The Transformers series has constantly shown that there is more than meets the eye with these robots in disguise, and whether it’s through spin-offs of animation or central movies in live-action, the Transformers franchise has been a beloved and welcome addition to the box office and the movie screens of fans worldwide. Yet, how much money has every Transformers movie made over the years?
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It's always interesting to learn of the highest-grossing Transformers movies, as audiences might learn a thing or two about the movie that they love, or love not so much. Every Transformers movie has an interesting story to tell, and a box office gross that may just make or break the desire for a sequel.
8 Transformers One
Worldwide Gross: $119,034,862
Director | Josh Cooley |
Release Date | 20 September 2024 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 89% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 98% |
Note: Transformers One is still in theaters as of 22 October 2024
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Transformers One is an ambitious and beautiful story of friendship and tragedy, weaving the untold origins of Optimus Prime as Orion Pax and Megatron as D-16. The two Cybertronians navigate their lives as miners with an unbreakable bond, desperate to prove that their spark is more than meets the eye as they discover something that could forever change the fate of Cybertron.
Transformers One is one of the best Transformers movies out there, and its beautiful use of animation highlights the imagination and design of the franchise. The action is spectacular, the cast is great, and the story of Optimus Prime and Megatron’s bond is beautifully tragic, along with a lot of heart and humor. It’s a shame that Transformers One isn’t looking so hot at the box office, but the figures must come from fierce competition against other movies and a lack of marketing that might have made Transformers One seem a tad too childish.
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7 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Worldwide Gross: $441,381,193
Director | Steven Caple Jr. |
Release Date | 9 June 2023 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 51% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 91% |
A new beginning for the Transformers franchise sees the characters return to live-action but within a new continuity. Optimus Prime and the Autobots that have found their way to Earth are desperate to escape back to Cybertron, only to have their efforts thwarted by the dreaded Scourge, who acts as Unicron’s herald to destroy Earth. Teaming with the Maximals, the Autobots won’t stop until all are one.
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts felt more in line with the classic cartoons with a live-action spin, and the excitement of seeing Optimus Prime and Bumblebee is always a blast. Unfortunately, Rise of the Beasts made even less than the Bumblebee-led spin-off, and perhaps being the 7th live-action movie in the Transformers franchise just left some fans unwilling to see what was next.
6 Bumblebee
Worldwide Gross: $467,989,645
Director | Travis Knight |
Release Date | 26 December 2018 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 91% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 75% |
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Bumblebee leads his own solo movie, a spin-off separate from the Michael Bay movies, which introduces more G1 aspects and heart. Bumblebee follows the Autobot scout B-127 as he lands on Earth with a damaged voice box and struggles to fit in with this new world while Decepticons arrive to cause chaos among its populous to find the hiding Autobot, and his new friend, Charlie Watson.
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Bumblebee was a mild success at the box office, with box office results just shy of $500 million. While it might be significantly less than the Michael Bay Transformers movies, it was a beloved movie about everyone’s favorite yellow and black Autobot and deserved attention outside of Bay’s bombastic action spectacles.
5 Transformers: The Last Knight
Worldwide Gross: $605,425,157
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Director | Michael Bay |
Release Date | 22 June 2017 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 16% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 43% |
The unexpected finale to Michael Bay’s time in the Transformers franchise, The Last Knight attempted to do something different with its protagonist Optimus Prime by forcing him into the role of a manipulated villain. Transformers: The Last Knight has Optimus manipulated and controlled by his creator into beginning the plot necessary to annihilate Earth and the secrets that lay within its foundation.
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Transformers: The Last Knight made the least money of the Michael Bay Transformers movies, which is surprising considering how successful they had been up until this point. While it wasn’t a flop, it made almost under half that of its most successful movie, and that was most likely due to the contradicting lore that the movie introduces, like Nazi-fighting Autobots and Unicron being Earth itself, which all added to a messy continuity that made it hard to care about the story if the movie itself didn't.
4 Transformers
Worldwide Gross: $709,709,780
Director | Michael Bay |
Release Date | 27 July 2007 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 57% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 85% |
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Transformers finally makes its way to the big screen after its creation as an iconic cartoon for decades. Transformers arrives with incredible CGI, sound, and action, and showcases that there is more than meets the eye as the war of Cybertron impacts the innocence of Earth, providing Optimus Prime and Megatron with a final stand to save or damn humanity and its planet.
Transformers was a brilliant success back in 2007, bringing everyone’s favorite selection of robots in disguise to the big screen, while also showcasing Peter Cullen’s talent as the irreplaceable Optimus Prime. Michael Bay’s movie may have been a little more action-packed and crude than the cartoons, but it works well and clearly has its fans.
3 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Worldwide Gross: $836,303,693
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Director | Michael Bay |
Release Date | 19 June 2009 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 20% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 57% |
With Megatron’s death, the Autobots hunt for the remaining Decepticons to make sure Earth is free of tyranny. Yet, the dreaded Decepticon master, the Fallen, seeks claim of Earth, desiring to plunge it into darkness once the final Prime has been killed.
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The promise that one shall stand and one shall fall was instrumental in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and it was impossible to not turn up to theaters to see Optimus Prime on the big screen, even if that came with his tragic death. The story of death and resurrection will always be one of stupendous hype, and Revenge of the Fallen did better financially than its predecessor simply because of the excitement around its action and its focus on Optimus’ defeat.
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2 Transformers: Age of Extinction
Worldwide Gross: $1,105,261,713
Director | Michael Bay |
Release Date | 5 July 2014 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 18% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 50% |
After the climax of Dark of the Moon, many expected the Transformers franchise to take a rest, yet that wasn’t the case when Michael Bay exploded into the scene, bringing forth a Cybertronian bounty hunter to eradicate remaining Cybertron refugees and Autobots that seek a home on Earth.
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Michael Bay returns to the Transformers franchise in a fourth movie that many didn’t expect to happen. Again, it’s no surprise that Age of Extinction ended up crossing the billion-dollar mark when one considers how successful the franchise had been, and how instrumental the hype was for yet another Transformers movie where Optimus Prime takes charge of the Dinobots.
1 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Worldwide Gross: $1,123,794,079
Director | Michael Bay |
Release Date | 29 June 2011 |
Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score | 35% |
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score | 55% |
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The epic Transformers trilogy comes to an end with Optimus Prime discovering the hibernating body of Sentinel Prime on the Moon. Yet, with Sentinel’s awakening, the war of Cybertron comes directly to Earth, promoting further threats to humanity and Autobots alike in this action-packed finale.
Capping off a trilogy is usually an exciting feat that gets people talking, so it’s no surprise that Michael Bay’s third Transformers movie received the attention it did. Everything was shaping up to be the conclusion to the Autobots vs Decepticon war that ravished Earth, and a potential final goodbye to Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and the other icons of the live-action series was one that had people in theaters.
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