With the styles of acting, comedy, film technique, make-up, lighting and effects that befit the period, it's almost beside the point to ask whether Dr Plonk is a good movie. It seems just as important to judge the film on the merit of it being an authentic movie.

It almost becomes something Quentin Tarantino would remake as a cult classic (four male friends suffer anal rape by filthy hayseeds before their surviving number fights back with bows and arrows).

The plot is a throwaway concern featuring another Macguffin that everybody wants to find. An opening coda explains how the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons have been on Earth for milennia, hidden among us after having built a huge machine designed to destroy the sun for their power source (no, it makes no sense to us either).