| Cast |
Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor, Anthony Anderson, Jon Voight |
| Director |
Michael Bay |
| Screenplay | Robert Orci, Alex Kurtzman, John Rogers |
| Music | Steve Jablonsky |
| Cinematography | Mitchell Amundsen |
| Editing | Tom Muldoon, Paul Rubell, Glen Scantlebury |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2007 |
| Produced by | DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures, Hasbro, Di Bonacentura Pictures, SprocketHeads, Thinkfilm |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Language | Very mild, very infrequent |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Mild to moderate action, threat and battles gunfire, fantastical, science fictional |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Shake, rattle, and roll credits. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Jacques Liebenberg Die prent is 'n totale aanslag op die sintuie en laat 'n mens... uitgeput, maar só gelukkig. | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan Wonder-toys steal show from humans. | 10 | |
| iAfrica.com James O'Ehley Ultimately, the movie's many action scenes will no doubt have small boys of an impressionable age literally pee in their pants from sheer excitement, while teens will appreciate our hero's 'American Pie'-lite teenage travails involving zits, his first car and accusatory parents. | 10 | |
| Mail & Guardian Shaun de Waal | 12 |  |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman ransformers is a noisy, frenetic and, at times, innovative action adventure about an alien race of robots which lands on Earth and takes on the characteristics of American cars and trucks. | 14 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge It's flat-out fun, the year's best achievement in special effects. | 15 | |
| 24.com Megan Kakora With Earth the unfortunate battleground between good and evil alien robots, who needs actors when you've got mind blowing CGI? | 10 | |
| Box Office Tim Cogshell Michael Bay’s live-action vision taps fans’ inner child | 10 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert After a string of bad-to-mediocre films, director Michael Bay scores with blockbuster battling robots in Transformers. | 15 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Transformers is a jumble of the good, the bad, and the ugly, with the latter two categories outweighing the former. | 8 | |
| ScreenItFrenetic but ultimately dull and likely to give many a parent a headache from all of the noise and inanity. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 34 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 166 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Believable characters are hard to come by in this action-packed film. | 11 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 39518 Netizens Shock and Awe, and some gripes | 16 | |
Average .. 59% | 12 | |