What surprises me the most about Real Steel is the way this film featuring robots evoked
such sentimental feelings in me — similar to the way I reacted to WALL * E, that marvelous animated movie about a trash - collecting robot.
Not exact matches
What the piece perhaps aims to prove is that so much of what one would assume is CGI was shot practically (
such as the motorboat sequence and the fire stunts), though it's also a love letter to a close - knit production whose sometimes drippily
sentimental narration gives it the
feeling of a video meant for private screening at the wrap party.
The film, though apparently set in the present day, lacks the plugged - in vibrancy of recent teen films
such as «Superbad» or the underrated «The Girl Next Door,» leaving «I Love You, Beth Cooper»
feeling more like a
sentimental look back than a more lively expression of contemporary youth.
Sentimental reasons
such as «so our children can see the turtles» don't really count because not everyone
feels that way.