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[92] Ain't It Cool News 's Drew McWeeny felt most of the cast grounded the |
story, and that "it has a real sense of wonder, one of the things that's |
missing from so much of the big CGI light shows released these days". [93] |
Author Peter David found it ludicrous fun, and said that "[Bay] manages to |
hold on to his audience's suspension of disbelief long enough for us to segue |
into some truly spectacular battle scenes". [94] Roger Ebert gave the film a |
positive review, giving it 3 stars out of a possible 4, writing: "It's goofy |
fun with a lot of stuff that blows up real good, and it has the grace not only |
to realize how preposterous it is, but to make that into an asset." [95] |
Response to the human storylines was mixed. The Hollywood Reporter 's Kirk |
Honeycutt liked "how a teen plotline gets tied in to the end of the world", |
[96] while Empire 's Ian Nathan praised Shia LaBeouf as "a smart, natural |
comedian, [who] levels the bluntness of this toy story with an ironic |
bluster". [97] Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles felt Bay's style |
conflicted with Spielberg's, arguing the military story only served as a |
distraction from Sam. [98] James Berardinelli hated the film as he did not |
connect with the characters in-between the action, which he found tedious. |
[99] Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan found the humans "oddly lifeless, doing |
little besides marking time until those big toys fill the screen", [100] while |
ComingSoon.net's Joshua Starnes felt the Transformers were "completely |
believable, right up to the moment they open their mouths to talk, when they |
revert to bad cartoon characters". [101] Daily Herald 's Matt Arado was |
annoyed that "the Transformers [are] little more than supporting players", and |
felt the middle act was sluggish. [102] CNN 's Tom Charity questioned the idea |
of a film based on a toy, and felt it would "buzz its youthful demographic |
[...] but leave the rest of us wondering if Hollywood could possibly aim |
lower". [103] General [ edit ] Transformers fans were initially divided over |
the film due to the radical redesigns of many characters, although the casting |
of Peter Cullen was warmly received. [35] USA Today summarized the views of |
critics and audiences saying "there is general raving about the mechanical |
heroes and general grumbling about the excessive screen time given to some of |
the human characters played by Shia LaBeouf, Anthony Anderson, Tyrese Gibson |
and Jon Voight. Optimus Prime, the leader of the good-guy Autobots, doesn't |
appear until midway through the film." [104] Transformers comic book writer |
Simon Furman and Beast Wars script consultant Benson Yee both considered the |
film to be spectacular fun, although Furman also argued that there were too |
many human storylines. [105] Yee felt that being the first in a series, the |
film had to establish much of the fictional universe and therefore did not |
have time to focus on the Decepticons. [106] Audiences polled by CinemaScore |
gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. With audiences |
under 18 the score rises to "A+", and the film was most popular with children |
and parents, including older women, and attracted many African American and |
Latino viewers. [107] The film created a greater awareness of the franchise |
and drew in many new fans. [108] Transformers ' box office success led to the |
active development of films based on Voltron and Robotech , [109] as well as a |
Knight Rider remake. [110] When filming the sequel, Bay was told by soldiers |
the film helped their children understand what their work was like, and that |
many had christened their Buffalos – the vehicle used for Bonecrusher – after |
various Transformer characters. [111] After the film's 2009 sequel was titled |
Revenge of the Fallen , screenwriter Orci was asked if this film would be |
retitled, just as Star Wars was titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope when |
re-released. He doubted the possibility, but said if it was retitled, he would |
call it Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye . [112] Accolades [ edit ] Award |
Category Recipient Result 80th Academy Awards [113] Best Sound Editing Ethan |
Van der Ryn and Mike Hopkins Nominated Best Sound Mixing Kevin O'Connell , |
Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin Nominated Best Visual Effects Scott Benza |
, Russell Earl , Scott Farrar and John Frazier Nominated 2007 MTV Movie Awards |
[114] Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet Won 2008 MTV Movie Awards Best |
Movie Won 2008 Kids' Choice Awards [115] Favorite Movie Nominated 2007 Kuala |
Lumpur International Film Festival [116] Best Special Effects (Jury Merit |
Award) Won Hollywood Film Festival [117] Visual Effects Supervisor of the Year |
Scott Farrar Won 6th Visual Effects Society Awards [118] Outstanding Visual |
Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture Scott Farrar, Shari |
Hanson, Russell Earl, Scott Benza Won Best Single Visual Effect of the Year |
Desert Highway Sequence – Scott Farrar, Shari Hanson, Shawn Kelly, Michael |
Jamieson Won Outstanding Performance by an Animated Character in a Live Action |
Motion Picture Optimus Prime – Rick O'Connor, Doug Sutton, Keiji Yamaguchi, |
Jeff White Nominated Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Feature Motion |
Picture Dave Fogler, Ron Woodall, Alex Jaeger, Brain Gernand Won BMI Awards |
[119] BMI Film Music Award Steve Jablonsky Won 28th Golden Raspberry Awards |
[120] Worst Supporting Actor Jon Voight (also for Bratz: The Movie , September |
Dawn and National Treasure: Book of Secrets ) Nominated 34th Saturn Awards |
[121] Best Science Fiction Film Transformers Nominated Best Special Effects |
Scott Benza, Russell Earl, Scott Farrar and John Frazier Won Entertainment |
Weekly named Bumblebee as their seventh favorite computer generated character, |
[122] while The Times listed Optimus Prime 's depiction as the thirtieth best |
film robot, citing his coolness and dangerousness. [123] Future [ edit ] Main |
articles: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , Transformers: Dark of the Moon |
, Transformers: Age of Extinction , Transformers: The Last Knight , Bumblebee |
(film) , and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts The second film, Revenge of the |
Fallen was released June 24, 2009. The third film, Dark of the Moon was |
released June 29, 2011. The fourth film, Age of Extinction was released June |
27, 2014, and the fifth film titled The Last Knight was released on June 21, |
2017. Revenge of the Fallen , Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction were |
financial successes, while The Last Knight failed at the box office . The |
sequels have received mostly negative reviews. The sixth film Bumblebee was |
released on December 21, 2018 to positive reviews. It is the highest-rated |
film in the Transformers series. The seventh film Rise of the Beasts was |
released on June 9, 2023 to mixed reviews. [124] References [ edit ] ^ |
"Transformers (2007) - Financial Information" . The Numbers . Archived from |
the original on November 23, 2018 . Retrieved April 20, 2021 . ^ " |
Transformers " . British Board of Film Classification . Archived from the |
original on January 22, 2023 . Retrieved May 11, 2022 . ^ Bob Tourtellotte |
(July 1, 2007). " "Transformers" film yields big bang on fewer bucks" . |
Reuters . Archived from the original on January 22, 2023 . Retrieved August |
19, 2010 . But the producers of "Transformers", Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Ian |
Bryce, say they have spent only $150 million on "Transformers", and they |
reckon they got a bargain. ^ a b ALEX CHADWICK; KIM MASTERS (April 30, 2007). |
" 'Spider-Man 3': Why So Expensive?" . NPR . Archived from the original on May |
18, 2016 . Retrieved April 29, 2020 . ^ a b c " Transformers " . Box Office |
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