The Best Damn Movie EVER made, Damn it!
Astro Boy's heritage is from Japanese Manga comics - where the death of a small boy drives his dad to create a robot Pinocchio in reverse. Rather than a puppet getting turned into a boy, the exact opposite is true. The boy is a human/robot with jet-flight capabilities, cool weapons and animated trickery. SUPER COOL!
If the plot sounds too far out there, remember this is Japanese to US comic conversion land. And though the financial numbers don't show that this movie was a commercial success in Japan, it has done very well outside of its origin country... especially in China.
Freddie Highmore's performance is awesome. His voice talent is second to none, and he makes the movie with his outstanding voice-over work.
Check out this Movie-Trailer to see one of the best movie's this year:
If the plot sounds too far out there, remember this is Japanese to US comic conversion land. And though the financial numbers don't show that this movie was a commercial success in Japan, it has done very well outside of its origin country... especially in China.
Freddie Highmore's performance is awesome. His voice talent is second to none, and he makes the movie with his outstanding voice-over work.
Check out this Movie-Trailer to see one of the best movie's this year:
Astro Boy The Movie...
Dr. Tenma (voice by Nicolas Cage), is a professor of robotics who loses his son, Toby, in a terrible accident... so he decides to build a new boy from scratch (ala Frankenstein). But this offspring is a robot boy with rocket packs for shoes that let him fly and a powerful hair-do that is a throw back to Dennis the Menace.
Toby, the son, is soon replace by Astro, the high-flying robot son-de-jour. Strangely both the robot and the now deceased son have the same personality... and voice. A great story, though the overview isn't as moving - but remember this is a 1963 product of early anime.
As you can imagine, this isn't the million-mega-pixel product of Pixar, or the humor of Disney... this is movie based on classic Japanese anime... none-the-less, this new Astro Boy is a fabulous piece of animation with great classic colorization and tone.
As described in on review "Astro gets kicked off Metro City, a spaceship that hovers above Earth, and he lands in a scrap heap of robots and meets some wild-child friends. There's a little too much lost-boys-and-girls mopiness, but when Astro becomes a robot gladiator, the movie turns happy demolition derby, and the virtuoso collisions just keep on coming"
Toby, the son, is soon replace by Astro, the high-flying robot son-de-jour. Strangely both the robot and the now deceased son have the same personality... and voice. A great story, though the overview isn't as moving - but remember this is a 1963 product of early anime.
As you can imagine, this isn't the million-mega-pixel product of Pixar, or the humor of Disney... this is movie based on classic Japanese anime... none-the-less, this new Astro Boy is a fabulous piece of animation with great classic colorization and tone.
As described in on review "Astro gets kicked off Metro City, a spaceship that hovers above Earth, and he lands in a scrap heap of robots and meets some wild-child friends. There's a little too much lost-boys-and-girls mopiness, but when Astro becomes a robot gladiator, the movie turns happy demolition derby, and the virtuoso collisions just keep on coming"
Astro Boy - A boy built for adventure.
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Go Astro Boy!
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