Transformers (2007)

All Critics (220) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (133) | Rotten (94) | DVD (39)

For the bot-neutral rest of us, two-and-a-half hours of mostly incoherent special effects may be a bit much.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comments (5)

Bob Mondello

NPR.org

Top Critic

I challenge you to name another movie about an alien robot come to save the world while disguised as a yellow Camaro. Isn't it just an intergalactic Herbie the Love Bug?

July 31, 2007 Full Review | Comments (22)

Kyle Smith

New York Post

Top Critic

It's a big, cool, dopey, noisy, non-stop action powerhouse. It's also too long by a half hour and it left my ears ringing, but it's a lot of fun.

July 16, 2007 | Comments (13)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

With Transformers, director Michael Bay has once again claimed the year's top honors for loud, stupid filmmaking.

July 11, 2007 Full Review | Comments (34)

Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

The action sequences are so turgid it's sometimes hard to tell which 'bot is doing what, but with Bay steadily hurling fireworks you won't really pause much to think about that, or about how truly inane the story is.

July 11, 2007 Full Review

David Germain

Associated Press

Top Critic

Not a movie, just one gigantic commercial for Hasbro.

July 11, 2007 Full Review | Comments (14)

Andrea Gronvall

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Transformers leaves very few blocks left un-busted.

November 3, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

hat was delivered will no doubt send merchandising sales spiralling into orbit, but sadly at the cost of countless brain cells popping through after nearly two and a half hours of tedium.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Tony Delgado

Digital Spy

Transformers delivers on its promise of stunning visuals and well-crafted action sequences, but it's not remotely worth the slog it takes to get there. Once the novelty of the robots wears off it's hopelessly insipid.

March 21, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Bay, of course, can't resists temptation to use as many explosions in the film as possible

December 15, 2009 Full Review

Dragan Antulov

Draxblog Movie Reviews

Morphs from Army-enlisting ad to toy ad (on its way passing through a panoply of car ads, computer ads, beer ads) without ever becoming a movie

August 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Thank god the Transformers speak primarily in proper nouns--if they hadn't shouted "Optimus! Megatron!" every time they struck a blow, I'd have no idea what was happening.

June 23, 2009 Full Review | Comments (9)

Amy Nicholson

I.E. Weekly

Transformers is a rollicking, rousing experience.

February 2, 2009 Full Review

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

It is a teenage boy's wet dream. The girls are insanely hot, the lead is awkward/funny and the action sequences are top notch.

September 4, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

Big, dumb, and attractive in this case is good enough. (Blu-ray Edition)

August 18, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...if you are an adult and not already a fan, you may find the movie more than a bit long, loud, and frenzied.

August 18, 2008 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Come to think of it, I was pretty stupid when I was six years old. So is this film.

July 31, 2008 Full Review | Comments (20)

Sean Gandert

Paste Magazine

Director Michael Bay's bigger than life version of the cartoon I grew up loving pretty much ruined one of my favorite childhood memories.

July 23, 2008 Full Review | Comments (14)

Adam Tobias

Watertown Daily Times

Toys come to life in big, boomy explosion fest.

July 16, 2008 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

• 1. Jazz: [jumping on Devastator] Come on, Decepticon punk!
  – Submitted by Nick S (4 months ago)
• 1. Sergeant Lennox: Where's your card?
  2. USAF Tech Sergeant Epps: It's in my back pocket!
  3. Sergeant Lennox: You've got 12 back pockets!
  4. USAF Tech Sergeant Epps: Left cheek! Left cheek! Left cheek!
  – Submitted by William C (5 months ago)
• 1. Optimus Prime: With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.
  – Submitted by joseph j (5 months ago)
• 1. Megatron: Humans don't deserve to live.
  2. Optimus Prime: They deserve to choose for themselves!
  3. Megatron: Then you will die WITH THEM!
  – Submitted by Javier F (6 months ago)
• 1. Optimus Prime: With the All Spark gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new world to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the stars. We are here. We are waiting.
  – Submitted by Typhon Q (8 months ago)
• 1. Optimus Prime: Before time began, there was the Cube. We know not where it comes from, only that it hold the power to create worlds and fill them with life. That is how our race was born. For a time we lived in harmony, but like all great power, some wanted it for good, others for evil. And so began the war. A war that ravaged our planet until it was consumed by death, and the Cube was lost to the far reaches of space. We scattered across the galaxy, hoping to find and rebuild our home. Searching every star, every world. And just when all hope seemed lost, message of a new discovery drew us to an unknown planet called...Earth. But we were already too late.
  – Submitted by Cody H (8 months ago)