Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

All Critics (243) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (88) | Rotten (157) | DVD (8)

The third outing for a herd of toys that should have stayed in their boxes.

July 18, 2011 Full Review | Comments (46)

Anthony Lane

New Yorker

Top Critic

Despite its manifest improvements, there is something so sour and unpleasant about the new film that it left me almost nostalgic for the innocent idiocies of its predecessor.

July 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (12)

Christopher Orr

The Atlantic

Top Critic

At 157 minutes, "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" isn't just a movie. It's a sentence.

July 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (62)

John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

For good or ill, Bay is the soul of a new machine, the poet of post-human cinema, the CEO of Hollywood's military-entertainment complex.

June 30, 2011 Full Review | Comments (42)

Richard Corliss

TIME Magazine

Top Critic

Marveling at its grotesque gigantism doesn't make this two-and-a-half-hour-long movie any less dull.

June 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (36)

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

If you're going to make a movie in which some of your stars are animated toys and much of downtown Chicago is reduced to rubble, this is the way to do it: shamelessly, with no expense spared and no cliche avoided.

June 29, 2011 Full Review | Comments (48)

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon is one of the best blockbuster I've seen in years. No other action film can compare to what is undoubtedly Michael Bay's magnum opus, this is the film to beat this summer!

March 2, 2013 Full Review

Matt Joseph

We Got This Covered

By a thin margin, the best film in the series. Funnier. But that's not saying much.

January 1, 2013 Full Review

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Easily transformed into the worst summer blockbuster of the year.

November 9, 2012 Full Review

Jeffrey Lyles

Lyles' Movie Files

Despite an over-long and underwhelming build-up, the final hour of Dark of the Moon is an all-out action fest with some of the coolest visuals ever put to film.

October 2, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kendrick

ScreenRant

If you like mindless spectacle, this is undoubtedly the frontrunner so far this year.

September 28, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

[Bay], having seemingly learned nothing from the last film, allows just about all of the same mistakes to be made yet again.

September 20, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Intensely juvenile, casually sexist, and blatantly stupid in ways that few if any over the age of "T for Teen" or bereft of a Y chromosome could enjoy. [3D Blu-ray]

April 13, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews

Remarkable action set pieces and stunning effects, but this third outing of Transformers is sometimes just as clunky and irritating as the second.

January 29, 2012 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

This is Michael Bay back on form... although, alas, that's a phrase destined to make more sensitive cinephiles gag.

December 6, 2011 Full Review

Dave Bradley

SFX Magazine

Loud and long, this 3rd installment boasts a better plot and impressive CGI while maintaining its juvenile level of comedy - the target audience will likely love it.

October 20, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

You either take it on faith that the succession of scenes and exposition actually add up to a story and enjoy the ride, or sink 2 1/2 hours into the most expensive abstract disaster film ever made.

September 28, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

There's only so much you can do with a toy. (Blu-ray Combo edition)

September 24, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...it takes a certain talent to create as much action as Bay does without generating an ounce of excitement.

September 24, 2011 Full Review | Comments (7)

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Transformers 3 is the archetype of a summer blockbuster-all explosions and chest-swelling bravado and snarky sidekicks and big guns and hot chicks and hero shots.

September 2, 2011 Full Review | Comments (4)

Lisa Ann Cockrel

Christianity Today

Better than the second film in the franchise, this film is still as hollow and unimportant as its predecessor.

August 16, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

• 1. Optimus Prime: We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then came the war between the Autobots, who fought for freedom and the Decepticons, who dreamt of tyranny. Overmatched and outnumbered, our defeat was all but certain. But in the wars final days, one Autobot ship escaped the battle. It was carrying a secret cargo, which would have changed our planet's fate. A desperate mission, our final hope...
  – Submitted by Nick S (4 months ago)
• 1. Black Ops NASA Technician (1969): We are not alone after all, are we?
  2. Buzz Aldrin: No sir, we're not alone.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (5 months ago)
• 1. Sentinel Prime: Now, let the slaves of Earth learn the true power of their masters. Seal off the city.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Sentinel Prime: So lost you are, Optimus. On Cybertron we were gods, and here they call us machines! Let the humans serve us, or perish!
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Sergeant Epps: You're gonna get yourself killed, Sam. Is that what you want? Is that what you want? You came all the way out here to get yourself killed. If you go in there, that's if she's even still alive, there's no way you're gonna make it out.
  2. Sam Witwicky: What do you suggest I do?
  3. Sergeant Epps: It's over. I'm sorry, but it's over.
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)
• 1. Bruce: Why is Shantel using what appears to be a red cup from the red floor when we are on the yellow floor? It is a visual and therefore a viseral betrayal...Stop it!
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)