When it comes to embracing a movie as superficially stupid as Shawn Levy‘s Real Steel, liking to loving it is almost like going through the stages of grief. Watching talented performers like Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, and newcomer Dakota Goyo make you invest in the tale of a boy and his robot boxer does lead to denial (“wait, how can I like a Shawn Levy Movie about boxing robots?”), anger (“This movie is manipulative!”, bargaining (“it works in spite of itself”), depression (“maybe it’s just the state of the industry, that the bell curve has been so lowered that Shawn Levy makes better movies than most now.”) and acceptance. Real Steel works, and it works the audience over in a crowd-pleasing way.

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Move over Fanning, there’s a new Dakota in town and it’s 11 year old Dakota Goyo. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the young actor has been signed to play Hugh Jackman’s son in Shawn Levy’s new film, Real Steel. Every child actor in town was trying to get their hands on this part, and little Goyo scooped it up!

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