Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Running time: 3 hrs. 20 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor and language.
Distributors: Paramount Picture, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Inc. Paramount Pictures International.
U.S. Box Office: $316,476,438
Transformers” is based on the mid-1980s cartoon. The director is Michael Bay who gave us “Armageddon” and “Pearl Harbor.” Transformer’s visuals and sound are very good. Michael Bay provides audience a nonstop feast of coolness throughout the film. “The special effects work from Industrial creates Transformer’s most seamless visuals on a big budget picture since Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World.” The transforming effects are really cool, and the sound is equally fantastic — especially when the Transformers start to speak. It’s like some one just had a tracheotomy and start shouting in a big empty room. In the first scene, helicopter Robert attacked American Amy. When this transformer shack back to the Robert, the sound of its every transforming action makes people feel so real and so awesome.