Transformers

"Their war. Our world."

2007 2h 24m EN

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6.8

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57%

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METACRITIC

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7.1

IMDB

★6.8TMDB · 12,604🥫57%Rotten Tomatoes●61Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 714,583

AdventureScience FictionAction

Synopsis

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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.

“Their war. Our world.”

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Cast

Shia LaBeouf
Sam Witwicky
Megan Fox
Mikaela Banes
Mark Ryan
Bumblebee (voice)
Peter Cullen
Optimus Prime (voice)
Hugo Weaving
Megatron (voice)
Josh Duhamel
Captain Lennox
Tyrese Gibson
USAF Tech Sergeant Epps
Charlie Adler
Starscream (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, John Rogers
Languages: Spanish, English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Spanish, English.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Transformers Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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6 / 8

CAST

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213+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Michael Bay, shot by Mitchell Amundsen. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Steve Jablonsky. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Michael Bay directs. Mitchell Amundsen behind the camera. Steve Jablonsky scores. Tom Muldoon cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Spanish, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$150M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 4.7× over at the box office.
3Released 19 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Spanish, English.
5Part of the "Transformers Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6213+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Michael Bay, shot by Mitchell Amundsen. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Steve Jablonsky. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Tom Muldoon shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox and Mark Ryan carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Their war. Our world.".
12IMDB entry: tt0418279 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has multiple community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1412,604 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
15Classified under 10 themes, including "transformation", "destroy", "alien", "based on toy".
16Released under 12 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Mitchell Amundsen
Original score: Steve Jablonsky
Editing: Tom Muldoon
Production design: Jeff Mann
Costume design: Deborah L. Scott
Makeup / hair: Edouard F. Henriques III
VFX supervisor: Scott Farrar
Sound: Kevin O'Connell
Stunt coordinator: Kenny Bates
Runtime: 144 min · 2h 24m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $150,000,000
Box office: $709,709,780
Return: 473% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Transformers (2007)
Rotten Tomatoes: 57% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 61/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 714,583 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 25 wins & 50 nominations total

Part of

Transformers Collection

The Transformers series follows the continuing battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons and ultimately, the triumph of good over evil. This collection includes theatrically released films of the Transformers saga only.

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CinemaSerf2023-05-18
★ 6/10
With all the gazillion planets in the galaxy to choose from, the warring Cybertron races of "Autobots" (the sort of goodies) and "Decepticons" (the sort of baddies) descend on Earth in search of a missing cube. This "allspark" - landed on our planet aeons ago and for many years has been unwittingly in the custody of the always competent US military and their "Section 7" operatives - currently led by "Simmons" (John Turturro). Now it transpires that there is a clue to the location of this gizmo - and that is to be found on the spectacles of the grandfather of "Sam" (Shia LaBeouf), only he doesn't know it. The goodies decide to protect him by providing him with one of their number, the ultimate convertible car "Bumblebee" but that doesn't actually end up being much use as his bodyguard and soon poor old "Sam" and his gal "Mikaela" (the startlingly wooden Megan Fox) are embroiled in the action-packed Meccano movie. The star is easy on the eye and has a soupçon of charisma to bring, but otherwise this is just a shockingly derivative series of repetitive fight scenes featuring robots between whom it is almost impossible to distinguish. Their vocals all seem to involve them speaking into the microphone through an old pair of socks, and as it lurches on I gradually found I really couldn't care less whether the red robot beat the black one - you just know this is but the start of a never ending franchise with only two purposes. 1 - to restart the flagging career of Josh Duhamel and 2 - to sell toys, thousands and thousands of toys. Marketing has often been behind some of the most successful movie spin-offs, but somehow this is just a touch more cynical than the rest. The story is weak and the characterisations, such as they are, are about as deep as a hoof print. Plenty of pyrotechnics, though, but at all but 2½ hours long, this is a long old haul. Maybe if I were only twelve years old, but...
Basil de Gres2025-09-23
★ 2/10
Car fetishism, good vs evil, alien (illegal of course) emigrants wrecking havoc, military might, some conspiracy theories for perspective, and male bravery that saves the day. Much action, next to nothing in substance. Skip it, unless you are a teenager.