Movie Review for Transformers

Summary: The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (7/0)
            See Transformers. But don't expect anything more than a big, dumb summer action film with hot chi...

By Rebecca Murray of About.com (8/0)
            Transformers delivers the thrills we've been waiting for all year long.

By John Wirt of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (7/0)
            When it's not too far over the top or redundant, Transformers is a fun summer-movie ride.

By Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (7/0)
            Hell may have frozen over. Not only has Michael Bay directed a movie that works, he has directed ...

By Brian Webster of Apollo Guide (8/0)
            This is one fun summer movie. Totally ridiculous. Big and loud. Senseless. Campy and dumb. But gr...

By Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (7/0)
            Although the film can't quite eclipse the glorious Saturday morning cartoon silliness of the 1986...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Philip Martin of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (7/0)
            Michael Bay can build a universe in a bottle. He can install a pump in the tin man's chest.And he...

By David Germain of Associated Press (7/0)
            The action sequences are so turgid it's sometimes hard to tell which 'bot is doing what, but with...

By Bob Longino of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
            Great special effects + Shia LaBeouf - flimsy story = lotsa fun.

By Lori Hoffman of Atlantic City Weekly (7/0)
            ... forgive me if Transformers, the movie, strikes me as rather mechanical.

By Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            Transformers is about as clever as an unplugged blender: Take away the many effects crews who so ...

By Chris Kaltenbach of Baltimore Sun (7/0)
            Citizen Kane, it isn't. But for 140 minutes in the dead of summer, it's a ton of dumb fun.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Paul Arendt of BBC (7/0)
            It's outrageous, stupid fun and you should see it on the biggest screen you can find.

By Danny Minton of Beaumont Journal (8/0)
            It is as corny as it is magnificent and I have to admit that it is the most fun I've had at the m...

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (8/0)
            The effects are put to brilliant use. ...Bay even allows the humans their humanness, too -- elsew...

By Tim Cogshell of Boxoffice Magazine (7/0)
            Director Michael Bay and his ILM team have, in fact, achieved something pretty impressive in the ...

By Fred Topel of Can Magazine (8/0)
            Better than sex.

By Andrea Gronvall of Chicago Reader (7/0)
            Not a movie, just one gigantic commercial for Hasbro.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            In Bay's world, which is more about metal than people, every action sequence must be edited like ...

By Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (7/0)
            What keeps Transformers watchable is LaBeouf and the computerized effects, which are often startl...

By Brandon Fibbs of Christianity Today (7/0)
            An overwhelming and indistinguishable deluge of flying wreckage, sporadic explosions, and gnarled...

By Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (7/0)
            O mais longo anúncio publicitário que já fui obrigado a testemunhar.

By Jules Brenner of Cinema Signals (7/0)
            This director knows his Bay-bots audience as one that will give him all the space and self-indulg...

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
            Transformers isn't just dorky, it's gloriously dorky.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Jeff Otto of cinemaobsession.com (8/0)
            In a season packed with big-budget tentpole flicks, Transformers is the first among them that tru...

By James Rocchi of Cinematical (7/0)
            Transformers is supposedly about robots who turn into cars and back again; what it's really about...

By Scott Weinberg of Cinematical (7/0)
            Flat, loud, flashy spectacle that's been fine-tuned and sanded down to appeal to the widest globa...

By Tom Charity of CNN.com (7/0)
            The illusion is shattered whenever the 'bots start talking or the action stops. Bay tries to glos...

By Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (7/0)
            Indulging in the playground of technology at his disposal, Bay makes Transformers' hugeness perso...

By Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (8/0)
            It's a sickening force-feeding commercial frenzy to sell cars, toys and war in the same breath th...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (7/0)
            Despite the sheer ineptitude of Transformers, there's a crassness behind it that's even more dist...

By Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (7/0)
            You have to appreciate the technical achievements even if the movie as a whole is not something t...

By Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (7/0)
            Even folks who wouldn't know a Transformer from a Teletubby can expect to have a good time at Tra...

By Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons (8/0)
            There's not much under the hood, but 'Transformers' roars with power and style thanks to awe-insp...

By Boo Allen of Denton Record Chronicle (TX) (7/0)
            Big, loud, empty . . . just another dumb Michael Bay movie.

