Real Steel: It's a robot boxing movie with feeling. That's the dominant talking point when it comes to this weekend's film release starring Hugh Jackman as a dad in the near future who bonds with his son as the two transform a discarded robot into a championship boxer. As a father myself, says Anthony Breznican at Entertainment Weekly, of a daughter who's equally interested in princesses and robots, a film like this, that doesn't pander to stereotypes and has more to it "than just the spectacle of flying sparks," can't come soon enough. These days, he says, "girls made from sugar, and spice, and everything nice should have a little iron mixed in as well." An excerpt:
Why aren’t robots and sci-fi the kind of thing that all kids can enjoy regardless of gender, like Elmo, macaroni and cheese, or misbehaving?…
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