With the passing of the years comes also the passing of a legend, as the nigh-on peerless Optimus Prime voice actor Peter Cullen departs our mortal realm to join his deceased co-stars in that great recording booth in the sky. Suffice it to say our preplanned podcast celebrating 40 years of the animated cinema outing for the Transformers is tinged with more emotion and poignancy than initially expected!
Nonetheless, we must do our best to set our melancholy aside and soberly survey Michael Bay's first live-action attempt to bring the Autobot-Decepticon conflict to the big screen. Maligned in many quarters for its tone and design philosophy; celebrated in others for its spectacle and the window it afforded into the wider Transformers universe. Can slick Hollywood pizazz measure up to rugged cartoon charm? It's a colossal clash of corporate cynicism in which one shall stand and one shall fall!
