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low budget doesn't mean bad movie and there are numerous examples to prove it. but movie maker has to have an idea or at least try to be original and creative. this movie "borrows" all the lamest Hollywood clichés and puts them into zero budget project without adding any shred of originality. so even tho the low budget doesn't mean bad movie, bad acting, bad script, bad directing and bad technical production do. and this is probably the worst movie i have seen in a long time. one good point was the fact that futuristic society was governed by women. if they had machine guns instead of plastic toys and were half-naked this movie would be watchable. this way it just hopes to cash few bucks transmorphing incoming transformers title. bad.

I only stumbled onto this movie after having mistaken it for "Transformers". That was disappointment number one. Well, being the sci-fi fan I am, I saw it through anyhow.

The acting was poor, though about what I had expected. Like the acting in Starship Troopers but with less memorable faces.

The plot had potential, but turned out to be a bad Matrix Revolutions rip off.

Most disappointing of all was the graphics. The special effects throughout the movie were simply horrible. Way below par anything you would expect to see today. It would have looked amateur 15 years ago.

I don't recommend taking this one on sober.

I've seem a lot of movies over the years, some of the worst ever made. so i know it takes real talent and skill to make some thing this bad. no way could this movie be an accident. that would be like a high school grad taking the sixth grade proficiency test and getting EVERY question AS WRONG as possible. if this was just bad acting there should have been at least some redeeming scene, one liner or golden turkey award worth event somewhere in the picture. as it is the only thing i liked about this movie was when i ejected the disk and threw it across the room. i got this trash for free and I WANT MY MONEY BACK! the makers of this movie owe me BIG for the time and brain cells wasted watching it. it's to bad IMDb's rating system doesn't have negative values. I'd give Transmorphers a -10

amazingly i actually sat through the entire movie praying that it would get better. i then spent a day wondering if i had dreamt that a movie could be so bad and unfortunately i wasn't dreaming.

to start off with there is the acting it was like the director just fell asleep and forgot to direct it was incredibly bad. then there are the special effects which honestly look like they were done before computers were invented.

then the story which could have been pretty good was let down due the fact that the plot was lost in the first few minutes.

i recommend staying as faraway form this movie as is humanly possible.

Seriously! this movie is so damn bad you can't miss this! It's like a staple in how bad a movie can go! bad acting, horrible effects for a movie that was not made in the 80s, terrible plot, and the fights! lol I laughed so hard at the fight scenes! At some points of the movie you can actually see some actors giggle at the shittyness that is going on! I'm telling you, you CAN'T miss this. I doubt there will be a sci-fi movie as bad as this one, EVER!.

I bet a lot of people will get this anyways, as it's obviously marketed so people mistakenly pick it thinking it is transformers (as a friend of mine did when he picked this gigantic turd!). MUST WATCH!

I've read all the remarks made so far and the only thing that I can say is that they're all right. I'm a sci-fi fan, but to classify this movie as a sci-fi would be an insult to the genre. If I found this movie in a bargain-bin for $1.99 I still wouldn't buy it. I can't comment on the music track because I was so absorbed by the bad, bad, bad acting, that I don't even remember hearing it.

Very simply put, this movie just plain sucks.

The only thing I have an issue with is comparing the acting in this movie to that of Starship Troopers. That's being really insulting to Starship Troopers.

I don't ever comment on movies I've seen, whether I liked them or not, because I know we all have different tastes, but I just couldn't let this one go. I could find absolutely no redeeming qualities in this movie. If there were such a class as a "C" movie, that's where I'd put this one.

This live action movie has been a long time coming. I loved playing with Transmorpher toys as a kid and watched the Saturday morning cartoon show religiously. I'd drive my parents nuts singing the catch phrase "Transmorphers, robots in the skies" over and over again. I bawled my head off when Optimist Prime died. So, you can imagine how stoked I was as an adult man, pushing forty to discover they were making a Transmorphers live action movie. I was even more excited to discover my local Blockbuster had an advance copy of it BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED IN THE THEATERS! But, after watching it, let me tell you--this movie doesn't live up to the hype! I didn't expect it to follow the plot of the original 1986 cartoon movie, Transmorphers: The Movie, but seriously, I expected to see some familiar characters. I was hoping for some of my favorite Oddobot characters like Honeybee, Chazz, or Ironside. No luck. I thought they would at least have some of the Deceiticons like Sunscreen or Magnadoodle. Also no luck. Now that Hasbro bought Tonka, perhaps the producers of the movie tried to save money by using some of the lesser known Gobot characters? Anyway, if you're a fan of the old Transmorpher toys or cartoons, don't bother with this movie... Oh, what am I saying? I don't care how bad this movie was, TRANSMORPHERS RULE! TRANSMORPHERS, MORE THAN MEETS YOU OR I...

