's an episode about him setting up a Nightclub or something... it's not the strangest thing about it. Season 3 was very strange.

Actually it matters for me a lot, seeing how Soundwave is by far one of my favorite characters of all time. I decided that I'd go see the second transformer movie no matter what, even if it seems to be considered bad as long as it had Soundwave or Shockwave.

I bet I won't see much of Soundwave in the movie but that's fine with me, I just want to have a moment of fanboyism.

Finally, Xanadu with alien robots.

I am still haunted by the deaths of Iron Hide and Brawn till this day. NEVER FORGET! NEVER EVER FORGET!

Even with all the negative things that can (and should) be said about Revenge of the Fallen...

Soundwave wasn't handled too poorly at all. He isn't in any actual combat or anything, but he feels right in how he's represented. At least, I thought so.

Best part was Soundwave was voiced by Frank Welker in the new movie, a name any fan of the original series should know. (He voiced half the originals in the old show/movie including Soundwave and Megatron). They did a good job with his voice modulation, but it just didnt sound enough like Soundwave. Frank did a really god job doing the actual lines and capturing the emotionless sound he always had. I'm dissapointed at the voice modulation, not the actual voice itself if that makes sense at all XD

In an interview with Frank Welker, he said that his favorite character that he voiced was Megatron.
FRANK WELKER IS DA BOMB!!

Masterfully done, you miss deserve a round of slow dramatic clapping!

Michael Bay needs some ritalin or something.

Can't wait for the Armageddon review!

Nice but you failed to touch on what I feel is the key source of humor of the old Transformers Cartoons.

Hilariously bad voice dubbing.

Just look at the pilot episode of the original series. There were times when Shockwave's voice came out of Megatron's mouth, etc. My favorite was when the Autobots save a town from being flooded when a dam is in danger and from one of the rooftops a woman in a pink dress calls down in a deep, masculine voice "Thanks, neighbor!" Wow, I didn't realize Transformers was TG-friendly!