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Review: Real Steel DVD and Blu-Ray

Real Steel Blu-Ray & DVDBack in the summer I got the chance to see the movie Real Steel in a sneak preview. I was very impressed with this movie. It had elements of Rocky, Over The Top, Transformers and The Champ combined. The movie comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray on Tuesday January 24th. The movie is the story of Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who was a professional boxer before the sport became dominated by robots because the audience demanded more and more action. Robots could deal out a tremendous amount of damage on each other that humans could not compete with. So now Charlie is boxing robots (using a sophisticated remote control), lives out of a truck and is a bit of a dirtbag. A loveable dirtbag but a dirtbag none the less. Charlie lies, cheats, steals.

Charlie’s world is turned upside down when his ex-wife dies and he is reconnected with his son. Charlie does not change his ways but rather he takes Max along with him to the seedy underground of unsanctioned robot fights. Luckily Max is pretty smart and he finds an old sparring robot, he makes a connection with the robot and fixes it up enough to begin having it fight.

Even though the robots are a huge part of the story they are a backdrop to a father/son story, personal redemption story and there is some boxing robots in the mix as well. The movie is a lot of fun and is filled with some great action.

The Blu-Ray has even more fun features to expand out the story. There is even a SECOND SCREEN that you can watch on your tablet device while enjoying the movie.

After the jump I have some exclusive videos about the movie as well as the official press release. But before you go there check out this slideshow of great photos from the movie.

Boxing, Bots & Human Co-Stars!

Review: Real Steel toys

I received two Real Steel toys from Jakks Pacific to review. These are toys from the movie Real Steel which I saw back this summer. I got advanced preview tickets and was really excited to see the movie. I left that movie pumped up and excited. It felt like watching the first Rocky movie to me. I loved the storyline even if it was done before in movies like Rocky, The Champ and Over The Top, Throw in a little Transformers and you’ve got the movie. That being said the movie was entertaining and the robots in the movie were pretty sweet to watch in action. Jakks Pacific brings that action to your kids with these movie replica robots that they can play with. Continue reading Review: Real Steel toys