Comments on: Movie Review: Astro Boy (2009)

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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:34:39 +0000

[...] in this ‘re-invention’ (in the same way I was devastated with what Hollywood did with Astro Boy), but I didn’t have such a [...]

By: DTU

DTU — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:05:19 +0000

Good stuff man. I saw it a few nights ago and thought the exact same thing: It’s a children’s movie through and through, a hugely unoriginal and derivitive one at that. I’m not even familiar with the original and I still hated it.

And now they’re working on a Gatchaman movie (Which looks a lot darker so might actually be ok) and a Tetsujin 28 movie (Which I actually AM familiar with: The trailer of which made me want to pry my eyes out for the amount of source material murder they’d commited within the TRAILER.)

By: pacejmiller

pacejmiller — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:07:08 +0000

Yeah, I couldn’t help myself. It was Astro Boy!

You’re telling me. I almost started crying halfway through the movie because I was so disappointed by it. I liked Gladiator and AI too, but why put them in the Astro Boy movie?

Atlas was also my fave! And no, he wasn’t in it. Not even close. I used to love the dynamics between human and robot in the anime but the movie doesn’t capture those emotions. Unfortunate.

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:13 +0000

So you return to work finally and the first thing you do is……. leave early to go watch a movie? Haha! That’s awesome.

Now, are you frakking kidding me? I’ve been dying to see Astro Boy since I first saw the teaser trailer! My childhood died a little the more I read your review. (Btw, I thought Gladiator was good and A.I was interesting until Steven Spielberg ruined it with that stupid ending)

It can’t possibly be worse than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Was Atlas even in it? He was always my fave character. I’m sad now. I’ll still go see it, I must see this horror for myself.