Transformers

2007 Directed by Michael Bay

Their war. Our world.

Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

Shia LaBeouf Megan Fox Josh Duhamel Tyrese Gibson Rachael Taylor Anthony Anderson Jon Voight John Turturro Michael O'Neill Kevin Dunn Julie White Amaury Nolasco Zack Ward Patrick Mulderrig Luis Echagarruga Michael Trisler Brian Shehan Ashkan Kashanchi Rizwan Manji William Morgan Sheppard C.J. Thomason Bernie Mac Carlos Moreno Jr. Johnny Sanchez John Robinson Travis Van Winkle Peter Jacobson Glenn Morshower Frederic Doss Show All…

Alternative Titles

Τρανσφόρμερς, Transformers 1, ทรานส์ฟอร์เมอร์ส 1 : มหาวิบัติจักรกลสังหารถล่มจักรวาล

science fiction adventure action

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Review by Han Solo ★★★ 3

Shit blows up.
Shit transforms.
Shit gets messy.
And everyone is sweating.
Review by 🎃🔥Mr. Like🔥🎃 ★★★½ 11

Rotten Tomatoes: 58%
Metacritic Metascore: 61
IMDb:
77/100
Release Date: 03 July 2007
Distributor: Dreamworks
Budget: $150M
Worldwide Gross: $709M
OSCAR Nominations: 3
Total Film Awards: 20
Sam Witwicky: "Fifty years from now, when you're looking back at your life, don't you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?”
SYNOPSIS: An ancient struggle 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.
I was not a Transformers kid when I grew up in the late 80's - early 90's and I think that's why I wasn't so hard on Michael Bay's film when I caught it…
Review by Mike Rupert ½ 3

"bang, bang, crash, no, no, no, go, go, go, boom, bam, pew, pew, bang, crash".....there, you just saw Transformers without waisting 2.5 hours of your life.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 12

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It's odd to return to the (relative) simplicity of Transformers after The Last Knight, which was so bursting at the seams that it inadvertently caused Bumblebee to exist. In comparing the 2007 film to even the first couple sequels, this is a mild Michael Bay scrambling of a Spielbergian concept. It's still batshit crazy - from the post-9/11 distrust of the Iraq War, the Decepticons stealing American secrets, the hilarious 'ding-dong' portrayal of George W. Bush with his red socks - but rooted in a calmer structure, a less toxic overview, and more traditional set-pieces. Of course, you can't tame Michael Bay, so the military tech fetishes, racist/sexist caricatures, and often hypnotic transformers interlocking, exploding, collapsing mid-battle find their…
Review by Frandi Peralta ★★★★★ 15

So many memories.....😢
I remember when I watch this movie for the first time with my friends. We would spend all are recess and lunch time just talking about this movie. I miss those times :(
Review by Auteur ★ 4

If I were charged to compile a list of ten or twenty scenes which I feel are the worst in the history of film, the bullshit that takes place at the Witwicky residence about halfway through Michael Bay's cinematic abortion Transformers might just make the top ten. Culminating with the introduction of John Turturro's government agent, and Mrs. Witwicky shouting "get your hands off my bush," this scene is the moment that my blank indifferent stare at the nonsense that was washing over me turned to a seething rage, and I realized that not only did Michael Bay not give two shits about what he was doing, but also that the film was an aggressive insult to the intelligence of…
Review by Joe Lynch ★★★

Family-friendly gateway Bayhem thst (almost) the whole family can (kinda) enjoy.
After seeing the other installments (BUMBLEBEE not included) I appreciate the “simplicity” of this one all the more.
NoNoNonlNoNoNONO!
Review by Mads Ej ★★★½ 5

Sam Witwicky: How did you know about his glasses?
Optimus Prime: eBay.
Transformers movies ranked: boxd.it/8WwgE
I have never seen any of the Michael Bay Transformers movies before so I have decided to watch them all.
This movie was so stupid but I honestly had fun with it. The characters were terrible and their dialogue was cringeworthy but the action scenes and special effects really saved the movie for me.
Almost none of the characters were believable and they felt very loud and exaggerated for no reason other than being annoying. The humor also didn’t work all the time and often made scenes too ridiculous (for example the soldiers needing a credit card to call the pentagon during a battle). …
Review by Gabe☆Gabrielle ★★★★½ 3

- Mikaela not being your babe
- Mikaela decapitating Frenzy to save Sam
- Sam subtly hiding scared behind Mikaela
- Mikaela saving Sam from getting in trouble with his parents
- Mikaela undressing and cuffing Simmons for threatening her father
- Mikaela being the only character in this movie who asks the sensible questions
- Mikaela hooking a disabled Bumblebee to the back of a truck and shooting motherfuckers up
i love mikaela banes and i love megan fox fuck you.
Review by Owen 🍂❄️ ★★★½ 6

