Transformers
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 3, 2007
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AkashVijayJan 19, 2015
After watching Transformers, I must pay homage to director Michael Bay for sharing his recreational interests with the rest of the world. Until this moment, I knew little about his fierce fervour towards the field of alchemy. But now IAfter watching Transformers, I must pay homage to director Michael Bay for sharing his recreational interests with the rest of the world. Until this moment, I knew little about his fierce fervour towards the field of alchemy. But now I perceive him as a perfectionist. He has somehow turned human excrement into film.
Transformers is a 2 and 1/2 hour long video game that the audience isn't allowed to play. On the IMDB trivia page it says 'The most amazing thing about Transformers is that they set the release date without a completed script'. I beg to differ. The most amazing thing about Transformers is that they finished filming without a completed script. Transformers is contrived, convoluted and incoherent on so many levels that most would call it unworthy of serious examination. Transformers isn't only critic-proof, it resists serious criticism. You might as well analyse a beach ball. The immoderate overload of CGI, ugly set-pieces and mind numbing action made it impossible for me to shut my eyes and dream of a better movie. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. Apparently Michael Bay was inspired by David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash. And now that I think about it, I can see the mild resemblance. Both movies are like watching automobile accidents. Only one was intended to be. Add it all up, and what you've got here is a waste of good electricity. I'm not talking about the electricity between the actors. I'm talking about the current to the projector.… Expand
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EpilepticDec 7, 2014
After watching Transformers, I must pay homage to director Michael Bay for sharing his recreational interests with the rest of the world. Until this moment, I knew little about his fierce fervour towards the field of alchemy. But now IAfter watching Transformers, I must pay homage to director Michael Bay for sharing his recreational interests with the rest of the world. Until this moment, I knew little about his fierce fervour towards the field of alchemy. But now I perceive him as a perfectionist. He has somehow turned human excrement into film.
Transformers is a 2 and 1/2 hour long video game that the audience isn't allowed to play. On the IMDB trivia page it says 'The most amazing thing about Transformers is that they set the release date without a completed script'. I beg to differ. The most amazing thing about Transformers is that they finished filming without a completed script. Transformers is contrived, convoluted and incoherent on so many levels that most would call it unworthy of serious examination. Transformers isn't only critic-proof, it resists serious criticism. You might as well analyse a beach ball. The immoderate overload of CGI, ugly set-pieces and mind numbing action made it impossible for me to shut my eyes and dream of a better movie. It's not merely bad; it's unpleasant in a hostile way. Apparently Michael Bay was inspired by David Cronenberg's 1996 film Crash. And now that I think about it, I can see the mild resemblance. Both movies are like watching automobile accidents. Only one was intended to be. Add it all up, and what you've got here is a waste of good electricity. I'm not talking about the electricity between the actors. I'm talking about the current to the projector.… Expand
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CinemaSinsMay 8, 2015
When it comes to Transformers, I have no ax to grind, pro or con. For me, it's just another loud, plot-deficient summer motion picture. In this case, nostalgia doesn't grip me - I'm too old to have played with the gadgets or watched theWhen it comes to Transformers, I have no ax to grind, pro or con. For me, it's just another loud, plot-deficient summer motion picture. In this case, nostalgia doesn't grip me - I'm too old to have played with the gadgets or watched the cartoon. I'm sure many fanboys (and girls) will be delighted by what Michael Bay has done to update the Transformers mythos (basically, that means incorporating A-level special effects and blowing lots of things up). On the other hand, those with no particular emotional attachment to the toys and their multimedia offshoots may dislike this movie as much as I did.

Thus far, the summer of 2007 has been full of very loud, very unsatisfying action movies. Transformers tops them all - it's louder, flashier, and more hollow than anything else out there. At 135 minutes, it drags - sometimes painfully so. The movie is top-heavy with exposition, and the only decent action scenes occur in the final 25 minutes. Despite an epileptic camera, those sequences are impressive from a special effects point-of-view, but they aren't exciting. That's because the characters are so poorly developed and the Transformers so singularly uninteresting that the question of who wins or loses doesn't matter. All the effort behind Transformers went into making the robots look cool; nothing went into developing a compelling storyline. Even the headline bout between Optimus Prime and Megatron is pedestrian - two big metallic monsters slugging it out while the camera spins around them as if out of control. It's kind of reminiscent of the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots going at it.

