Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Married Baby
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
generationofswine
I don't know if you readers were ever little boys before...but I was...and I can assure you that when you are 5 you have serious--in all caps--SERIOUS debates with your friends about which is better the GoBots or the Transformers."Are you kidding me? The Transformers leader is a Semi-Truck...the Gobots have a an F-14 as their leader!!!!!" Or something like that.The GoBots...The GoBots....The GoBots.I'll be honest, I was a MASK fan. I needed that human element to relate to. Nah, just kidding, I just liked the toys more.Anyway, it is basically the Transformers with the names changed to protect the innocent and less of a problem making the good robots into weapons of war rather than harmless trucks and little VW bugs.Other than that...its all in the name and somehow Transformers won that serious debate.Someone needs to make a GoBots movie just to spite Michael Bay.
justin-fencsak
When Go-Bots came out, it was one of two robot cartoon series that were produced by American studios based on popular Japanese robot toys. The show started off as a five-part miniseries before going on for two seasons, while its robot rival, Transformers, lasted even longer. Both robot shows even spawned their own animated movies, each with limited success. One interesting thing to note is that Hasbro would later buy the rights to Go-Bots from Tonka, since Hasbro brought the Transformers to American shores. As for the cartoon, it's robots, done Hanna-Barbera style. Frank Welker and Peter Cullen are the popular voices who also worked on TF. An underrated show.
Scott Miller
I never loved the GoBots. I had the toys and I watched the show, but in a time when kids were obsessed with transforming robots, this cartoon never quite got it right. While the Transformers was never as dark as my all-time favorite cartoon, Voltron, it definitely had more edge than the GoBots. And while the Transformers looked like robots who transformed into vehicles, the GoBots never looked like robots at all but simply walking vehicles (as a child I didn't know how to express this, so I simply said that the GoBots "kept their stuff") and that was the main thing that always bugged me about the show.That said, the GoBots will always have a place in my heart because I could afford the toys. Most GoBot toys sold for less than $5, while most Transformers went for about $8-$10 (big ones, like Optimus Prime, went for over $20!), and we didn't have that much money. So I had a lot more GoBots than Transformers. The cartoons, however, were free, and it is in that respect that the GoBots left me feeling shortchanged.
Big Movie Fan
This cartoon was fun and so was the series that followed. It was one of those great 1980's cartoons.There are obvious similarities with Transformers and I think that Transformers was a superior cartoon but this was fun too.Both the good Gobots and bad Gobots were a lot more 'human' than the Transformers. Scooter was my favourite throughout the series. Also, in the interests of equality we had a few 'female' Gobots. Like other 1980's cartoon heroes the good Gobots were truly moralistic whilst the bad Gobots were really wicked with no redeeming features at all.Those who have watched Transformers might not enjoy this as much but it can be enjoyed if you're in the right mood.