By Mike Pearson of Denver Rocky Mountain News (7/0)
            Transformers is the comic-book movie on steroids, a fusion of sound and fury and sci-fi plotting ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/0)
            Surprisingly, Bay actually subdues his usual, attention-deficit style for this sometimes rewardin...

By N.V. Cooper of E! Online (7/0)
            ...clunky, heartless and boring.

By Michelle Alexandria of Eclipse Magazine (8/0)
            This film is soulless and heartless but at the same time it's a lot of fun and contains a lot of ...

By David Foucher of EDGE Boston (7/1)
            The film suffers from a second-half degeneration into CGI battles devoid of human interest - but ...

By Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            Has Hell actually frozen over? Are pigs now taking to the sky? I only ask because Michael Bay has...

By Dan Lybarger of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            To be honest, it's easy to forgive a lot in this movie because the 12-year-old in me is absolutel...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            One of the stupidest movies on record. But hey, it's also, you know, really, really fun.

By Dawn Taylor of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            Considering that the whole movie is being sold as nothing more than a CGI version of Rock 'Em Soc...

By Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            There is no scope to Bay's big city battle, no one WOW moment that will have people talking and n...

By Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            A full-out assault on the senses that confuses bludgeoning a viewer with noisy spectacle with act...

By Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
            Reaction in Taormina Fest signals popular franchise, and artistically what might have been like a...

By Ian Nathan of Empire Magazine (7/0)
            The script may have rubbery legs, but the action is rock-hard. The surprise is the lightness of t...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            Bay, at heart, isn't a fantasist; he's a literal-minded maestro of demolition. But then, that ser...

By Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            LaBeouf has the hefty job of single-handedly injecting the action with personality, and he brings...

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            It's like spending a day at the state fair: a little bit of actual entertainment, a lot of embarr...

By Kam Williams of EURWeb (7/0)
            Gets this critic's seal of approval as another overblown Michael Bay extravaganza, for it succeed...

By Anton Bitel of Eye for Film (7/0)
            ...high-octane nonsense for those who suffer from permanently arrested development. The fact that...

By Nathaniel Rogers of Film Experience (7/0)
            When you get a good view you'll probably be thrilled. But the thrills vanish with the next quick ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (8/0)
            Like so many of Bay's films, Transformers suffers from a form of cinematic prostatitis.

By Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International (7/0)
            If you grew up imagining life with Ratchet, Ironhide, Bonecrusher and all their robot friends, Tr...

By Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (7/0)
            To paraphrase Montgomery Burns: I'm no art critic, but I know what I hate...and I didn't hate Tra...

By Sean O'Connell of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            the bloated mid-section of Bay's overlong extravaganza (clocking in at a punishing 144 minutes) w...

By Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/1)
            Hated the robots and their funny voices, hated the humans, and the cereal box story.

By Brent Simon of FilmStew.com (7/0)
            Both visually stunning and utterly shrug-inducing, Transformers begs the question: can a live-act...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
            [G]loriously, emphatically meaningless and cheerfully, genially brainless. It's like a big dumb d...

By Rob Vaux of Flipside Movie Emporium (7/0)
            No one presumes to apply artistic criteria to the sight of a high-rise being demolished. Why shou...

By Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (8/0)
            This is made by the fans, for the fans. Outsiders need not apply.

By Jeffrey Lyles of Gazette (MD) (7/0)
            one of the most highly-anticipated summer blockbuster films aspires more to be a unintentional co...

By Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
            A sort of Ambien/No-Doz cocktail likely to send all but fanboy brains into self-protective shutof...

By Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (7/0)
            Kids may just love this film. But for adults, there's not much of a story. And what little story ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
            Bay and an army of visual designers have successfully re-imagined a photorealistic world in which...

By Amy Biancolli of Houston Chronicle (7/0)
            In this tricked-out retake on the much-loved contraptions, director Michael Bay brings his usual ...

By Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (7/0)
            If you love playing with action figures, Transformers is made for you. Otherwise, this loud and r...

By Kevin Williamson of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            It's as juvenile as it exhilarating, as staggeringly-stupid as it is keenly well-crafted.

By Bob Bloom of Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (7/0)
            Transformers is long and loud and should not be ... compared with some dramatic work. Just let it...

By James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/0)
            Admirers of great special effects... will find plenty to appreciate. ... (But) for every truly fu...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By David Kaplan of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (7/0)
            Who needs all that noise??

