Hot Rod
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt. From TMDB
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60 of 85 · most liked firstWith the 1986 Transformers movie soon to be back in cinemas, it's time to consider everyone's favourite turbo-revving young punk — as we look at some of the BEST Hot Rod toys of all time... but do you agree with the choices? --> tfsource.com/blog/20...
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: Hot Rod (2007)
neutral · AI labelView post →“Wheelie in seat, the film will be neat!” I’m here! Not many seats booked so hopefully will be quiet (famous last words 😒). Brought my childhood Wheelie to enjoy the show. Was going to bring Hot Rod since it’s his film but didn’t want to risk his roof. “If Wheelie’s roof gone it soon pops back on!”
neutral · AI labelView post →Hot Rod is the greatest movie ever made
positive · AI labelView post →Good morning! It's @cmdrsealed.bsky.social start today at 12pm est! On our way! See ya there! I need two folks at Sealed who love the movie Hot Rod to come find me. Thank you. #magicthegathering #mtg #cmdrsealed
neutral · AI labelView post →Issue #76 of our weekly newsletter is out now, ft. A Brief History of British Comics, Dead Beatles, “Happy Batman Day”, Planks Constant, Slaine, The Mask, Transformers The Movie, your god emperor Dan Abnett and more! "Hot Rod throws the fish back. Of course he does."
neutral · AI labelView post →just realized that the first pump copying Judd Nelson from The Breakfast Club that the titular character does in Bumblebee (2018) is actually a deep cut because Judd Nelson started as Hot Rod in the original Transformers: The Movie (1986) also Bumblebee (2018) was Actually Good, turns out
neutral · AI labelView post →Personal. Just finished transformer the movie 40th anniversary and Hot Rod added to my favorite character now. The movie and the short movie Optimus Prime awakening is good but it doesn’t help I WANT MORE OPTIMUS PRIME 😭. I will miss ya Peter Cullen, till we are one.
neutral · AI labelView post →10 movies i love Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Casablanca They Cloned Tyrone Rocky It Happened One Night Superman (2025) Your Name Hot Rod Wet Hot American Summer A Goofy Movie
neutral · AI labelView post →“Le Film” means the robot toy movie is art. Also, you can hilariously stack the accessory storage on the new Hot Rod.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's especially fucked because taken in isolation, the message of the film is the opposite--"Optimus Prime was just Some Guy who was keeping the Matrix warm for Hot Rod, fated saviour of the Autobots"--but in the panicked backtracking, the movie got recontextualised as Iconic Optimus Christ Moment.
neutral · AI labelView post →🤖🔥 The Transformers: The Movie (1986) – Hot Rod Summer We kick off ani-MAY-tion month with a favorite of ours! Fighting, planet eating, and an awesome soundtrack! We review the animated classic that came up with the cruelest way ever to get kids to buy new toys. #MovieSky #FilmSky #Animaytion
neutral · AI labelView post →Fake Fact: The inclusion of Great Balls Of Fire in the TV Film Hot Rod paid 2 months worth of alimony that Jerry Lee Lewis owed his 4th wife #BMovieManiacs
neutral · AI labelView post →❤️ Coyote Vs Acme 🎥 As always, fellow Hot Rod and man of every voice Eric Bauza was amazing! Loved this movie!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hot Rod 1950 link #BMovieManiacs youtu.be/FnVARR9J79s?...
neutral · AI labelView post →He also couldn't open the child lock on the matrix, wasn't smart enough to use his fingers. Hot Rod did that immediately and resolved the movie 👌
neutral · AI labelView post →ME: EAGLE VS SHARK walked so HOT ROD could run. This is kot a thorough review or even a completenlove letter. I just really adore the spirit of this film. boxd.it/a0KYxhe
positive · AI labelView post →Why is there no Hot Rod LEGO yet? I'd take the film, the Transformer, or both.
