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This list was originally published in 2018.
Its been updated to includeTransformers One, now in theaters.
A confession: I love theTransformersmovies.
But I am also an adult with self-awareness.
Which Transformers look the coolest?
Do you have to regret enjoying this movie because the director did creepy things?
Are there racist caricatures disguised as robots?
Would you risk it all for each films two central characters?
How many times did you cry at the sympathetic robot eyes?
Is there a John Cena or a Mark Wahlberg?
Taking all these criteria into account, here is your indisputable hierarchy ofTransformersmovies.
9.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen(2009)
9.
In some ways,Revenge of the Fallenfeels like it was a sadly under-lovedTransformersmovie.
We would have had one more movie to hear Fox yell Saaaaaam!
in her very specific, perfect way.
Fallenalso had some of the best action sequences of any of theTransformersmovies.
And yet in other big ways, theres a lot ofFallenbetter left to the cultural waste bin.
Even too offensive for Michael Bay, the charactersdid not returnforDark of the Moontwo years later.
Its not the worstTransformersmovie (that goes to you,Last Knight!
), but it does have to answer for having the worst legacy.
8.Transformers: The Last Knight(2017)
8.
Thebestpart of the movie is when its glossed over thatHarriet Tubmanwas part of an underground robot railroad.
There are, of course, small highlights inLast Knight.
Impossibly perfect human Gemma Chan provides the voice for the sinister Quintessa.
And watching Cybertron collide with Earth hasa lot of Wow!going for it.
But overall,Last Knightis the most soulless, video-game-esqueTransformersmovie.
7.Transformers: Rise of the Beasts(2023)
7.
Rise of the Beastsis, unfortunately, a big, heavy sigh.
Its a nice-enough time!
Its robots fighting, man.
6.Transformers: The Movie(1986)
6.
The original feature-lengthTransformerstreatment is still pretty cool.
Theres enough going on in Cybertron with all these bots living lives and wrestling with a civil war.
People are just a distraction.
5.Transformers: Dark of the Moon(2011)
5.
The first movie in theTransformersA.F.
(after Fox) timeline made a believer out of me.
(And also made him tanner than he will ever be again in his natural life.)
(Looking at you,Last Knight.)
4.Transformers One
4.
One of the hero bots, Orion Pax, aspires to be more than meets the eye.
The other, D-16, just wants to follow protocol and live unbothered.
It also brings the heart back to the franchise thatBumblebeeput in it beforeBeasts.
3.Transformers: Age of Extinction(2014)
3.
But it turns out Bay had two aces up his sleeve: Mark Wahlberg andDinobots!
2.Transformers(2007)
2.
Putting this one at No.
2 hurts a little bit.
Therefore, no effects were required.)
The chemistry between the actors is also incredible.
Kevin Dunn and Julie White as Mr. and Mrs. Witwicky were note-perfect as Sams batty parents.
John Turturro gave aCoen brotherskind of performance as the paranoid Agent Simmons.
There are only three doomed fictional couples I have ever cared enough about to ship with my whole heart.
And Sam and Mikaela.
Thekey highway battle, however, will live on as the greatest action sequence in franchise history.
1.Bumblebee(2018)
1.
(I know, because I love these movies.)
Whenit was announced, the idea of aBumblebeemovie felt like a cynical cash grab.
