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Transformers (2007)

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Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 218
Fresh: 124 | Rotten: 94

While believable characters are hard to come by in Transformers, the effects are staggering and the action is exhilarating.

68

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 13

While believable characters are hard to come by in Transformers, the effects are staggering and the action is exhilarating.

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Movie Info

The interstellar battle between the Autobots and Decepticons rains destruction down on planet Earth as director Michael Bay adapts Hasbro and Takara's popular Transformers franchise into a big-budget, live-action summer tentpole extravaganza in this ambitious sci-fi action feature starring Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Bernie Mac, John Turturro, Jon Voight, and, of course, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Long ago, on the planet of Cybertron, a massive, powerful alien race divided into two factions,

PG-13, 2 hr. 20 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman

Oct 16, 2007

$319.0M

Dreamworks

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Critic Reviews for Transformers

All Critics (218) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (132) | 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 Source: NPR.org | Comment (1)
Bob Mondello
NPR.org
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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 Source: New York Post | Comments (21)
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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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 (7)
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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With Transformers, director Michael Bay has once again claimed the year's top honors for loud, stupid filmmaking.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comments (27)
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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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 Source: Associated Press | Comment
David Germain
Associated Press
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Not a movie, just one gigantic commercial for Hasbro.

July 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comments (3)
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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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 Source: Digital Spy | Comment
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 Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
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 Source: Draxblog Movie Reviews | Comment
Dragan Antulov
Draxblog Movie Reviews Source: 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 Source: CinePassion | 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 Source: I.E. Weekly | Comments (7)
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Transformers is a rollicking, rousing experience.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly | Comment
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 Source: The Scorecard Review | Comment (1)
Jeff Bayer
The Scorecard Review

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

August 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
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 Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
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 Source: Paste Magazine | Comments (17)
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 Source: Watertown Daily Times | Comments (13)
Adam Tobias
Watertown Daily Times

Toys come to life in big, boomy explosion fest.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Cynthia Fuchs
Common Sense Media

Although it strives to appeal to the whole family, it winds up emerging as a kiddie flick on steroids - a big-budget, effects heavy, feature film version of a Saturday morning cartoon.

July 7, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment (1)
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter

Transformers is the best action movie I have seen since The Matrix.

May 24, 2008 Full Review Source: WJFK-FM (CBS Radio) | Comments (35)
Kevin McCarthy
WJFK-FM (CBS Radio)
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Although it most certainly isn't, Transformers reminded me of an old comic book being turned into a movie. Which are usually completely effects driven, stupid, forgettable, silly action movies. The difference between them and Transformers is that the action actually excites in this over hyped robot porno.

November 9, 2011
Michael M.
Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

Michael Bay takes the helm for this big budget live-action adaptation of some of the coolest toys from my childhood. It's one race of robot aliens who can transform into various vehicles and things against another, and it's on Earth and humans get involved, and, despite being forced does try to make things a bit more

July 4, 2007
cosmo313
Chris Weber

Super Reviewer

Transformers Quotes

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    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 Friso C (3 months ago)
    1. Trent: [grinning] Yeah? What's it about? Sucking at sports?
    2. Sam Witwicky: [laughs a little] No, it's about the link between brain damage and football.
    – Submitted by Akheel K (4 months ago)
    1. Sheriff: 'Cause I promise you I will bust you up.
    2. Sam Witwicky: [whispers] Are you on drugs?
    – Submitted by Akheel K (4 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 Lou Z (5 months ago)
    1. Agent Simmons: Hey, you want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro? That's cool.
    – Submitted by Lou Z (5 months ago)

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