Aside from that, it’s repetitive with the vocalist constantly singing “Transformers, more than meets the eye/robots in disguise” and it does get kind of annoying pretty quickly. It’s the opposite of the Stan Bush songs, that is, I’d much prefer listening to a theme song on a TV show or a film rather than on a soundtrack. The Transformers theme song, performed by the short-lived band “Lion,” is one of those cases where I don’t really want to listen to it too much. As for the theme song and in my personal view, I despise the idea of trying to make theme songs “epic” or “fun,” or for that matter, adding a theme song in a soundtrack in general. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fun song, but…why is it this film. Weird Al Yankovic’s “Dare to Be Stupid” is probably the absolute strangest choice to be in a film such as this one. Again, they aren’t really memorable and you’ll probably only listen to the song for the first minute are so before you change the song. The guitar parts are played pretty well, though the vocals do kind of suck it’s like their trying to impersonate Megadeth in a weird way. as it was heard in the famous scene of the film where the Autobots actually get killed. You may recognize “Instruments of Destruction” performed by N.R.G. However, most of the other songs aren’t really memorable. “Dare” is well performed with an excellent keyboard solo that makes me keep coming back to this song. If you can get past the cheesy lyrics of these two songs, then I’m sure you’ll enjoy them. Oddly enough, “The Touch” was supposed to be in a Sylvester Stallone film titled “Cobra” and I honestly thought that Stan Bush would’ve been better off with that film because “Cobra” was such a huge success at the box office at the time, even though it was a critical failure, while “The Transformer: The Movie” only made about a million bucks within its first weekend and its audience mostly consisted of fans of the TV show. I actually enjoy these two songs on my iPod rather than in the film, the reason being that both of these songs are unnecessarily repeated twice in the movie for some strange reason. But the lyrics are pretty cheesy with the songs being those, “Never give up” or “You have the power to defeat evil” kind of songs. Those who remember this film obviously know about the Stan Bush songs, “The Touch” and “Dare.” Being honest, I do think that these are the most fun to listen to, with “Dare” being my favorite out of the two. I actually enjoyed both, but they have their flaws that I want to point out in this review. I’m also not saying that I didn’t enjoy the film or soundtrack. I’m reviewing the soundtrack, not the movie (obviously since this is a website for music reviews, duh!). I know that there are a lot of people that enjoy this film, particularly those who are fans of the original G1 Transformers cartoons, and I’m sure that people may think that I’m a cold and heartless A-hole for not giving this soundtrack a high rating. Now before I go on I just want to say this: I’m not dissing or criticizing the film in any way (even though I just said it was a feature length toy commercial). A lot of kids enjoyed the toys and the show and of course, Hasbro decided to make a movie based on the TV show and the result: a feature length toy commercial with notable voices such as Leonard Nimoy, and Eric Idle, and a “soundtrack” filled with different artists that practically play the same genre of music, that would ultimately be the one of the only reasons why people even know about the film in the first place. It’s cheesy and sometimes really stupid approaches ironically made the series so enjoyable in the first place. The Transformers television series is probably one of the biggest targets for nostalgia lately. But let's face it, there are some really fun tracks. Review Summary: This "soundtrack" is too dependent on other artists to make the film popular, making it one of the only reasons why this film is notable in the first place.
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