The Transformers: The Movie (1986) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • Lots of violence with energy weapons, and many robot characters get killed. Some are crushed, melted, eaten alive, blown to pieces, or simply shot.
  • Four heroic robots are hijacked and gunned down by the villains.
  • A heroic robot sees the villains boarding the ship and jumps up to defend her. He is immediately shot in the chest and falls back, dead. His body is seen for a few more seconds with his wound smoking, showing that the blast went completely through his body.
  • A heroic robot is shot and suffers some kind of internal explosion. His eyes turn orange as fire pours out of his head and smoke pours out of his mouth. He then falls back and explodes. This is particularly graphic and disturbing.
  • Two heroic robots jump up and begin shooting at the enemies. They are both shot multiple times and they fall back. One dies immediately, the other manages to crawl to the foot of the enemies' leader, only to have his head blown off offscreen.
  • Several instances of robots transforming into vehicles and then ramming or running over other robots.
  • Two heroic robots are seen dead. Their corpses are heavily damaged. Their deaths are not shown.
  • An evil robot transforms into a cannon and disintegrates another evil robot.
  • Two robots are executed by being fed to robotic sharks off-camera by their cruel masters.
  • A heroic robot is shot several times by flying robots and his body explodes into several pieces.
  • Three flying robots fly to the main antagonist's mouth in an attempt to find a weak point. He bites down, killing all three flying robots.
  • Two heroic robots are seen dropped into a pit of acid and dying an agonizing death. This is fairly graphic.
  • The fights are generally more brutal than in the TV series, and have lethal consequences.

Profanity

  • Just like the Michael Bay Transformers movie, the swear words are tame but here they are less frequent. Only two are said in the entire movie which are "Shit" and "Damn it". Some versions including the VHS tape of the movie have them dubbed out.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Unicron eats an entire planet. People are shown attempting escape, very frightening to somewhat light-hearted audiences.
  • A heroic robot gets shot in the chest and the view switches to his face as his eyes change from blue to a fiery red, and smoke pours out of his mouth.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • One of the robotic sharks gets its face clawed off by chance, and the main antagonist is also defeated in a graphic manner, by falling apart and then exploding.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • After Megatron gets resurrected as Galvatron, he Transforms into his new Cybertronian canon mode, and blows up Starscream, who then crumbles into pieces. This can be very frightening for some viewers. This can be especially upsetting, after getting attached to the character, throughout the 1984 TV series.
  • This movie is darker than the first two seasons and Optimus prime a beloved character dies but in the third season finale the return of Optimus Prime he comes back to life for good.
  • After being fatally wounded, the leader of the heroic robots is shown in a medical bay in the presence of his friends, including a small human boy. After choosing his successor, he succumbs to his injuries and dies. His life monitor flatlines and his glowing blue eyes fade out. Lastly, his entire body turns to a charcoal-like gray color and his head turns down to his shoulder. His friends are visibly upset; and the human boy is tearfully crying on the robot's arm. However, he is brought back to life in the TV series in subsequent episodes. The successor is killed later on, but is rebuilt.

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