Astroboy

Rating:
For a movie that I hadn’t heard was coming out till three days before; Astroboy was a thrilling children’s film. It is about a robot clone of a child loaded with a positive blue energy. Pinocchio style, the robot boy thinks he is real, and rejected by his father the boy retreats to “the surface”. Metro City is a metropolis in the sky where robots are slaves to humans – they do all the dirty work like cleaning up and so on – and are then cast away to the rubbish heap that humans have turned Earth into miles below the city. He is forced to return when another robot (powered with the by-product of the blue energy; negative red energy) starts to destroy the floating Metro city.

Directed by David Bowers this animation has a great cast with Nicholas Cage, Freddie Highmore, Donald Sutherland and Kristen Bell. Although the animation isn’t on par with companies like Pixar this movie is very entertaining for children and adults alike. With great fight scenes for kids, nostalgia for parents and plenty of innuendo for us immature teens. There are characters that lovable (a very persistent robot dog called trashcan) and some that are meant to be hated.

Produced by IMAGI animation studios it was an enjoyable film to watch but wasn’t up to the recent film standards of say; Avatar or Monsters vs. Aliens.

Director: David Bowers
Animators: IMAGI animation studios
Starring: Nicholas Cage, Freddie Highmore, Donald Sutherland, Kristin Bell
Duration: 94mins
Genre: Action/Adventure/Animation/Sci-fi

Tags: animation, Film, Reviews