“Courage is stronger than steel.”

Dreamworks has released some new promo pics (essentially caps from the trailer) and a brand new poster for its Hugh Jackman starrerReal Steel, directed by Shawn Levy.  You’ll notice my lack of exclamation points and enthusiasm. That poster is so bad you can’t even tell that’s (the lovely) Hugh Jackman. It looks like Richard Armitage to me. And that’s just wrong. Please don’t misunderstand, I love Richard Armitage, but he and Hugh Jackman are very different people. I should not be able to confuse the two.

Dreamworks, you know I adore you. You gave the world How to Train Your Dragon so I can’t ever quit you completely, but come on. I know Detroit needs the money, but couldn’t you have chosen a better vehicle to showcase their film industry? Something along the lines of Relativity’s Machine Gun Preacher perhaps? I could be wrong, lord knows I’ve been wrong before, but this looks like pure caca.

The synopsis: In the “future”, where robot boxing is a popular sport, a struggling promoter (Jackman) thinks he’s found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.

Get out the hankies.

Real Steel also stars Evangeline Lily (who claimed she was going to quit acting after “Lost”. This is what she chose to do instead), Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand, James Rebhorn, Phil LaMarr and Hope Davis. It opens in Canada and the US on October 7 and in the UK on 14 October.

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