The best robot movies, actually, do both, marrying the spectacular with the profound. It’s not an easy task, but Real Steel , Hugh Jackman’s robot-boxing movie that opens in theaters Oct. 7 ...

Movie review: 'Real Steel' a piece of scrap metal. ... "Real Steel" dresses up a bad idea – robots boxing – with all the computer effects and heavy-metal action that Hollywood can buy.

So, perhaps “Real Steel” — which was shot entirely in southeastern Michigan — is this generation’s “Over the Top,” but, you know, with robot boxing instead of Stallone arm wrestling.

"Real Steel" dresses up a bad idea — robots boxing — with all the computer effects and heavy-metal action that Hollywood can buy. But that doesn't cover up the fact that it's a bad idea.

"Real Steel" is a middle-of-the-night Oreo binge of a movie. Attempts at educational value and serious drama are half-hearted. The filmmaking is relentlessly straightforward, as if machines were ...

Learn more about the full cast of Real Steel with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide. ... But when the robot is destroyed, they go to a scrap yard to get parts.

And now the world has Real Steel, a movie not about robots doing the robot dance necessarily — although it certainly happens — but a movie about robots boxing. Here’s how it happened: A ...

Take “Transformers,” add a pinch of “Rocky,” a dash of “The Champ,” a gallon of schmaltz, a pound of saccharine, a bushel of hokum, mix it all together and you have “Real Steel ...

A new alternate reality game for the Real Steel movie launched at PAX last week introduces participants to a world where big personalities in sports are overshadowed by the bigger robots they ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Hugh Jackman has belted out songs on Broadway, fought mutants and ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. The set-up is nothing new. We’ve got hard-luck ex-boxer Charlie (Hugh Jackman), a robot-boxing promoter who’s living on ...

Real Steel: It's a robot boxing movie with feeling.That's the dominant talking point when it comes to this weekend's film release starring Hugh Jackman as a dad in the near future who bonds with ...