"[H]ere Bay makes his best, most flexible use yet of all the flamboyant bigness at his command: Computer-drawn characters and human actors seem to occupy the same narrative for once."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (07/08/2011)
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he clever hook provides a secure foundation for Bay's customary bombast..."
Total Film - Neil Smith (09/01/2011)
"The picture wears its ambitions on its whirring, rumbling, clanking, heavily CGI'd sleeve, and it pretends to be nothing more than it is: a honking, 40-karat piece of entertainment..."
Movieline - Stephanie Zacharek (06/30/2011)
"Bay has delivered a leaner, meaner, cleaner 3-D rage against the machines."
Los Angeles Times - Betsy Sharkey (06/29/2011)