By Jeanne Kaplan of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (7/0)
            Do we really need an action film in the middle of summer to remind us how "good" some Americans c...

By Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
            works for more than just the built-in fan base who grew up on the old cartoon series and the toys...

By Beth Accomando of KPBS.org (7/0)
            This is a Transformers movie, so why do the humans take up so much of the time, story and heroics...

By Luke Y. Thompson of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
            Above all, Transformers is the biggest-budget kaiju movie of all time...one of those Godzilla Ver...

By Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (7/0)
            A rocking action movie with some campy humor that succeeds despite the drawbacks of being overly ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (7/0)
            Bay's notion of excitement is to smash up bunches of stuff on screen, with no rhyme or reason, no...

By Glenn Whipp of Los Angeles Daily News (7/0)
            An overly long, repetitive jumble of a movie that isn't nearly as much fun as it should be.

By Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times (7/0)
            Though he has a way with CGI toys and action set pieces, director Bay does not have a noticeable ...

By Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
            Probably the worst computer-generated-special-effects-driven summer blockbuster to ever disgrace ...

By Pete Hammond of Maxim (7/0)
            It's the toys 'r us in this awesome sci-fi blockbuster. It's bound to produce several inferior se...

By Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (7/0)
            The most surprising thing about Michael Bay's much-anticipated, blockbuster-bound Transformers is...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (7/0)
            Transformers isn't a movie, it's a software program, into which quirky personality has been inser...

By Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
            Ridiculously awesome (or awesomely ridiculous?) sequences of mass destruction, lost in a lot of u...

By Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (7/0)
            Michael Bay doesn't merely pander to the lowest common denominator, he redefines it by lowering i...

By David Poland of Movie City News (8/0)
            Merde that meets the eye.

By Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/0)
            The surprising transformation here is not from machines into enormous robots but from a modest Sa...

By Elizabeth Weitzman of New York Daily News (7/0)
            There is so much action packed into every second of Transformers that by the time it's over, you ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Lou Lumenick of New York Post (7/0)
            Compared to the labyrinthine plots of some of this summer's other blockbusters, this one is posit...

By Armond White of New York Press (7/0)
            Too bad the filmmakers don’t let these bots take over the spectacle.

By Manohla Dargis of New York Times (7/0)
            ...a movie of epically assaultive noise and nonsense.

By Manohla Dargis of New York Times (7/0)
            A movie of epically assaultive noise and nonsense.

By Anthony Lane of New Yorker (8/0)
            Bay's movie is the grandest proof so far that, when it comes to movie characterization, flesh and...

By Michael A. Smith of Nolan's Pop Culture Review (7/0)
            ...in doing so, Bay has crafted one of the best action movies of all time.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (7/0)
            Whatever chance Transformers might have been a decent movie disappeared the moment Bay was hired ...

By Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
            One silly, overblown movie, skillful but bombastic eye-candy for the adolescent-minded, with the ...

By Tasha Robinson of Onion AV Club (7/0)
            No one should be expecting much from Michael Bay except fast pacing and decently choreographed ex...

By Mark Sells of Oregon Herald (7/0)
            A mad rush of blood to the adolescent head.

By Marc Mohan of Oregonian (7/0)
            A fairly rip-roaring piece of rock'em, sock'em robot mayhem that's more entertaining than it real...

By Roger Moore of Orlando Sentinel (7/0)
            We knew it would be dumb. But we had no idea it would be so much dumb fun.

                         Reviews of Transformers
By John Thomason of Orlando Weekly (7/0)
            Transformers sinks to the level of ’50s B-movie sermonizing and never fully recovers.

By Wesley Lovell of Oscar Guy (7/0)
            For a Michael Bay action film, Transformers was surprisingly entertaining and not as heavy handed...

By Fiore Mastracci of Outtakes With Fiore (7/1)
            One of the few summer blockbusters to live up to its hype.

By Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (7/0)
            There's less to this picture than meets the eye.

By Tyler Hanley of Palo Alto Weekly (7/0)
            As a fan of the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon and Hasbro toys the film is based on, I was sadden...

By Mike Sage of Peterborough This Week (7/0)
            Transformers is in a stellar class of seamless FX films populated by genre classics like Jurassic...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (7/0)
            Everyone in the likable cast grasps the spirit of this grand, cheesy adventure, which Bay present...

