Guff cover art. GREAT film!

Movie was okay, may or may not get.  

Though I wonder why they don't have Zeus on the cover art instead of the cow-boxing bot.

XxFreakxX wrote: This movie was okay. Nothing special and not really emotional which is what I guess the filmmakers were trying to get to. The kid in the movie has to be one of the most irritating child characters ever. I wanted to punch him across the face at so many points in the film. Hugh Jackman was great, though. Like the cover, but they should of went with Atom and Zeus as the two robots on the cover. Or Atom and Noisy Boy.

After an hour, I couldn't take this pile of s**t. Boring, nonsensical, irritating. I absolutely hated everything about this movie. Even "Transformers" was better and even that wasn't anything to write home about. (I'm talking about the first by the way, not the abysmal second or third installment).

Nothing special mere entertainment... C**P cover art

OK, I might be a little biased because a large chunk of this movie was filmed in my hometown of Detroit, but it was exciting to see so many familiar areas on the big screen so that was a bit of a rush for me.

That aside though, I thought this was a hell of a fun movie. Yes, it's totally schmaltzy and the blurb on the cover "Rocky with robots" is not just hyperbole, they dang near lifted the entire Rocky/Apollo dynamic and simply made them robots. If you know how Rocky ended, then you know how Real Steel ends.

That still wasn't  a deal-breaker for me though because for what it is, it just works here. I left the theater feeling pretty good, which was the intent. Hugh is great as ever, and I know I'm probably very much in the minority but I thought the kid's performance was just fine, I really enjoyed the relationship that developed between them.

Might be a bit intense in spots, (there's one scene where hugh AND the kid both get beaten up that I wasn't prepared for) but overall I think it's ok to take the family to. I had my kids with me and they went out of their minds for it!

Also, it's got what I think is one of the better Danny Elfman scores to come along in a while, I actually went and bought the score from iTunes and it's got some great and really rousing pieces in it.