It's been almost 20 years since director Michael Bay kicked off the Transformers live-action movie franchise back in 2007. Since then, the series has grown to seven films that have adapted just about all the classic Autobots and Decepticons, and even the Maximals as of 2023's Rise of the Beasts, meaning it can be hard to figure out exactly how to watch the Transformers movies in order.
The seven Transformers movies cross multiple timelines and eras, even switching back and forth from live-action to animation and back, with the latest film in the franchise, 2024's animated Transformers One, serving as a prequel set on the Transformers homeworld of Cybertron telling the story of how Optimus Prime and Megatron became arch-enemies as the leaders of two warring factions.