By Carrie Rickey of Philadelphia Inquirer (7/0)
            While Bay succeeds in creating a seamless mix of computer-generated effects with live-action, the...

By Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (7/0)
            Most directors would be content to retire with Armaggedon as the stupidest film on their resume. ...

By Bill Gibron of PopMatters (8/0)
            In a summer that's seen underperforming tre-quels and more than its fair share of warmed over sam...

By Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (7/0)
            Declaring his absolute judgment and the intrinsic virtue of bringing democracy to all planets, Op...

By Eric Alt of Premiere Magazine (7/0)
            Grab some popcorn and make a pit stop, then sit back and enjoy it. You signed up for a movie abou...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Rob Humanick of Projection Booth (7/0)
            Transformers is smart enough to know how incredibly stupid it is.

By James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (7/0)
            There are humans in Transformers, but Bay treats them with his trademark mixture of indifference ...

By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            Is it a commercial or an action movie? You could go either way with "Transformers."

By David N. Butterworth of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            It's got action, romance, incredible CGI, convincing performances, a loud and lively musical scor...

By Karina Montgomery of rec.arts.movies.reviews (7/0)
            Horrible! Hey, I didn't poop on your childhood. Michael Bay did.

By David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (7/0)
            Logic suggests that even the most inept filmmaker would have a hard time turning a movie about en...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Pam Grady of Reel.com (7/0)
            A high-octane symphony of machine battling machine and stuff blowing to pieces.

By Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (8/0)
            Director Michael Bay, never known for subtlety, transforms the popular 1980's toy line into a lou...

By Jeffrey Chen of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (7/0)
            Bay's direction ultimately bothered me less than the messy screenplay. As an old-school fan, I wa...

By James Berardinelli of ReelViews (7/0)
            ...essentially one long product placement.

By Forrest Hartman of Reno Gazette-Journal (7/0)
            A big, dumb, special effects-laden action flick.

By Bob Grimm of Reno News and Review (7/0)
            Okay, I've been reminded that I don't like Michael Bay's directing style. That's the last reminde...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Mike Ward of Richmond.com (6/1)
            Bay's best effort by far. The robot thespians are better actors than the cast of Armageddon and t...

By James O'Ehley of SA Movie & DVD Magazine (7/0)
            Be sure to have some headache pills handy when you go see Transformers. While it may not necessar...

By Carla Meyer of Sacramento Bee (7/0)
            Cars turn into robots. So do trucks. And planes. If you need more to recommend Transformers, ther...

By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            [D]irector Michael Bay makes a wise move: He comes out with a movie that simply doesn't have to b...

By Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (7/0)
            After Bay piles on a dozen [action] scenes..., your brain may feel pummelled. Not that your brain...

By Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News (8/0)
            When the humans slow things down, and they do, Bay cranks up the Gobots (excuse me, Transformers)...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By James Hebert of San Diego Union-Tribune (7/0)
            It's a Hasbro ad. It's a Chevy commercial. It's a pitch for Homeland Security. (A pretty ineffect...

By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Sure, the action is over the top, but the people in charge seem completely aware that every scene...

By Peter Hartlaub of San Francisco Chronicle (7/0)
            Transformers is way better than anyone could have expected from Michael Bay, the director who gav...

By Bruce Newman of San Jose Mercury News (7/0)
            As a movie, Transformers is mostly muscle car, but it has enough of a brain under its hood to kno...

By Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers.com (7/0)
            It...fulfills every teenage boy's fantasy to make out with a hot girl on your talking Camaro whil...

By Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (7/0)
            a kick-butt action film with nearly non-stop action and amazing computer-generated special effect...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Sean Axmaker of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
            ... a screeching metal, smash-and-crash, extreme-action movie lover's dream come true. It's also ...

By Tom Keogh of Seattle Times (7/0)
            An unexpectedly witty and exciting movie quick on its feet.

By Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (7/0)
            The quintessential big, loud, dumb summer action movie, this nonstop thrill ride is thunderously ...

By Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (8/0)
            Transformers is so hot and bothered over its reassembling robots that it can barely muster the en...

By Dana Stevens of Slate (7/0)
            The whole movie has a lightness of tone, an affection for its own cheesiness.

