Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

SnoopyStyle Toby Tenma is a boy living in the futuristic floating citystate Metro City. It's a world of robots spearheaded by Toby's often-absent father Dr. Tenma, the famous roboticist head of the Ministry of Science. Toby is smart, overconfident and inquisitive. Dr. Elefun discovers a new power source from space called the Blue Core. By developing it, its opposite of chaotic violent energy Red Core is created. Dr. Tenma's weapons test get hijacked by incompetent leader President Stone who installs the Red Core. Toby sneaks in and gets killed by the military robot the Peacekeeper. Suffering from grief, Dr. Tenma creates a robot replacement with Toby's memories and the Blue Core. However he doesn't live up to expectations and Tenma rejects him. President Stone tries to recover the Blue Core but Astro Boy tumbles off the city onto the surface. He finds discarded robots and a bunch of orphans led by Cora and adult Hamegg who thinks that Astro is actually a boy. Hamegg accidentally scans Astro and realizes that he's a robot. Hamegg forces Astro to fight in gladiator bouts with other robots.The biggest problem is that the movie introduces the boy and then kills him off 10 minutes later. They should make Toby a memory instead. This should be only about Astro Boy anyways. Also killing off a boy is something I wouldn't do in a kiddie movie. It's a real bummer. The story owes a lot to Pinocchio and feels unoriginal because of it. The animation is colorful and fun. I'm sure kids could enjoy the energetic visuals. Once Astro Boy gets on the surface, the movie is fine. However this does feel schizophrenic with one part kiddie movie and the other part something more serious.

Nano Maciá I did not see "Astroboy" old animated TV series. So, I had no idea before seeing this film together with my 5 years old son. Although he liked it, I was really disappointed. In "Astroboy", a father first raises his son as a robot, but at that time he is never present (see scene with the dialog between the child and a hologram of his father within the car). Later, once the child dies, the father raises a robot trying to get a child instead. A detestable idea. But he persists in raising something not as a child, giving him books totally inadequate for a child. The story is plagued of scenes of torture on a child: Toby confined in a jail with no windows; Toby suffering explosions of missiles on him; Toby rejected by Dr. Tenma, his father, with rude, direct words; Toby have to fight with an iron monster... and so on. What about the children on the surface? (the third world?)(SPOILER) When Cora finally find her parents, they just say "where were you?" That's all? What is the concept of family or parenthood for the director/writer? In some part, the "revolutionary" robots from the surface tease on the Asimov's laws on robotics. It was very offensive for a talented author as Asimov and their readers as me. Even the pathetic characters of these robots (what they say and how they look) seems a contempt for any revolution. For me, reconciliation between Astroboy and Dr. Temna was a sad ending, not a happy ending. But I could find a positive point in the story: only other children were able to find a human being in a robot seeming a child, not the adults. At less something with hope! (SPOILER) Finally, there are a lot of things too similar to other films: mountains of discharged items from civilization as in "WallE", the very ending with an unexpected alien as in "The Incredibles", the entire process of creation of Astro as in "Frankenstein", the design of the army as in "Star Wars", many resemblances with "The Iron Giant"… Too many coincidences. Good animation technique in fact. But digital animation is not enough to make a good film.

Wizard-8 I must confess I am not an expert when it comes to the "Astro Boy" universe - I've only seen a few episodes of the animated television show, and I have only looked at a few pages of the original manga. So I don't know how close this movie is to the original creation of "Astro Boy". Anyway, I'll start with what I found positive about this movie. First, the animation is pretty good. Maybe not up to Pixar, but it's bright, colorful, and catches your eye. Also, the movie moves along at a brisk clip, never becoming boring at any moment.But at the same time, I felt something was lacking with this movie. I thought about why this was for some time, and I came up with two possible reasons. First, when it comes to the HUMAN side of the movie, often the movie comes short. For example, the death of a key character in the beginning of the movie does not provoke the appropriate emotional response from others. Elsewhere, there were plenty of moments when the characters didn't seem fleshed out enough. The second problem was that the movie doesn't seem to have one clear vision. This probably comes from the fact that the movie was a Hong Kong-Japan-USA co-production. Often, as a result of so many cooks on this project, the movie seems a mix of different sensibilities.If you're interested in computer animation, and/or you're a kid, you'll probably find enough here to entertain you. If you're not, you should probably not go out of your way to watch this. It's not an awful movie, but you will see it could have been a lot better.

Mark Downing This movie is by far one of the best I've seen in recent months - and one of the best animated ones I have seen in my entire lifetime. The story was both captivating and endearing, full of sacrifice and friendship, following the tragic death of Toby Tenma. What may have seemed a simple "replacement" for his son turned out to be far more than that; a kind and loving boy that would capture the hearts of many for his selfless acts. I thought this film had excellent voice acting, especially that provided by Freddie Highmore, but most deserve credit for the job they did. The film achieved a great balance of action and adventure. Humour was also present throughout, and I found President Stone (voiced by Donald Sutherland) especially quirky, like an evil genius of sorts... only not a genius.The animations were aesthetically pleasing, especially during the battle scenes which I found especially satisfying. Watching Toby become more adept with his new-found skills was also a fun experience, especially some of the hidden weapons he found available in his arsenal!The only problem I encountered for this film was the ending - a random alien attack? What is all that about? I thought it would have been better to end it before then, unless they plan on making a sequel to this film.All in all, I thought this was an outstanding animated film and, although not quite as good as others in the field such as Wall-E, this is still a great movie for kids and one I would highly recommend watching.