BS Anime Reviews: Astro Boy

My review of the CGI animated film based on Osamu Tezuka's infamous iconic anime character, "Astro Boy" the movie. Starring the vocal talents of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, Kristen Bell, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane and Eugene Levy.

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[Custom09]

the art style was exactly the same! At least for the main characters! Sheeesh! Now you're going to tell me Metropolis (the anime) looks gay too. The art style is completely unique and looks great!

[BionicSlime]

I personally never cared for the character designs in Metropolis either and I LOVE that movie. Look it's nothing spiteful, every anime has its own personal style and I'm sorry but I just never cared for this particular style, it's not my cup of tea.

[phatmarty21]

its manga dumm ass!

[BionicSlime]

Oh relax its just a misspoken word, I'm not perfect.

[soflabob]

Yes, Astro Boy is built after the death of Doctor Tenma's son is killed - so it does follow the original manga and anime of the same name ^_^

I just saw it and the animation, story and action were all thought out very well!

[MrTEZUKAFOREVER]

astro boy was around longer than gigantor

[slashermaster28]

@phatmarty21 That is how it's pronounced in Japan.

[neomysterio]

30 second intro. FUCK ME!

[Ryanmiller70]

9/10. This movie was great. The only problem I have with this movie is that I wish Astro would have learned about all his powers before the final fight. It got really annoying when he was fighting and he had just learned that he can fire energy blasts out of his hands and that he has machine guns in his butt. They could have easily had him learn these powers in the robot arena.

[UTAU53Yui]

@SweetGerri The names are interchangeable, but his real name is Atom. (Which is why his siblings' names are Uran[ium] and Cobalt)

[SweetGerri]

@UTAU53Yui I thought his name was Astro....

[UTAU53Yui]

@phatmarty21 He pronounced it correctly

"dumm ass!!1!"

[UTAU53Yui]

@Custom09 No, it really wasn't. Atom without eyelashes, sorry, just isn't Atom. Of course, the movie was adored in America because we think that boys who are cute or nice are gay. We sulleyed the pure angel that was Tetsuwan Atom.

[CitrusLily10]

That's like in the movie Artificial Intelligence, the scientist's son dies so he makes a robot copy.

[UberNoodleX]

The Astro in the Japanese version was redone with a model more similar to the Japanese design, rather than the "older" version in the US/HK version.

[Masquarette]

Personally I though Nicholas Cage was a terrible choice for Tenma. As I remember him, Tenma was stern and cold by nature and struggled to be a good father. After Tobi's death he starts to lean toward dementia and ultimately was the nuclear antagonist of the show. Nicholas Cage was too soft for me. Freddie Highmore however was perfect. The character he created was not only extremely charismatic if not sympathetic, but also a well balanced amalgam of the 1980s and 2003 versions of Astro.