neutral · AI labelView post →"In Rod We Trust" an episodic podcast breaking down the film HOT ROD.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in film, we watched the 2nd half of Nacho Libre, followed by a little cinematic masterpiece neither of us had ever heard of called Hot Rod. What a journey that was.
positive · AI labelView post →“I watched the movie industry get decimated,” Jay Leno told me. “I don’t want the Hot Rod business or the mechanical business to leave (California) the way the film business did.” www.kcra.com/article/jay-...
neutral · AI labelView post →What happened to Hot Rod and the ending of the Transformers: The Movie explained on this week's 40 for 40 - dropping Tuesday!
neutral · AI labelView post →This makes me think: without the great Peter Cullen, what would we do for future Transformers movies? For me, I'd love to see a live action movie follow the 86 movie; Prime dies, and Hot Rod gains the Matrix. Or we could have Ultra Magnus. Or Arcee. But we know what will happen instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a heads up, small thing, but there's a part of the movie with Daniel and Hot Rod fishing that the footage is weirdly blurry for a moment. This is apparently in the version of the film sent to all theaters.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thanks Glenn! This was the exact moment in the film that i fell in love with Hot Rod as a character! It was such a cool transformation! So pleased you like it!
neutral · AI labelView post →One nice thing about the hawks nesting in our tree is that every day all day they are screaming, and it inspires me to success much in the style of the film Hot Rod (2007)
neutral · AI labelView post →Very cool- both of my feature films "Hot Rod Girls Save The World" and "Rat Rod Rockers!" are still available to rent at @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social On DVD. We sold thousands of those back in the day. Physical media was an excellent way for film makers to make $. #filmsky #DVD #physicalmedia
neutral · AI labelView post →(Hot Rod is an objectively perfect film and mutt will die on this hill.)
positive · AI labelView post →I did show the movie to my brother for the first time in his life recently and he hates Hot Rod/Rodimus, it's hilarious, he ain't wrong, he did kill Optimus but still funny (We both agree Ultra Magnus is the bigger hack, fucker didn't do shit at all)
neutral · AI labelView post →3 of the "video games that don't exist" covers I've made are based on movies that I watched shortly after making those covers Office Space [Game Boy Color] (4/2 - 4/20) Walk Hard [Multiplatform] (4/4 - 4/21) Hot Rod [Multiplatform] (both made the cover and watched the movie on the same day)
neutral · AI labelView post →40 For 40: Transformers The Movie - #13 Hot Rod Interferes youtu.be/t6OFrkzVU8g?...
unlabelledView post →Is it even possible for Optimus Prime and Megatron to kill each other? I discuss that during this week's 40 for 40: Transformers The Movie as I take a closer look at Hot Rod interrupting their final battle! Available now on your favorite podcast platform!
unlabelledView post →Happy to. 🙂 Hot Rod is the star of the film, and it frustrates me when it gets ignored. He’s such a good character
unlabelledView post →Even if you don't care for Hot Rod, you have to admit it uses him well to give a hook to the movie, even if you're not seeing all your favorite G1 friends. You see him go from in over his head to the next generation of leaders. No such attempt with Falcon and new Joes here.
unlabelledView post →I have a cheaper toy of her. I am in the middle of moving things around, can’t show a pic, but she was l standing next to Starscream with a crown on holding a spare Mjolnir I had around + a few other Transformers I have Hot Rod. Arcee had me so happy to see in the film, always wanted her toy.
unlabelledView post →Okay, so I just had a complete time displacement event. Watching Emerald Knights, picking up voices here and there, but there's one that sounds SO familiar, but it can't be because he's dead...when was this movie made? 2011. Holy f....Roddy Piper voiced Bolphunga, died in 2015. RIP Hot Rod ✌️😎
unlabelledView post →I can already see a scenario like in Hot Rod where the whole theater is laughing at his movie and he throws the projector out of a window.
