Original Soundtrack - Transformers: The Movie [2007 Live Action] (CD)

All Music Guide

Director Michael Bay's bigbudget rendering of the '80s cartoon/department store Christmas heroes of the same name goes the superhero/comic book soundtrack route by releasing a separate compilation of songs that either appear in the film for a few seconds or not at all. Transformers: The Movie features HiM, Disturbed, Taking Back Sunday and the Used, all of whom are taking the highway to the Kenny Loggins danger zone with all of these "music inspired by" collections. Only the Goo Goo Dolls with their trademark midtempo balladry are able to penetrate the altmetal/postgrunge gloom, providing the giant robots with a weepy American Idolinspired, postboot retrospective called "Before It's Too Late" that will find legions of new fans in the middle school slow dance circuit.

- James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide