Transformers
An ancient duel between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.
21 October 1948, Portland, Oregon, USA
24 August 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 July 1941, Montreal, Québec, Canada
4 June 1961, San Diego, California, USA
27 October 1955, Everett, Washington, USA
23 December 1963, New York, USA
5 October 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 December 1971, McAllen, Texas, USA
6 April 1969, Venice, California, USA
26 August 1975, Florence, South Carolina, USA
20 January 1969, USA
23 December 1963, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
25 July 1989, Flint, Michigan, USA
24 December 1970, Puerto Rico
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 March 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 November 1965, Longview, Washington, USA
December 15, 2009
Bay, of course, can't resists temptation to use as many explosions in the film as possibleAugust 27, 2009
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 movieFebruary 02, 2009
Transformers is a rollicking, rousing experience.July 14, 2011
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 16, 2007
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.November 03, 2012
Transformers leaves very few blocks left un-busted.July 11, 2007
With Transformers, director Michael Bay has once again claimed the year's top honors for loud, stupid filmmaking.October 18, 2008
For the bot-neutral rest of us, two-and-a-half hours of mostly incoherent special effects may be a bit much.March 21, 2011
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.July 31, 2007
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 11, 2007
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.June 23, 2009
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.