By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality and Practice (7/0)
            A slam-bang sci-fi action drama with exploding cars, razzle-dazzle battle sequences, a bling-wear...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Nick Rogers of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (7/0)
            Given the combined involvements of Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg, call it a Ka-Blamblin produc...

By John Venable of Supercala.com (7/0)
            Fun, but a bit too serious.

By Angela Baldassarre of Sympatico.ca (7/0)
            There is so much action packed in every frame of this bombastic blockbuster, that the ludicrous p...

By Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            A melting pot of astonishing ineptitude. Amazing, how hundreds of millions of dollars can go into...

By Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/0)
            For some, the movie went on a little long, but true fans didn't mind. (You can tell the true fans...

By Richard Corliss of TIME Magazine (7/0)
            Divorced from reality, even movie reality, Transformers becomes an action film in traction. Its r...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Wendy Ide of Times [UK] (7/0)
            Films directed by Michael Bay are usually like being shouted at by a halfwit for two and a half h...

By Peter Howell of Toronto Star (8/0)
            The visual effects are marvellous, [and] the acting is better than it needs to be in a film of th...

By Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            The average Hollywood action picture is aimed at 12-year-olds of all ages, but Michael Bay and St...

By Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
            It's long and loud and everything about it is big: from the massive stunts, the pounding orchestr...

By Claudia Puig of USA Today (8/0)
            Though it's at least 20 minutes too long and uneven dramatically, the acting is sharp, and it fea...

By Todd McCarthy of Variety (8/0)
            If it's true that there's an 8-year-old boy inside every man, Transformers is just the ticket to ...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (7/0)
            The effects are jaw-droppingly good and if all you want is giant robots blowing stuff up, then Tr...

By Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (7/0)
            it's the transformation of robots that will blow your mind ... Add that to the eye-popping robot ...

By Desson Thomson of Washington Post (7/0)
            Transformers has some of the best action sequences you'll see all summer.

By Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (7/0)
            Maybe if... you spent a lot of time playing with the toys you'd instantly recognize the robots. F...

By Susan Granger of www.susangranger.com (8/0)
            For sci-fi excitement and escapist, fast-paced action, you can't beat this. It's spectacularly lo...

By John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            At one point, Bumblebee essentially urinates on an annoying federal officer. It's hard to believe...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Bill Muller of Arizona Republic (7/1) No reference
            You'll find yourself rooting for computer-generated robots that magically transform into cars, tr...

By Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (6/1) No reference
            So, here's a surprise. The summer's first blockbuster action film worthy of its hype has nothing ...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (4/3) No reference
            It's goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to real...

By Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times (4/3) No reference
            It's goofy fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only to real...

By Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (6/2) No reference
            In Bay's world, which is more about metal than people, every action sequence must be edited like ...

By Devin Faraci of CHUD (7/1) No reference
            Transformers is probably the Rosetta Stone of Bay's career. All of his favorite elements are here...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Todd Gilchrist of IGN Movies (7/1) No reference
            Michael Bay's best film to date offers plenty of fun, but not much more than meets the eye.

By James Hart of Kansas City Star (6/1) No reference
            The die-hard old fans should be happy.

By Josh Bell of Las Vegas Weekly (6/1) No reference
            Only those undemanding inner 8-year-olds are likely to find anything here to appreciate.

By Matt Pais of Metromix.com (7/1) No reference
            All you can do is grin, shake your head and let Transformers steamroll you into having a blast.

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (6/1) No reference
            It's a gearhead's dream come true, with cool robots, hot girls, big explosions and broad jokes.

By Michael Elliott of Movie Parables (6/1) No reference
            Loud, explosive, fast-moving, mindless entertainment aimed at the mentality of an allowance-recei...

                         Reviews of Transformers
By Lisa Rose of Newark Star-Ledger (6/1) No reference
            A dizzying summer adventure, Transformers is a film to worship for its set pieces and chastise fo...

By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (7/1) No reference
            Director Michael Bay appears to have neither a sense of timing nor an awareness that, as a movie ...

By Brian Tallerico of UnderGround Online (7/1) No reference
            Every time Transformers threatens to collapse under the weight of its ridiculous plot and boring ...

By Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
            I came away convinced I'd had the most sheer, loud fun of any blockbuster in a summer that has de...

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