Wow it's amazing that a movie titled Trans"Anything" popped up around the same time as the multi-million dollar blockbuster Transformers. What a complete and utter coincidence!

My movie ranking doesn't usually include "B" movies because they are typically awful. I think next to The Wicker Man, this is the worst movie to catch my eyes in a long time. Not that I can email the producer and tell him I want my hour and a half back....OK so I did...and I'm still waiting to hear from him. I highly recommend this movie to any and all insomniacs if you need a sleep aid. If that don't help.....drink heavily and use it as a coaster.

PUBLIC NOTICE! "TRANSMORPHERS has been renamed, "TRANSGARBAGE" - Like most, if not everyone else, I thought I was buying THE MOVIE "TRANSFORMERS". No doubt that was Leigh Scott's idea!!! A sucker born every minute! Please, please tell me that this was a "home made movie"; I'll feel better about it, as I cannot believe ANYONE in the movie business is capable of such sheer lack of ability. Even as a home made movie it would be bad. And the 'acting', well, when you can't act, 'act' in a Leigh Scott 'movie'. If I made this 'movie' or 'acted' in it, I would hide my shame by becoming a recluse. Mr Scott, Pizza Hut are looking for delivery boys, bet you can do that. Hhhmmm, then again .......

Wilcannia

This was deliberately made to be totally ridiculous and lousy crap.

At least you will get a few laughs, but be sure not to waste your time watching all the talk scenes...just FORWARD through most of the movie and enjoy the crumbs of nothingness that somehow made me laugh.

The Very First Clue was the title: TRANSMORPHERS .... not TRANSFORMERS! I am seriously contemplating doing a movie with the title: TRANSSMURFERS! NOT! Doubt the owners of The Smurfs would let me.

If you do not pay close attention you would easily fail to see the spelling difference! Also, beware of the flashing scenes: I almost got convulsions! The second clue was when the intro says that we discovered a planet with life over 20 million light years away! Any adult with the even the most rudimentary science education should know that our own Milky Way Galaxy is only roughly 100,000 Light Years across (diameter)! And the furthest detectable planets are well within 100 Light Years distance.

As for the acting: what acting?!? I cannot for the life of me imagine that the thespians in this movie were not aware of the impossibility of accidentally making such a lousy, everything-did-go-wrong (-NOT!) movie! I've seen Trekkies make better stuff on a budget of less than $500.

Over the years watching mainstream movies and straight to D.V.D movies, I've learned what to expect from one or the other, in the case of me buying this film I did not expect to see Transformers or for that matter a major visual effects feast, it is a low budget straight to D.V.D release and my overall opinion of it is, it has a decent storyline, it has a good looking cast and although it does not have outstanding C.G.I or sound effects it delivers on low budget standards.

So if you buy this film thinking you're going to see transformers, think again because you will be disappointed. The only way to enjoy some straight to D.V.D movies is not to set your standards too high

Okay, now that you know the plot, let me write my review. This is my second Asylum film that I've seen (Asylum is a company that rips off recent movies, if you didn't know). I did not remember anything about War of the Worlds nor do I remember as much from this film.

All I know is that this film wasn't as bad as people have been calling it. It wasn't really good either. It was just another lazy production in Asylum. Can they take their time? They like shoot their films for like a week (or it seems so) and the movie ends up looking terrible and sometimes decent!

There's nothing bad about the film. Well, there were some atrocious performances (even a beautiful looking girl who always talk in an annoying "cool" tone). The action took a bit long to get to. That shows that this film takes its time to build a plot.

And I'll tell you right now, there are at least TWO (2) things in here that surprised me in a good way! It may seem impossible but they pulled it off! One of them is truly original (well, I haven't seen every sci-fi film out there!) and another was taken from another movie but I was still surprised!

Other than that, everything else was average to bad. The CGI was...okay, it was really bad. The sound effects were out of sinc and were unoriginal so that was bad as well. The robots do die very easily here, like any other human. The action was decent. Other than that, if you really want to see this film, go ahead. It's completely pointless but harmless at the same time.

