Guys, I’m really worried about Hugh Jackman. I’ll assume he enjoys the financial security and self satisfaction that comes with being a famous actor, the pinnacle of human achievement in some circles, but is everything OK? Is he in some money trouble we don’t know about? Is someone blackmailing him? Seriously guys, does anyone know if he owes the gay mafia money? Or the real mafia? Does a studio executive somewhere have pictures of him french kissing a dog? Because really, aside from blackmail or a secret gambling problem we don’t yet know about, there is absolutely no logical explanation for his part in Real Steel a shamefully cheesy action film that look like Transformers, Avatar and the UFC got a movie script pregnant.
How cheesy? To the plot! Jackman plays washed up boxer Charlie Kenton, a down on his luck promoter who bonds with his son by building a robot from scrap metal and teaching it how to fight because…I have no idea. The plot doesn’t really matter because the sole appeal is in watching giant CGI robots fight each other.
