Sentences with phrase «on robot boxing»

Then an old girlfriend dies, and Charlie must reluctantly care for his 11 - year - old son, Max (Dakota Goyo), a surly youth big on the robot boxing.

Not exact matches

He also gets stuck with the boy for a summer, but the kid turns out to be a robot - boxing geek, and together they spend their limited time and money rehabbing a junkyard robot and taking it out on the underground circuit.

Eventually Jackman's character grudgingly acquieses to actually doing something right in readying his robot for a fight, but wins by falling back on his boxing skills to win in the ring.

It's a boy's - own - men's - own fantasy and together, these all - American underdog guys take their robot all the way to the robot - boxing final where they take on a slick über - bot invented and managed by Tak Mashido and Ferra Lemkova: a suspect Japanese - type foreigner and an unappealing thin - faced witch.

Charlie is a down - and - out former boxer turned sleazy fight promoter on the underground robot boxing circuit in a world where machines have replaced humans as prizefighting combatants.

And yet, as loathe as I am to admit it, the robot boxing matches are far more compelling than they have any right to be, the finale is family - film rousing, and in the last act, Hugh Jackman turns on that irresistible Lipton Iced Tea commercial charm.

The film stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo and Atom as, respectively, the - down - on - his - luck - former - boxer - turned - fighting - robot manager, the almost - given - up - on - romance - but - I - can - fix - any - broken - bot - you - drag - in - here beauty, the I - wish - I - had - a-better-dad-but-at-least-he's - in - the - robot - game kid and the won't - someone - just - believe - in - me blue - eyed boxing bot.

We speak with star Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy on the Detroit set of this DreamWorks adventure about the intriguing world of robot boxing.

Based on a short story by Richard Matheson, Real Steel follows Hugh Jackman's Charlie Kenton as he and his estranged son (Dakota Goyo's Max) attempt to win a string of boxing matches with their oversized robot - with the film detailing both the various fights that ensue and the growing bond between Charlie and Max.

There are moments in Real Steel where I forgot I'd already seen enough movies about fighting robots, forgot I was too old to be the target audience, forgot that I think Hugh Jackman is turning smarmier with every passing film, forgot that overly expressive child actors set my teeth on edge, forgot to think about all the other underdog / boxing / father - son movies this one is ripping off.

Screenwriter John Gatins will return to write the follow - up to Hugh Jackman's robot boxing adventure, which hits theaters on October 7.

Set in the future world of 2020, where human boxing is not allowed and robots are manipulated to be boxers, the alcoholic and washed - up fighter Charlie Kenton, once a promising ex-fighter but now on the skids, handles giant steel robots in the boxing ring in underground venues.

I don't know where robot boxing falls on your moral spectrum, but I'd take a pre-teen to see Real Steel, as long as we had a long talk afterwards about the evils of product placement.

The new featurette for «Real Steel» touches on the sport of robot boxing and how a combination of effects were used to bring the film's metallic characters to life.

Real Steel follows down - on - his - luck robot boxing manager, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who drifts from place to place and fight to fight, racking up gambling debts and enemies, until he is notified that the mother of his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo) has died - leaving the boy orphaned.

Based on Richard Matheson's 1956 short story «Steel,» Real Steel isn't an action adventure about giant war robots, it's a much more intimate story about an estranged father and son - as well as their not - so - giant boxing robot.

And no matter how cool the robot boxing scenes may look, this is what ultimately sold me on the potential of «Real Steel.»

Ostensibly based on the same short story that spawned the original Twilight Zone episode «Steel,» it takes no more than the basic premise (a future where human boxing has been replaced with robots, a down - at - heels former boxer trying to get by with failing equipment) and spins a story of father / son bonding and a real jerk of a would - be dad getting a shot at redemption.

Loosely based on Richard Matheson's short story, «Steel» — which the author also adapted for a «Twilight Zone» episode starring Lee Marvin — Levy's film takes place 10 years in the future where robot boxing has become the biggest sport in the world.

Rock «Em Sock «Em Robots is based on the classic toy that featured two plastic robots battling it out in a boxing match.