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OFCS Rating: 49% Rotten |
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| "...high-octane nonsense for those who suffer from permanently arrested development. The fact that it is a big-budget blockbuster based on a toy really says it all." |
| Eye for Film |
| Anton Bitel |
B | "This is made by the fans, for the fans. Outsiders need not apply." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
4/5 | "In a summer that's seen underperforming tre-quels and more than its fair share of warmed over sameness, Transformers is offering something similar, but in a much more exciting and evocative guise." |
| PopMatters |
| Bill Gibron |
A- | "Has Hell actually frozen over? Are pigs now taking to the sky? I only ask because Michael Bay has achieved the unthinkable: he's directed a crushingly entertaining movie." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
D | "It's a sickening force-feeding commercial frenzy to sell cars, toys and war in the same breath that it pawns itself off as "cinema." This is not cinema. This is acid kool-aid for children. Don't drink it." |
| ColeSmithey.com |
| Cole Smithey |
| "Declaring his absolute judgment and the intrinsic virtue of bringing democracy to all planets, Optimus Prime announces, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." Except, of course, the Decepticons." |
| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
3/5 | "To be honest, it's easy to forgive a lot in this movie because the 12-year-old in me is absolutely in love with all the jaw-dropping transformations. It would have been more rewarding if the adult in me had something to enjoy as well." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dan Lybarger |
3/5 | "One of the stupidest movies on record. But hey, it's also, you know, really, really fun." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A- | "The film suffers from a second-half degeneration into CGI battles devoid of human interest - but it's still a high-speed, energetic, must-see action flick." |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
4/4 | "It's got action, romance, incredible CGI, convincing performances, a loud and lively musical score, way cool robots, and an adorable Chihuahua in a cast. What's not to like?" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
1/4 | "Logic suggests that even the most inept filmmaker would have a hard time turning a movie about enormous fighting robots into an unwatchable and flat-out dull piece of work, but that's precisely what Michael Bay has done with Transformers." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
1/5 | "Considering that the whole movie is being sold as nothing more than a CGI version of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, one kind of expects there to be more rockin' and sockin' and less funny business with Optimus Prime destroying Mom's flower bed." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Dawn Taylor |
C- | "There's less to this picture than meets the eye." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
.5/4 | "A melting pot of astonishing ineptitude. Amazing, how hundreds of millions of dollars can go into making a finished product that doesn't offer one solitary second of wonder, momentum, tension, or authentic emotion." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
C | "It's like spending a day at the state fair: a little bit of actual entertainment, a lot of embarrassingly cheesy attempts at entertainment, and the faint whiff of bull crap everywhere." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
1.5/4 | "There is no scope to Bay's big city battle, no one WOW moment that will have people talking and no more excitement than watching the implosion of an old building on TV." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
2.5/4 | "Once you wade through all the muck, and the comedy, [it] serves up one hell of a climax..." |
| Cinema Crazed |
| Felix Vasquez Jr. |
C | "One silly, overblown movie, skillful but bombastic eye-candy for the adolescent-minded, with the cinematic I.Q. of your average household appliance." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
3/5 | "A slam-bang sci-fi action drama with exploding cars, razzle-dazzle battle sequences, a bling-wearing dog, robots with heart, and a secret agent with silly underwear." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
1.5/4 | "For Transformers fans, I suppose this is a dream motion picture. For everyone else, it's a nightmare." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
1.5/5 | "There are humans in Transformers, but Bay treats them with his trademark mixture of indifference and syrupy sentimentalism." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
| "Be sure to have some headache pills handy when you go see Transformers. While it may not necessarily be the best action movie of the year, it is definitely the loudest and you're sure to walk out of the cinemas with a throbbing headache . . ." |
| SA Movie & DVD Magazine |
| James O'Ehley |
0/4 | "Transformers is supposedly about robots who turn into cars and back again; what it's really about is big Hollywood turning money into stupid and back again" |
| Cinematical |
| James Rocchi |
6/10 | "Click here to read review" |
| sumno.com |
| Jaroslav Vishtaljuk |
4/10 | "Bay's direction ultimately bothered me less than the messy screenplay. As an old-school fan, I was quite disappointed though not necessarily offended." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Jeffrey Chen |
7/10 | "Just a whole tub o’ fun." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
3/4 | "Who better to make the ultimate boys-with-toys movie than the world's most gleefully destructive filmmaker, Michael Bay?" |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
6/10 | "...if you are an adult and not already a fan, you may find the movie more than a bit long, loud, and frenzied." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
4/5 | "click for full review" |
| Movies for the Masses |
| Joseph Proimakis |
| "I loved it." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
.5/5 | "Horrible! Hey, I didn't poop on your childhood. Michael Bay did." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Karina Montgomery |
2.5/4.0 | "... Bay and his team know what we want from a Transformers movie: cool transformations, over-the-top chase sequences, and senseless destruction." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3.5/5 | "See Transformers. But don't expect anything more than a big, dumb summer action film with hot chicks, Shia LaBeouf and a lot of robots blowing things up." |
| Film School Rejects |
| Kevin Carr |
2.5/4 | "Ridiculously awesome (or awesomely ridiculous?) sequences of mass destruction, lost in a lot of uneven dramatic or comedic material." |
| Montreal Film Journal |
| Kevin N. Laforest |
C+ | "Director Michael Bay, never known for subtlety, transforms the popular 1980's toy line into a loud, flashy, goofy mashup of a movie that plays like "Gremlins" as really big hardware." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
2/4 | "The average Hollywood action picture is aimed at 12-year-olds of all ages, but Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg's feature-length come-on for Hasbro's much-loved toy series (and its spin-off cartoons, video games and comics) aims even lower." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
0.5/4 | "Probably the worst computer-generated-special-effects-driven summer blockbuster to ever disgrace the screen." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
| "[G]loriously, emphatically meaningless and cheerfully, genially brainless. It's like a big dumb dog -- you just can't hate it." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3.5/4 | "Hell may have frozen over. Not only has Michael Bay directed a movie that works, he has directed one of the most satisfying films of the summer. This is the cinematic equivalent of washing down a mouthful of sugary candy with a bottle of Mountain Dew." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
B+ | "The surprising transformation here is not from machines into enormous robots but from a modest Saturday morning cartoon based on a line of toys into 2007's most exhilarating summer movie, able to transform audiences of all ages into 12-year-old fanboys." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
1.5/4 | "Transformers is so hot and bothered over its reassembling robots that it can barely muster the energy to develop even an up-front text that makes sense." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
2/5 | "O mais longo anúncio publicitário que já fui obrigado a testemunhar." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
3.5/5 | "To paraphrase Montgomery Burns: I'm no art critic, but I know what I hate...and I didn't hate Transformers." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
1/5 | "A full-out assault on the senses that confuses bludgeoning a viewer with noisy spectacle with actually entertaining them" |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Peter Sobczynski |
4/5 | "The quintessential big, loud, dumb summer action movie, this nonstop thrill ride is thunderously entertaining." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
1/5 | "Punishingly boring." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Rob Gonsalves |
B- | "Transformers is smart enough to know how incredibly stupid it is." |
| Projection Booth |
| Rob Humanick |
C | "No one presumes to apply artistic criteria to the sight of a high-rise being demolished. Why should Transformers be any different?" |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
B | "A rocking action movie with some campy humor that succeeds despite the drawbacks of being overly long and repetitious." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
C | "For the many Transformer fans out there: have fun. For everyone else: see anything, absolutely anything, else." |
| Reeling Reviews |
| Robin Clifford |
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OFCS Rating: 49% Rotten |
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