Yes that is the real title of the movie. I have no idea who's idea it was to make it that, but the movie is good so it gets a pass.
This movie almost doesn't feel real to me. I'm not a huge Transformers fan, but I absolutely love them and I remember seeing this movie as a kid, but I had almost no recollection of the plot of the movie. As I watched more of the movie it started coming back more, but I made up so much stuff that was in the movie that I thought was in it. However, this was 80-85 minutes of pure fun and nostalgia for me. I will also just get this out of the way now. I will always root for the Autobots to beat the Decepticons, but the Decepticons are the better Transformers. I'll start off by saying that this movie has the shortest exposition part of the story mountain. There is less than 10 minutes of exposition before poop hits the fan. It also stays that way for the entire rest of the movie. As soon as the story starts, it just keeps on going. It hardly slows down, but I think that fits the style of the movie. This movie was so aggressively 80s to me. When I think of the 80s this is what I think of. Bright animation that isn't the greatest but it makes sense why, and some great rock music. One of the things that I thought was in the movie was Bon Jovi's "Livin on a Prayer," but I made that up in my mind and it was a completely different band. However, that doesn't change the fact that the music chosen and made for this movie are great. If you've seen the Michael Bay Transformers movies you know that both Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are pretty important to the movies and lots of the story revolves around them, but this movie just straight up doesn't have them. Optimus Prime is killed pretty quickly on and he doesn't have a lot of screen time. Bumblebee is also a non factor in this movie and is on the screen for what felt like 5 total seconds. I'll take a guess and say that if I was watching Transformers in the 80s, this would have absolutely crushed me even more than now. It's crazy to me that the characters I know of as the most important and coolest of the Autobots are just not in the movie. However, we do get some cool characters like Hot Rod, Galvatron, and Unicron. Although I said once the movie starts it doesn't feel like it stops, that isn't necessarily the best thing to happen. The pacing of this movie did feel a bit weird to me and made the movie not so great for me. I will say that although the pacing isn't great, the movie is just a blast to watch and so enjoyable to watch. 8.5/10.
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