Haven't seen this one in well over ten years or so, but upon reflection, it's actually a solid action movie. Even though it's pretty obvious Hasbro just wanted to make a shit-ton of money off of these films, Bay gives the property a unique edge. Like it or not, he's a pretty great action director, and this movie really stands the test of time even more than a decade onward. In fact, if I didn't know any better, I'd go so far as to say it was ahead of the curve because this honestly does not look like a 2000s action film from a technical perspective. Whereas recent directors like the Russo Bros. misinterpret the language of CGI and drown…
Review by DirkH ★★ 21

Michael Bay is a magician and understands the concept of misdirection a bit too well.
The first time I watched this he managed to convince me that this wasn't a total disaster by bombarding me with cosmetics, explosions and a constantly sweaty Megan Fox.
This time around the cosmetics still look great, the explosions are annoying and Fox could do with a shower as she looks nasty in all the wrong ways. For some reason I always thought the second part was far worse than this one, but when push comes to shove this is an equally hollow affair. The fact that it was the first one and that it doesn't suffer that much from the ridiculous stacking of moronic over the top and poorly choreographed action the sequels have, is probably the reason why it gets a bit more credit.
It's just a rather dull collection of pixels (Fox included) and LaBoeuf running and not much else.
Review by 𝑤𝑎𝑑𝑒 🍁 ★★★½ 5

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This was intensely every middle school boy’s wet dream back in the day. Explosions, cars, megan fox, delinquent toilet humor, army testosterone, linkin park, slow-mo, badass robots and megan fox—oh wait srry what was we talking about? Hard to pay attention to anything else when the camera is on her ass all the damn time and hey listen i’m not complaining but come on she wasn’t there for her...um...acting so yeah
even with all that I don’t like giving credit to mister bay but still ngtl i watched this so much in 7th grade my hormones were raging their own bayhem in my teenage years. Leave it to my childhood autobots & megan fox fully awakening mega stage puberty in my awkward school life.

Recent reviews

Review by Ethan Brehm ★★★★★

Twizard Rating: 100
Review by RedRucksack

Technik-Kreationismus mit Autos
Review by Thaddeus ★★★

Slightly embarrassed by how much of this still works for me! I would've thought that this movie could become redundant in a post-Bumblebee world but for all its outsize flaws I still can't resist the scale of this.
Bay earns his reputation by directing the shit out of a big action setpiece, and the first act's Blackout and Scorpionok sequences still thrill and sizzle. That iconic Bayhem comes into full effect, as the Transformers aren't as messily overdesigned as they'd become later in the series and despite shaky, stylized camerawork their oversize battles are still trackable and engaging. The Steve Jablonski score is soaring and epic in a way that almost makes you forget how lowbrow a lot of the movie gets.
Review by Michael Colpitts ★★★★

Steven Spielberg is an executive producer on all five of Michael Bay's Transformers films, but this is the only one where you can feel his presence.
Review by BabyYodaFan44 ★★★

I think that this movie is good. It’s got a good premise and a butt load of great action! Overall score: B+. Entertainment: 8.5.
Review by Joe Lynch ★★★

Family-friendly gateway Bayhem thst (almost) the whole family can (kinda) enjoy.
After seeing the other installments (BUMBLEBEE not included) I appreciate the “simplicity” of this one all the more.
NoNoNonlNoNoNONO!
Review by bennie ★★★★★

this is the only trans movie ever .. the danish girl wants what transformers (2007) has
Review by angelina ★★★

we get it. megan fox is hot but you didn’t need to do all that, michael bay. other than that, this movie was pretty good but i wanted to punch sam’s parents in the face very badly.
Review by Stuart Frazer ★½

Meh
Review by GabrielHilleard ★★½

It's too long right off the bat. Sometimes the action is fun like the highway scene and when Megatron slaps his hands together and makes the gun but there's a lot of shakey quickly edited stuff that I was not in the mood for and it mostly just annoyed me. It might just be the nostalgia speaking but I like the linken park song at the end. Not so much that I'm gonna find out what it's called to listen to it in my life but when it kicked in I did start groovin a little and I'm pretty sure that bananananum bananana banana bananana Nana na Nana na thing in the movie is one of the first things I learnt on the bass cause it's pretty sick.
Review by jmackw ½

What I expected was a big dumb action movie about robots exploding things. What I got was direct-to-dvd American Pie sequel level cringe comedy.
Review by sabrinaxie65 ★★★★★

big robot aliens fight yes
linkin park yes
blue and orange into my eye holes yes