Set a few years ahead, Charlie Kenton is a washed up former boxer who wants to make a comeback. In the meantime, he makes a living as a robot-fight promoter and builds robots from scrap - ironic, since it's because of these robots that he lost his chance to be in the ring. Eventually, he ends up teaming up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship robot boxer.
This CGI/live movie features the acting skills of Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, and Dakota Goyd as the young son. Dany Elfman, one of Hollywood's music geniuses, was in charge of the music. The line up is good, the graphics are killer, the storyline is different - and entertaining for young adults and adults like. That being said, I wouldn't agree with this movie being called a "family movie" as I have read in previews of this movie - at least not MY family. It does have it's share of violence - even if a lot of it is CGI - and it's share of bad language. However, both my DH and I enjoyed it as adults.
The movie is being released as a two disc set. The regular DVD contains the movie, as well as a few special features - some bloopers, several mini featurettes "Making of Metal Valley" and "Building the Bots", as well as some audio commentary with director Shawn Levy. The Blu-Ray disc contains the Blu-Ray version of the movie and the same special features on the DVD disc, as well as some extra deleted and extended scenes with introductions by director Shawn Levy, a featurette on boxer "Sugar Ray Leonard: Cornerman's Champ", "Countdown to The Fight: The Charlie Kenton Story" - which gives you kind of a background on the main character of the movie, and the super neat "Real Steel Second Screen: Ringside With Director Shawn Levy", which allows you to explore interactive content with your iPad or computer while you watch the movie.
I love these two disc sets that contain both the DVD and the Blu-Ray - if you don't already have a Blu-Ray player, you save money by not having to re-buy all your movies, plus you can play the regular DVD on computers and portable DVD players while traveling or just on the go.
Real Steel is available now wherever Blu-Rays and DVD's are sold. Rated PG-13, the total running time (not including special features) is 127 minutes long. The suggested retail price is $39.99, but Amazon has it available for $22.99 as of this posting. (Netflix users: this title will be available on DVD, so add it to your queue)
I received a copy of this DVD in order to view it and share my thoughts on it. All opinions are my own.
2 comments:
Loved that movie, it was great.
I have to agree that it's not appropriate for really young children. And Hugh Jackman was wearing far too much clothing for me to enjoy it for myself. I mean, why have such a hot man in a movie if you're going to cover all of him up, all of the time? However The Husband found it very entertaining.
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