But when he's reunited with his estranged 10 - year - old son, Max (Dakota Goyo), they discover an old sparring bot named
Atom in the junkyard that could turn Charlie's luck around and bring him closer to his son.
Not exact matches
Charlie and Max bond after finding
Atom, a robot buried
in the
junkyard that is a something of a mystery.
After his latest robot is destroyed, the pair heads to the
junkyard in search for spare parts, only to uncover an older generation sparring bot named
Atom buried
in the wreckage.
And
in the end, the only thing that really matters is that the filmmakers were market - savvy enough to frame
Atom — the
junkyard bot adopted by Goyo's character — as a puppyish, adorably scrappy, Iron Giant - style affection machine and, more importantly, to pair him with Goyo and allow them both to run roughshod over Jackman.
The movie's centerpiece action - packed scene has Charlie and Max's underdog and under - sized
junkyard re-built former sparring boxer robot,
Atom, take on
in a big - time arena the elite world champ Zeus, who is
Hope arrives
in the form of a sparring robot named
Atom: left
in a
junkyard and uncovered during a semi-illegal scrounging session.
Father and son predictably bond over their unlikely next acquisition,
junkyard castoff
Atom, whom Max credits with saving his life
in a close call.
Cobbled together using spare parts,
Atom is every bit the
junkyard robot he's described as — with a face that resembles a fencing mask, bronze hands that look like boxing gloves, and a whirring motor
in his back.