unlabelledView post →Cut subplot of Blaster leading a resistance of 84/85 characters against Decepticon forces on Earth after Hot Rod et al escape. Substantial action in early drafts, got chiselled down as the movie got closer to completion before being cut altogether. Probably for the best as the film was very busy
unlabelledView post →Transformers: The Movie Studio Series MTMTE Collection figures are in stock to ship at Target: Insecticon 3-pack Hot Rod Prowl www.target.com/items/-/ct-9...
unlabelledView post →Oh weird.. thanks for the heads up. Not enough to ruin the movie thankfully. One of the core memories I have watching this movie on vhs is the tape getting screwed up for a sec when Hot Rod says “What?” on lookout mountain. Only happened on that specific vhs tape, but I always anticipate it. lol
unlabelledView post →Watched the Transformers movie tonight. We were in a row with a kid and his dad who were super fans. I could hear them reciting the movie and during the scene where Hot Rod takes up the matrix, they both stood up and opened up their own replicas of the matrix. Wild!
unlabelledView post →Are you Team Hot Rod and Arcee or Team Springer and Arcee? Can you guess the team I support?.... The Transformers: The Movie, It will grace theaters again this year from the 17th September. Are you going? "Beyond good. Beyond Evil. Beyond your wildest imagination."
unlabelledView post →Since I'm going to see it next week: From the original Transformers Animated movie, Kup and Hot Rod just had their ship crash on Quintessa.
unlabelledView post →Hot Rod/Rodimus gladly accepts becoming the new Autobot leader, but it's not something he seeks out at any point in the film. It's not a goal he works towards. Galvatron on the other hand achieves many things - kills Optimus, gets the Matrix (briefly), even becomes free from Unicron.
unlabelledView post →I don’t think I’ve seen that film since I was a kid and yet “out of the way, Hot Rod!” is indelibly seared into my brain
unlabelledView post →Id argue its the best written part of the film! Optimus dying and leaving Hot Rod with the guilt immediately primes him to be so much more relatable because that ties the children's feeling of loss with his! It makes his heroes journey so much more satisfying
unlabelledView post →Hot Rod is de beste film ooit
unlabelledView post →Almost-as-cool moment: Hot Rod later in that same film being told he would be held in contempt of the Quintesson court and replying "I have nothing but contempt for this court"
unlabelledView post →Two shows in one day just wasn't enough at Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend so we snuck out in between shows to film a little version of Hal Singer's "Hot Rod" amongst the amazing classic cars with guest Takao on sax!
unlabelledView post →My first feature film Hot Rod Girls Save the World - Choppertown Moto Movies share.google/9CqxJhGfe6Lf...
unlabelledView post →Thank you! I agree with Patrick on that score too. (Used particularly effectively in the film Hot Rod.)
unlabelledView post →Eeyup... to my utter lack of surprise, my new SS86 Hot Rod has "The Transformers: Le Film" on the top flap like the others that have been reported. And every other instance on the box is "The Movie". It's just funny.
unlabelledView post →watching Hot Rod tonight, which I cant believe I have never seen before. 10/10 film
unlabelledView post →I mean, the funniest example is the film Hot Rod, where Rod decides he’s going to do an epic motorcycle stunt to raise funds for his stepdad’s heart surgery so he can finally earn his respect in a fight. …it’s a deeply ridiculous film on purpose. I love it.
unlabelledView post →I unironically listen to half the songs every day, it's my second favorite Andy Samberg film, second only to the stupidity that is Hot Rod.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Hot Rod 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Comedy) (iMDB) 6.9 Cast: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, Isla Fisher, Sissy Spacek
unlabelledView post →The Transformers: The Movie 40th Anniversary MDLX Hot Rod (1986 Movie Edition) Action Figure www.bigbadtoystore.com/product/tran...
unlabelledView post →I know it’s probably not what most people think of when they think of him, but he was so effing funny in Hot Rod. I can’t believe he agreed to do that movie, but he is hilarious.
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unlabelledView post →2026 movie watches and rewatches Movie #484 Hot Rod Synopsis: Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble is preparing for the jump of his life - to clear fifteen buses to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation. Rewatch My Rating: 5/5
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