Just finished watching this, one of the best movies i have seen in a long time.. It was a great ending to the Transformers Prime series. Packed with action, decent story, some funny scenes aswell, not over the top humour like you have in the live action movies. And the best part? NO Humans! :D
I am quiet sad to see this end though, but hopefully we will get a new Transformers show that is as good as this one day.
What did you all think about it?
There were some good parts, but overall I felt it was underwhelming.
Some parts dragged and others were too rushed, the Predacons, despite the movie's title, had little to no impact, and the absolute lack of human characters did bother me, because the companionship between the 'Bots and them was one of the most forcefully stressed parts of the series, and for it to be glossed over entirely in the finale was ridiculous. And Unicron's defeat was just too anticlimactic for me.
I didn't get the feeling that I was watching an actual big, epic "We're going out with a bang" movie. Just a 60 minute extension to the series.
So yeah, mostly the same as the show itself -- disappointment of an ending with some genuinely good bits leading up to it.
EDIT: I did really like how the Autobots managed to fight back without a leader figure, though. Their actions were much better handled here than in the beginning of season 2, when they jumped at each other's throats like a bunch of helpless kids the moment they realized Prime wasn't there to guide them.
You do have some good points, i agree it felt abit rushed in some areas, there was way to much stuff going on to fit into a 1 hour movie. But i still really enjoyed it and had a blast. But i can see why others didnt find it as amazing as i did though.
About the predacon part, "predacons rising" i think is more referring too unicron ressurecting all the dead predacons.
And yes, it was basicly just a 3 episode into 1 and not really a "movie" but i dont mind that.
The ending was abit anticlimatic indeed, but it was still very good and abit emotional.
But i disagree with the human part. i LOVED that the humans didnt even get one second of screentime, i really despised them in the series, atleast miko..
Im guessing my hype level of the movie made it abit more amazing then it actually was :D but i still think it was great overall!
I normally wouldn't mind neglecting the human characters, but the show really set up a strong bond between them and the Autobots, and the robots learning the concept of 'family' was something of a theme throughout the series.
To not give them any mention other than "they are on Earth" feels like such a betrayal after all this. I mean, I could tolerate the kids even at their worst if I knew that in the end, they will become an important part of the story and I wasn't wasting my time watching their antics.
But since the movie didn't feature them in any capacity, it made it seem like all of that was for nothing. We had to endure Miko's foolery for nothing, because she remained the same annoying brat who didn't even matter in the end. Raf never developed beyond a mere prop. What of Jack being worthy of a Prime now that the title of "Prime" is no more? June and Fowler? After all those episodes the writers spent trying to get us to care for them, it's like they never even mattered. At the very least, I would have expected the 'Bots to reminisce about them when it looked like they were doomed.
Not to mention the oh-so-stressed importance of Earth and its bond with Cybertron. It's simply dismissed with the characters basically saying "Unicron's not there anymore so f ck it".
The movie just proved for the millionth time how much Hasbro's insistence of including the Predacons messed up the cartoon. Introduced abruptly in season 3, the focus of many episodes, and then their would-be plot-line is just as abruptly dropped near the season finale, rendering the middle of the already short season near-pointless. Then they come back for this movie, only to serve next to no purpose, other than pushing Ultra Magnus back to the sidelines and trying and failing to stop Unicron's forces.
It's clear that Hasbro and the show's staff were both following different plans, which is very well evidenced by the new Beast Hunters toyline that had nothing to do with the show's story. If Hasbro had let the writers develop the season and the movie the way they probably originally intended, then the above matters could easily have been addressed. Instead, we have many pointless scenes with the Predacons because they want to advertise the new Beast toys.
*sigh* Maybe, if the next show really is a sequel to this, then some of those issues may get a decent closure.
All good points. The story could have been stretched to fill another half hour at least.
A couple of other things that felt off:
1. John Noble as Unicron. I felt he gave a very inconsistent, an unimpressive vocal performance. Not that they could/should have matched Orson Welles, but something of that caliber, at least.
2. The Unicron-icized bits of Megatron didn't fall off after Unicron's essence or whatever went into Prime's trap thingy. That would have been a nice touch. At the same time, those additions to his form kind of made him look like Galvatron, which was kind of cool; I wonder if that was the intent.
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amazing indeed
shareMy entire family loves this show (even my wife, who usually pokes fun at my Transformer fascination), and we all sat down to watch it last night. We all LOVED it. I'll admit, that there were parts of it that felt slightly rushed, but I didn't think it detracted from the overall experience.
I loved what they did with Bee (it actually mirrors what is currently going on in one of the comic series), and "Megacron" angle favorably reminded me of the original animated movie. As everyone in the house is a fan of Knockout, so we there were quite a few cheers with his storyline.
All in all, I think it was a fantastic way to end the series, even if it did end too soon.
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Garbage, just the like Transformers Prime series, garbage voice acting, garbage CGI animation and garbage plot.
Transformers fans are far too easy to please, Transformers Armada and Energon are proof of this.
The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination - Elim Garak "Improbable Cause"
I respectfully disagree with such strong critique towards this rendition of the "Transformers" Universe.
shareI was kinda expecting to see what became of Airachnid and the Insecticons. Though, I have no idea how they would have fit into this, since there was a lot going on as it was. Perhaps they will be the focus of the supposed spin off/continuation.
The Predacons didn't really factor into this or the series as much as I expected them to given the toy line, but with Cybertron now restored I suppose more may be brought back.
I wish this had been one final season instead of a short(;_;) final movie. Each bot should've gotten some adequate screentime, especially Optimus, and though I generally despise the human characters in any Transformers series, I thought seeing them again, for a very short time only(!!!), would've helped tie up loose ends, etc.
BUT I'd rather they not be in it than steal the show from the Transformers themselves. This isn't the Sam Witwicky Show with Explosions and Robots, afterall.
Anyway, at least we were given a final movie just to see the end, that paid homage to the 1986 movie.
I wish Soundwave had made an appearance, though. I hate the idea of my favorite Decepticon doomed to wander the shadowzone with nothing to keep him company but an undead Skyquake. :(((
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That's fake. No actual info regarding any future TF shows has come out yet, other than it will be more lighter and humorous than Prime was. See link:
http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/2014-1-10-kid-hasbro-studi os-stephen-davis
Well, hey, looks like the new show will be a sequel to Prime. Although in a much different style:
http://www.newsarama.com/20590-transformers-returns-to-tv-with-all-new -series-in-2015.html