First of all, anyone who thought they were getting, or going to watch "Transformers" when they rented or bought this is an idiot.

After reading through the message left by the director on this sight I am impressed at high little this movie was made for, but wishing he had spent the 150,000 on something else besides the FX.

The acting was uneven, with Eliza Swenson being the worst offender, but overall it was better then some I've seen.

The story line wasn't terribly original, but how many are today? While my copy did not have the out-of-sync problem, it was very hard to hear the characters talking during some of the actions scenes.

All that being said, it was better then some movies made by the Sci-Fi channel (which can have some really bad FX as well), but not worth buying.

I had read the comments here before I watched the movie, so I knew it would be bad. I am fond of both sci-fi and watching b-movies, so I watched it anyway. However, I feel I should give some warning for all those who don't have the mental stamina to abuse their own mind with abhorrent movies.

The special effects would be bad even for a computer game, though if it was a computer game people would think the human models were very well done but the voice actors sucked. Out of respect of your mental welfare, I will not list what is bad with this movie, its bad on oh so many levels.

Just trust me when I say that you will find nothing of value if you watch it. No story, no special effects, no acting, no music etc. I noticed that a few gave this movie a rating of 10. It must be either those working on this movie or the insane.

It is hard to accept that this is a modern movie, made 2007. Making movies like this should be illegal. People should spend time in prison for making this kind of crap.

With that said.. I don't regret watching this crap, but it will not happen again, nor will I try to trick any friend of mine to watch it. That would be plain evil.

That this film was being shown on Zone Horror (a channel more used to showing films that aspired to be the sort of films that the Scream trilogy parodied) was the first hint to it's quality. Very low budget, and it showed. Plot sketchy at best, acting not brilliant and FX about what you'd expect from a fan film. The fight scenes were particularly bad (in particular the 'cat fight' in the barracks).

On the other hand, it wasn't as bad as many commenters have made out, certainly better than the normal fare on Zone Horror. Whilst the CGI was poor most of the physical FX were decent enough. Whilst the acting wasn't brilliant I've seen far worse in much higher budget films from mainstream studios, it felt like some more rehearsal or possibly another take would have improved it greatly. All in all it felt rushed rather than bad. Certainly the cast seemed attractive enough to hold one's attention if you're looking for eyecandy and the costumes were good if a little monotonous (though, to be fair, that's what you expect from uniforms).

A number of comments have compared this film to Starship Troopers, and a number have rebutted the the comparison. I think the comparison is,if you take the different in budgets into account, quite fair. Transmorphers is certainly close to Starship Troopers and far better than Starship Troopers 2. Yes it has ripped off plot points and scenes from other films, but then there's nothing unusual about that. Heck, there's an entire art movement based around that, it's called post-modernism! Stephen

Inarguably the worst movie I have seen. I knew it was going to be bad from the opening line... "In 2009 we discovered life on another planet... a planet twenty-million light-years away." Um... And they got here and kicked our butts in five years? Why do robots need planets? Why are high-ranking world-leading heroes barely out of their teens? Why can't I turn this off? It was like watching a train-wreck in slow-motion. I couldn't look away, watching in horrified fascination wondering just how bad the dialog and wooden the acting could get. There is not a single redeeming feature in this film. One of those movies that goes from bad, to badder, to baddest without ever being bad enough to be good. It will take Good long Ed Wood film festival to scrub this movie from my mind. Now where did I leave my copy of "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians".

I was first intrigued by the title, however ultimately disappointed with the film which seems to be using name recognition to steal thunder from the upcoming release of Transformers, also there is no reference to morphing in the film. That aside this is a low budget production with no originality, bad acting, a bad script with numerous references of "so be it" which is ironically used to close actors scenes without justification. The special fx are especially poor in scenes; sounds and graphics are not synchronised or simply missing. The CG is fair but there is poor direction with actors randomly pointing guns which don't shoot as an example.

My overall impression is this is a bad film.

