I have to add more to this because there’s just so much bullshit in the movie:
Weird Al’s involvement with the film, as recounted by him in an interview he did after he played Wreck-Gar in Transformers Animated, boiled down to a single phone call. He answered the phone and was asked by his agent if “Dare to be Stupid” could be used in the movie. He said “sure,” hung up, and that was the end of his involvement.
At the time of the recording for the movie, Orson Welles was… not in the best of shape, to put it nicely. When he walked in to the studio to begin recording, he allegedly said “It is to my understanding… That I am to be playing… An entire planet?” Orson Welles’ last role before he died was essentially a fat joke.
The reaction to the egregious deaths in the first act of the movie, especially Optimus Prime’s death, caused a massive stir behind the scenes because none of the “suits” involved realized that they were essentially murdering childhood superheroes when they killed off the old cast to make room for new toys. They were so shaken by this that they actually made last-minute changes to the upcoming GI Joe movie where Duke was planned to die, adding a scene to the end of the movie where someone gets a phone call and says “OH HEY DUKE’S JUST IN A COMA, COOL.”
Optimus Prime was actually planned to come back to life for a little bit in the cartoon before the backlash, but after the backlash the writers didn’t have the heart to formally announce their plans to bring Optimus Prime back as a zombie and have him killed again. Those episodes still happened, by the way.
The Dinobots played a major role in the movie as comedy relief characters, with each dinobot getting at least one scene to themselves. For some reason though, the dinobot Snarl is almost entirely omitted from the movie, showing up for less than ten frames in two different shots. Any scene where all of the dinobots were on-screen and speaking, Snarl was completely absent. Nobody who worked on the movie actually seems to know why this happened, with the best explanation offered being “We forgot.”
The movie was universally panned by critics upon release. One critic drew a direct comparison to the recently released Go-Bots movie, praising the Go-Bots for having more distinct characters and a larger female presence in the cast, taking offense to the only female robot being pink and voluptuous.
Floro Dery, designer for a lot of the early Transformers characters, described his process for designing the character Arcee as being a “the naked mechanical equivalent of Princess Leia of Star Wars.”
In one scene, Unicron transforms some Decepticons in to his personal warriors. He transforms Bombshell and Skywarp in to Cyclonus and “His Armada” and three other Transformers in to Scourge and his servants The Sweeps. “His Armada” is a singular robot completely identical to Cyclonus, and in the next jump-cut he disappears forever and is replaced with a third Sweep. Not the next scene, mind you. The next cut. “His Armada,” the singular robot made out of Skywarp, only existed for five seconds before just disappearing from existence and being replaced by a third Sweep. No subsequent rerelease of the movie or adaptation of the movie has bothered to correct this error. The glaring oversight of an entire character being introduced and then just plain old not existing made it in to the final movie and was never corrected.
That’s all I can think of right now. I’m sure there’s more, but I’ll leave it to someone else.
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