If the dialogue is anything to go by, Bay has a sense of humor. Not only does he take a moment to poke fun at one of his earlier hit movies, but he allows so many howlingly bad lines to be spoken that the level of self-parody has to be intentional. Transformers is a jumble of the good, the bad, and the ugly, with the latter two categories outweighing the former. The film has a lot of nice touches (such as the opening attack in Qatar, where there is a sense of danger, and the John Hughes-inspired introduction of Sam), but the meat of the story is plodding, recycled sci-fi drivel. That, I suppose, is what happens when a major motion picture is based on a 20-plus year old toy phenomenon.

Transformers is so belabored that it makes Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End seem like a masterpiece of pacing. It makes that "classic" midsummer alien invasion movie, Independence Day, seem like a template for inventive plotting and solid character development. Even by Michael Bay standards, this movie is vapid. Yes, there are plenty of explosions, but those are a dime-a-dozen these days; even Discovery Channel's Mythbusters has them. Transformers isn't clean, big-budget fun; it's clean, big-budget tedium. For Transformers fans, I suppose this is a dream motion picture. For everyone else, it's a nightmare.… Expand
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MiniMovieManiacFeb 6, 2019
This movie may have thought to be fun in 2007, but it hasn't aged well and is as bad as the entire series under Michael Bay. From terrible characters to dialogue sounding like a 12-year-old write, this movie doesn't and will never hold upThis movie may have thought to be fun in 2007, but it hasn't aged well and is as bad as the entire series under Michael Bay. From terrible characters to dialogue sounding like a 12-year-old write, this movie doesn't and will never hold up for the years to come. I hate this movie and the entire series as a whole and it was painful to watch this entire series be around as long as it was under Michael Bay.… Expand
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fredthepickleJun 27, 2019
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Dungeon00XNov 23, 2019
Being a huge fan of the 1986 film, I felt obligated to see this new movie. I regret going to that theater. Somehow we all bought into the hype for it, despite the director's apparent fetishes. Michael Bay, the man who practically copyrightedBeing a huge fan of the 1986 film, I felt obligated to see this new movie. I regret going to that theater. Somehow we all bought into the hype for it, despite the director's apparent fetishes. Michael Bay, the man who practically copyrighted explosions, gives us 3 hours of product placement, vaguely relevant references and rampant perversion. I looked at it in 2007 like a sub-par movie, now I look at it with disgust.… Expand
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ObicriticMay 18, 2022
Watching this movie again in 2022 has made me realize that this is one of the dumbest movies ever made - catering to the lowest common denominator and showcasing every cheap trick possible. I love the transformers - I grew up on them - andWatching this movie again in 2022 has made me realize that this is one of the dumbest movies ever made - catering to the lowest common denominator and showcasing every cheap trick possible. I love the transformers - I grew up on them - and this movie has absolutely NOTHING to do with them aside from co-opting the original voice of Optimus Prime. This is not a movie - it's an extended ad for american nationalism and their bloated war machine. It is exploitative of women and it blatantly stereotypes anyone who isn't a white male. Trying to rewatch this now was such a loathsome experience I actually threw the disc out my window and into the alley so that it can rest amongst the other trash where it belongs. I will give credit to some of the humour peppered throughout the film and yes the visuals were impressive , but those can't save this film. The dialogue is embarrassingly poor , the writers clearly spent more time on military jargon that actual character dialogue. This movie is nothing but a big dumb ad to encourage white kids to join the military and it should be buried and forgotten. hopefully someday someone makes a real transformers movie where we get to see our beloved autobots and decepeticons as they are meant to be - not the swirling cg mess that they made them into in this film. long live the transformers - may they be handed over to a director who knows how to make movies.… Expand
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manaadeJan 13, 2022
This movie is crazy, but it has so many shortcomings. The worst of them is that it isn't fun!
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GuzmaNn131Sep 3, 2023
Película aburridísima. Primero que nada su trama es un cliché tras cliché, la película no tiene sentido, y solo son explosiones y efectos especiales. Sumamente aburrida
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