These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Transformers: The Movie
Adaptation Displacement: After the cancellation of the cartoon series, the Movie, which was widely available on home video, became most people's introduction to the Transformers universe.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The Junkions' dance with the Autobots on a Junk planet, to the tune of "Weird Al" Yankovic's 'Dare to Be Stupid' is probably a borderline case of this. The only thing keeping it from being such is Ultra Magnus being rebuilt during the scene.
Canon Discontinuity: Many examples, most are due to deleted/missing scenes. For example, Optimus Prime's rifle mysteriously disappears just before he finds Megatron. Transformers who die in the movie can sometimes be seen in later crowd shots (such as Thundercracker and Skywarp at Starscream's coronation) and the supposed-to-be-dead Shrapnel even gets a line when he shows up on planet Junkion.
Nightmare Fuel: Unicron himself, particularly his encounter with Megatron and his devouring of a planet, the Quintessons, and Prowl and Starscream's deaths.
The Scrappy: Wheelie (because he speaks in rhymes) and Hot Rod (his actions - unintentionally - got Optimus killed).
Transformers The Movie was the first Western animated feature film to rely on ideas from anime and comics (and yeah, Star Wars) to set up an elaborate space opera with a backstory and continuity tie-ins to resulting episodes of the series. After it came out, all the other Saturday Morning TV series copied the idea. With the rise in popularity of anime and elaborately plotted multiverse continuities in every franchise (Transformers or otherwise), it's considered no big deal now.
Two Three words: DigimonThe Movie (at least the three-part dub). The Merchandise Driven nature, type of soundtrack used (for the time), backstory and continuity expansion all seem to draw fromTFTM - they even share the same animation studio and Animesque style (although Digimon is actually Japanese anime).
So Bad, It's Good: No one will claim that it's a pinnacle of high-quality cinema*
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: As noted under Darker and Edgier, this film surprised a lot of parents (and children) who expected the same lighthearted tone as the TV series, only to see hordes of Autobots die in the first ten minutes.
