Basically just the best animated movie based on a tv series to make it to the big screen! This movie at the time was practically perfect. Although their were some flaws, the movie itself was way ahead of it's time. Since there is not much for me to say good that has not already been said , i'll try and focus on the little things I thought otherwise dissapointing. First i think i'd like to list the flaws.
1.)Why is devastator the only giant(gestalt) robot in the film. By the time the movie came out, the series had produced several other more popular giant(gestalt) robots:Superion,bruticus,Menasor are just examples but there were more albeit powerful gestalts at that time. Not to say I don't like devastator, because he was the first, and my alltime favorite so it's good to see him get credit in the movie, but for him to be the only gestalt in the movie was ridicoulous. They could have at least thrown in his main rival Omega supreme(non-gestalt i think). But instead we get to see him pick apart the dino-bots. Like we have not seen that one before in the cartoon series. Gestalts were the second coolest thing about the caroon series in general up to that point after Optimus Prime himself. So for fans to get only the one gestalt who gets pummeled by rumble and frenzy later on in the movie is just retarded, and makes the movie look inconsistent just a tad bit.
2.)The end of the movie was rushed. I'll tell you why I know this. Unicron in his robot mode is a hell of a lot smaller than in his planet eating form. Several autobots are seen propelling themselves out of his right eye in the end. A good comparison would be myself jumping out of the statue of liberty's right eye. Mind you the statue of liberty is a giant statue standing on a very big planet earth. If unicron is planetary(earth/cybertron) size why then can we see the autobots crashing through his eye? They should big like microsized nothings to his eye. At least that's what I think. Another problem is with the autobots in general attacking unicron from the outside. The dinots breathe fire/laser beams on his butt, and he feels it, and tries to swat them in that area. It's just not feasable to think a planetary sized unicron would feel anything like this at all. Even at the age of 11 when I first saw the movie I was questioning this stuff. The only explanation I can think of is that unicron like megatron can make himself larger in his non robot mode. You notice in the cartoon series megatron could transform into a gun which could be big enough for a transformer to use, or if he wanted small enough for a human to use also. This would clear things up about the whole unicron size issue for me at least.
Well all in all it was a great great great animated film. The best ever released in america to date. Yes Yes it was even better than the lion king. I can say that with confidence since the animation at the time TTM came out was way ahead of it's time. Lion king's animation was right on time for when it came out, but not wayyyy ahead.