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  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 54 m

Summary Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club under the leadership of their school's newest teacher, Fredi (George Lopez). With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot- they l...

Directed By: Sean McNamara

Written By: Joshua Davis, Elissa Matsueda

  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 54 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 54 m
Spare Parts
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club under the leadership of their school's newest teacher, Fredi (George Lopez). With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT. On their journey, they learn not only how to build a robot- they l...

Directed By: Sean McNamara

Written By: Joshua Davis, Elissa Matsueda

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Positive
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60% Mixed
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13% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
50
27% Positive
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60% Mixed
9 Reviews
13% Negative
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75
Jan 16, 2015
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.
By Tirdad Derakhshani FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 17, 2015
Even though it’s easy to identify all the recycled elements — bits and pieces of several inspirational-teacher scenarios, ranging from “To Sir, With Love” to “Stand and Deliver” — in this “based on a true story” concoction, there can be no denying the feel-good effect of the finished product.
By Joe Leydon FULL REVIEW

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Jan 15, 2015
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.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 20, 2015
In its mad hurry, the movie denies itself its own genre pleasures—chiefly, the ways assembling a ragtag robotics team and an equally ragtag robot might add a little bit of Mission: Impossible or MacGyver dynamics into a sports-style narrative.
By Jesse Hassenger FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 16, 2015
The issue of so-called “illegals” could not be more timely and, if Spare Parts does anything, it attempts to humanize the situation of those children who cope with this limbo-land existence without having had much choice in the matter.
By Susan Wloszczyna FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 17, 2015
This blatantly big-hearted product isn't half as vibrant as the original 2005 Wired article on which it's based, and myopically neglects to address Arizona's troubling anti-immigration legislation through even a splash of hindsight.
By Aaron Hillis FULL REVIEW
30
Jan 15, 2015
The movie’s setup has underdog appeal in spades. But it’s all for naught in a screenplay, by Elissa Matsueda (working from Joshua Davis’s 2005 article in Wired magazine), that plays down intellect in favor of corn and cliché.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment, Circle of Confusion, Indieproduction, Pantelion Films, Televisa Films
Release Date Jan 16, 2015
Duration 1 h 54 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline It takes a team to build a dream
Website https://www.facebook.com/SparePartsMovie
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Imagen Foundation Awards
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations

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