The trailer for Real Steel: Hugh Jackman is gonna eat robot lightnin', crap robot thunder
Should there be any doubt that we're entering the age of the big-ass battlin’ robots—which will also feature movies about big-ass battlin’ robots—allow the just-released trailer for Shawn Levy’s Real Steel (due out next October) to clunk you over your soft, mushy human skull with a big-ass battlin’ robot fist and robot drive some robot sense into you. Hugh Jackman stars as a former boxer in a future where boxers are all but obsolete, replaced with the cold, immutable steel—the real steel, as it were—of machines, which means only one thing: Jackman gets to play Burgess Meredith to a robot Sylvester Stallone, and begin the arduous search for his own redemption in the ring. Well, not in the ring. Just outside of it, holding a remote control. But redemption nonetheless!