The neglectful, borderline - abusive father and impudent son squabble and then bond, particularly after they find a relatively small, primitive
robot in a junkyard, which Max insists on getting into fighting shape.
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.
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
He's been discovered
in a
junkyard by Charlie Kenton, played by Hugh Jackman, a washed - up
robot trainer and ex-fighter who
in this bland futureworld coaches souped - up «bots to bash the jeepers out of each other.
Hope arrives
in the form of a sparring
robot named Atom: left
in a
junkyard and uncovered during a semi-illegal scrounging session.
The ending has the right feel of resolution, but it's still a question how much of a rooting interest audiences will take
in robots trying to send one another to the
junkyard.
Who: Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly and Anthony Mackie What: Set
in the near future where
robots have replaced humans
in the ring, a former boxer and his estranged son discover a
junkyard bot that could become champion.
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.