Hot Rod single-handedly saved his buddies and rallied the troops to take down Unicron and Galvatron. All this before even becoming Rodimus. And you wonder why the Matrix picked him.
@@jamesveronese6519 yes, I know. I simply disagree that it’s pointless like the original poster stated. This scene was amazing, and gives credence to why Hot Rod was worthy of being the leader of the Autobots.
And it lessened the load. One could travel leaving the other fresh to fight whereas usually a transformer tired himself out with fancy evasive vehicle maneuvers
That was always a neat aspect of them: even if you managed to knock one down, they’d seamlessly trade off like nothing happened, and combined with their immortality? Junkions are a *nightmare* to fight.
@@Ozzy242 Which is even crazier because Blurr is basically The Flash of Transformers and has actual superspeed. Perceptor was just sprinting right next to him in vehicle mode lol.
If you guys think about this logically, the Junkions only really attacked in defense of their home, they thought the Autobots were invaders. Thank Primus for the Universal Greeting.
theory has it that the Planet of Junk is actually the missing section of Cybertron that got blown off during the civil war, and the Junkions are Cybertronians that have gone a little loopy
I had thought they were just other transformers made by the quintessons separately from the cybertronians, kinda like the Sharkticons and the Lithonians.
Only in this movie could you have a scene where a global 80s icon can die in a super emotional way, have half of the cast get killed off in brutally shocking fashion, AND have Eric Idle speaking in television with a bunch of robots having a dance party, and not get tonal whiplash. I don't understand how this movie can be light hearted and fun, while also being shocking and dark. Genuinely, this movie does NOT get enough recognition outside of nerd circles for making a movie that genuinely every member of a family could love for completely different and unique reasons.
I just love how some scenes take their time and slow down, then there are scenes like this where Hot Rod shows up and is like: "We need to destroy Unicron!" Junkticons: "YEAH! LET'S KILL THAT GUY! SPACESHIP GO!"
I find it hilarious that one second they're all trying to kill them, but then one sentence later, its like "Its all good, lets have dance party instead." LOL, love it.
0:31 If you notice when the wreck gar and his gang are chasing the autobots, perceptor is running instead of transforming because his alt mode is a microscope and not a vehicle
(In 2018) Springer: "We need to find a way back to Cybertron before Galvatron does!" Wreck-Gar: "BRUDDA I KNO DA WAE" Junkions: "WHAT THE FOX SAY! GEARBOXES OUT FOR HARAMBE!" Kup: "In all my centuries never have I heard such rubbish" Junkion: "CUS YOU WEREN'T AT ELF PRACTICE. GO BITE A TIDE POD"
Everyone is dealing with the traumatizing corpse of their leader hours after having lost their other leader and Wreck-Gar forces everyone into a music video lmao.
@@YesitsmyrealnameNo, most of the background Junkions are Lithone robot repaints. If Kranix gets made, then Hasbro can start giving us endless Junkions.
Totally agree and I hope that rumour of the storyboards that are featured in the extended version of prime vs megatrons last fight is true,ok you’ll see red alert get wasted but with those storyboards it adds to it more I think
The fact that Eric Idle himself has very little memory of shooting this (as attested in his autobiography) just reinforces the belief that this whole movie was a fever dream of some kind.
If you’re wondering how they managed to restore Ultra Magnus but didn’t restore Optimus here’s my theory: Ultra Magnus’ injuries were mostly external, he was dismembered but still had life and could be fixed. Optimus’ injuries were internal, he was shot full of holes and slashed and stabbed, therefore his “hard drive” and “processor” was damaged beyond repair.
You also have to take into account that Optimus's spark faded.. his "life force" was gone. The autobots do not possess the capability to instill life into a body that is already bereft of it.. only the mega computer deep inside cybertron can do that.. Sure they could have rebuilt his body, but they couldn't save his fading life force. Even if they did.. it would have been, in the most literal sense, a "lifeless husk"
it's actually just cutted/modified scene, Galvatron actually just quartered Ultra Magnus with laser ropes, not blown him up with laser guns, so it's not theory, you're just right
The sight of a Transformer made partially from junk riding another Transformer in the form of a spiky futuristic motorcycle on a planet made almost entirely from junk whipping a chain in a perfect circle all to the tune of a Wierd-Al song gives me a divine feeling Edit: Eric Idle is still alive! Wreck-gar lives on! Happy motoring!
I am so glad my friend convinced me to watch this movie. I never thought I'd watch a robot fight scene set to Weird Al followed by a junkyard dance party, but here we are
Just remembered his scene from when I was a kid and looked it up because I thought it was weird. Turns out it was even weirder than I remember and I love that
I'll never not laugh at these whackos dancing around to Weird Al after being given a piece of space gum, and then immediately joining forces with the autobots
The thing that made the Junkions so terrifying in battle wasn’t their strength, they’re nothing special there. The reason they should be feared in a fight is that there are *so many* of them, and they *_just don’t die._* Their sheer numbers and durability made them nearly impossible to deal with.
3 minutes ago they were all crying over Ultra Magnus's dismembered corpse, now they're having a dance number. This movie is as awesome as when I watched it as a kid. It doesn't pretend to be anything, it just is charming.
I never grew up with the original transformers or movie, I was an Armada kid so this is like a sledgehammer to the face hearing Weird Al just singing during a Mad Max Mongolian Cockney gang war
Wreck-Gar was played by Eric Idle in the movie. So yes. (Years later, when they were making the Transformers: Animated series, they offered the role to Idle again, but he wasn't able to schedule it (this was when he was putting Spamalot together), so they got Weird Al himself to do the voice instead.)
@@Ozzy242 This came out a fair bit after Monty Python. The original show aired from 1969 to 1974, The Holy Grail came out in 1975, and Life Of Brian came out in 1979. Eric Idle was well-established by this point, even if John Cleese and Michael Palin were a lot more recognizable among the show's alumni.
I found it kinda funny that everyone went into vehicle mode but Perceptor just goes on a full sprint and catches up to everybody. Guess Perceptor didn't skip leg day in the lab.
It occured to me everyone transformed into vehicles but Perceptor ran on foot and was at the same speed as the others. Perceptor really can run away fast.
What's even funnier is the fact that the singer of "Dare to Be Stupid", "Weird Al" Yankovic would later go on to play Wreck-Gar and make a reference to that song in Transformers Animated.
"So a Lamborghini Countache has Judd Nelson's voice, but he's a robot, and he has to fight in outer space, but he's in trouble!" *snorts half gram of fishscale in one rip* "But its cool bc Eric Idle and Weird Al show up on a planet of scrap metal and quote TV while giving them a spaceship! " *more cocaine* "Eliminate even the toughest stains! Writing movies kicks ass!'
