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Critical reception
Transformers was met with mixed reviews from film critics, receiving a "rotten" rating of only 56% favorable reviews out of 152 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes,[88] and a Metacritic score of 61 out of 100 (generally favorable) from 33 reviews.[89] IGN's Todd Gilchrist found it Michael Bay's best film to date, and "one of the few instances where it's OK to enjoy something for being smart and dumb at the same time, mostly because it's undeniably also a whole lot of fun."[90] The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt liked "how a teen plot line gets tied in to the end of the world",[91] while The Advertiser's Sean Fewster found the visual effects so seamless that "you may come to believe the studio somehow engineered artifical intelligence".[92] The Denver Post's Lisa Kennedy praised the depiction of the robots as having "a believably rendered scale and intimacy."[93] and ABC presenter Margaret Pomeranz was surprised "that a complete newcomer to the Transformers phenomenon like myself became involved in the fate of these mega-machines",[94] Roger Ebert found the robots "delightful creatures... their movements are ingenious."[95]
There was division over the script. Ain't It Cool News's Drew McWeeny also felt most of the cast grounded the story, and that "it’s certainly the best sci-fi action movie in a while. It’s outrageous, but it has a real sense of wonder, one of the things that’s missing from so much of the big CGI lightshows released these days."[96] Author Peter David found it ludricrous fun, and that "Bay wisely decides to go with the silliness rather than fight it... [he] manages to hold on to his audience's suspension of disbelief long enough for us to segue into some truly spectacular battle scenes."[97] Dark Horizons's Garth Franklins liked its simplicity because "Bay and scribes Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci understand that people are simply here to see giant robots thrash the hell out of both each other and metropolitan surroundings"[98] Empire's Ian Nathan praised Shia LaBeouf as "a smart, natural comedian, [who] levels the bluntness of this toy story with an ironic bluster."[99]
Newsarama's Ryan McLelland enjoyed the action but admitted "when they try to move along the movie with the human characters you just say to yourself, 'Where’s Optimus Prime? Where’s Starscream? Let’s get some big honkin’ robots!'"[100] Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles found the storyelling a conflict between Bay and Steven Spielberg's styles, with the military storylines distracting from Sam.[101] Daily Herald's Matt Arado was highly critical that "the Transformers [are] little more than supporting players",[102] and Los Angeles Times's Kenneth Turan found the humans "oddly lifeless, doing little besides marking time until those big toys fill the screen."[103] James Berardinelli hated the film as he did not connect with the characters in-between the action, which he found tedious,[104] while Comingsoon.net's Joshua Stames felt the Transformers were "completely believable, right up to the moment they open their mouths to talk, when they revert to bad cartoon characters."[105] 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."[106]