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  • Transformers (2007)
    Review preview for Transformers

    High-octane nonsense for those who suffer from permanently arrested development.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Robots in disguise!
  • Transformers: Age Of Extinction (2014)
    Review preview for Transformers: Age Of Extinction

    The reality of enduring this 165-minute car-wreck is depressing in the extreme.

    David Graham · 2 out of 5
    A mechanic hooks up with Optimus Prime as alien robots trick humans into hunting down the Autobots.
  • Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen (2009)
    Review preview for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen

    It is bigger and longer than the original – but certainly no better, and this time round lacking even a novelty factor.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    Sam Witwicky has to save the earth from Decepticon (again).
  • Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (2011)
    Review preview for Transformers: Dark Of The Moon

    The comedy is not funny, the action is exhausting, and by the time its 156 minutes are over, you too will have been transformed into a dead-eyed machine that has lost the power or will to care.

    Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
    The Decepticons and Autobots battle once again.
  • Transformers One (2024)
    Review preview for Transformers One

    It's fun. It's quite unabashedly so, which is something too many movies based on this sort of property are afraid of.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but who once were friends, bonded like brothers, who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
  • Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (2023)
    Review preview for Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

    Would you like to see things you've seen before, slightly re-organised, and often louder?

    Andrew Robertson · 2.5 out of 5
    During the Nineties, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.

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