Looking at the comment and message board for this movie, one would think it was a huge budget movies with years of anticipation that just sucked. Apparently it was made in like three weeks for less than Michael Bay's blow budget from TRANSFORMERS. I love B movies and live for DTV stuff. Some of it I watch to see "it's so bad it's good" kind of stuff. But Asylum movies more often than not are just solid little movies that are a lot of fun to watch. This one is no exception. Sure the effects suck. Yeah, the sound is awful (what Asylum movie has ever had good sound?) but in the world of sci-fi movies, this one holds its own. I wish TRANSFORMERS had one character I liked as much as Itchy. I actually felt a little chocked up at the end of this one, instead of feeling absolutely nothing like I do during 99% of all big movies nowadays. And come on, give these guys props for making a cheapie little movie that ISN'T another retarded horror flick! I think this is a movie that people will look back on in ten years and really like, especially when one or several of its cast members are famous and its no longer "cool" to hate it.

It's not very good but if you go in with an open mind it is funny and entertaining. The girls are hot and I appreciate the lesbian relationship. There is action and there is plot. The battle scenes at the end were good. I was admittedly entertained throughout. This movie doesn't try to be anything it's not, and insofar as low budgies are concerned, this thing is awesome. Effects are decent. Acting is decent. Plot is decent. Those are three things which most big budgies rarely achieve. Point being, if you rented this thinking it was Transformers, then you are an idiot. And if you rented it expecting to see a giant budget movie with gigantic robots without ever having heard of it and subsequently being disappointed, then you are even more of an idiot than the ignorant person who got confused at the video store.

First off, I appreciate the issues with this film - the problems with the sound production, SFX promises that were not kept, and budget cuts that meant the robots of the title could not be shown until late in the movie - I've read the director's lengthy and fervent rebuttals.

And, like a slow-motion car crash or a child forgetting his lines during a nativity play, Transmorphers is damn entertaining to watch.

However, a few questions remain, largely why anyone thought it would be a good idea to set two thirds of the film in a grey bunker. I enjoy bad movies as much as the next Joe-thinks-he-can-do-it-better, but there really is nothing to actually look at in most of the film - besides the female ensemble, of course, who spend so long pouting and trying to out-sass each other their every involvement in this dystopic vision of the future becomes comparable to 2am outside Bar Med. I appreciate there won't be much riveting scenery post-apocalypse, but how about mixing things up with a ruined factory interior? A ruined mansion interior? A ruined hospital interior? Because simply including a table or a bed in a new scene does not a cunning locational development make.

Regarding the characters, quite why Transmorphers boasts such a lengthy cast list is a complete mystery considering the overall lack of anything that happens for the first 45 minutes, creating a simultaneous air of frustration by not constantly knowing who's who and precipitating the overall lack of interest in the increasingly tedious events. In short, the same story could have been told with one quarter of the cast. And - just to let you know - one quarter of the screen-time, too.

I'll close with a quick plot synopsis summarising Leigh Scott's approach to screen-writing and story structure:

1) Some characters stand around waxing lyrical in a boring place

2) More characters turn up, fight the first lot, then team up.

3) see step 1.

4) see step 2.

5) SHOCKING PLOT TWIST

6) Everyone pretends something is actually happening and that this has some baring to the blurb on the back of the DVD case

7) Vague romantic entanglement / footnote

8) The end.

Entertaining, granted, but I think even Mr. Scott knew Transmorphers was made to be laughed at rather than with. But as he so rightly pointed out - he's the one making the movies, and we're the ones watching them. So unless someone intends to prove they can do better, I'll continue to laugh and he'll continue to get paid. Everyone wins.

Except art. Art doesn't win.

I'm not going to say much about this Movie... All I will say is, Don't watch it. If someone gives this to you as a gift, throw it away, and punch them, punch them HARD! The only way one can view this film is having one's eyes taped open, tied to a chair, with a vomit bucket close by.

I have never in my life seen a more horrible film in my life. It makes "Manos: The Hands of Fate" look downright Oscar worthy. Please for the sake of all people, if you see this movie anywhere, run from it, and tell everyone you know never to pick it up or even accidentally view it.

I'm thinking about calling the CDC on this one, and get it classified as a Class 1 Biohazard.

This is one movie that will bore you beyond what you can put up with. There is too much talk and less action. The setting is too gloomy (gray and mostly gray) and the shots are too tight. It's like the whole movie is happening in such an enclosed space that you need to find a place to breath.

The effects are not consistent. You don't really know if the machines are bigger or smaller than you.

The costumes are like so not-thoroughly-thought-of. The film wants to portray that they are advanced, meaning, the movie is happening sometime in the future, but the actors are like wearing black leather jackets and chicks wearing silver tops. What's up with that? They just ended up looking dirty (no bathes) and drab.

Watching this film is a total waste of time!