Spare Parts (2015)
Storyline
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.
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Reviews
75
It is the four young actors who play the students who truly shine, and who elevate the formulaic film above and beyond its familiar proceedings.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
At times, Spare Parts sails perilously close to the saccharine. But the film is a fine example of a message movie that does justice both to its important subject matter and to its characters' inner lives.
70
Director Sean McNamara's film is impressively buoyed by a cast of young newcomers and seasoned pros.
60
Arizona Republic
Spare Parts is the kind of feel-good underdog movie that almost can't help getting waylaid by cliches.
60
The immigration-themed messages of acceptance and encouragement are clearly spelled out, often in heavy-handed fashion, and an overriding blandness mutes the drama. But there’s also something apt in the straightforward telling of the against-the-odds adventure.
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