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Astro Boy
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Item Description...
Product Description
SET IN FUTURISTIC METRO CITY, ASTRO BOY IS ABOUT A YOUNG ROBOT WITH INCREDIBLE POWERS CREATED BY A BRILLIANT.
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Are heroes born or made? How does one go about finding one's true destiny? Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage), a revered scientist on the floating paradise known as Metro City, has recently created a technologically advanced robot in the image of his late son Toby in an effort to assuage his overwhelming grief. Far from an average robot, his creation (Freddie Highmore) is a thinking, feeling robot endowed with the memories and emotions of the real Toby and powered by a unique blue core energy recently discovered by Dr. Tenma's good friend Dr. Elefun (Bill Nighy). Despite his efforts, Dr. Tenma quickly discovers that his new creation will never replace his human son, and he coldly casts him aside. Being a thinking, feeling robot, the robot boy sets off in search of a place where he might fit in, and his journey lands him below Metro City, on the surface of the wasteland known as Earth, where he is befriended first by a trio of rebellious robots who dub him Astro Boy and later by a group of human orphans led by the robot repairman Dr. Hamegg (Nathan Lane). Although Astro Boy fully intends to confess his robotic origins to the humans, circumstances prevent the disclosure, and his first real friendships are tainted by the underlying deception. Meanwhile, back in Metro City, President Stone (Donald Sutherland) launches a campaign to destroy Astro Boy in an effort to steal the blue core energy and use it with its opposing and very unstable red core energy to guarantee his reelection. In the end, Astro Boy's real ancestry comes to light, and his relationships with the humans and his very existence are threatened. It also falls to Astro Boy to save Metro City from certain destruction at the hands of President Stone. Based on the 1950s Japanese manga and the 1960s Astro Boy Japanese animated television series commonly credited as the first anime cartoon, Astro Boy is an engaging, action-packed film about self-discovery and pursuing one's destiny. While there's a healthy amount of violence and peril in the film, it's generally appropriate for ages 7 and older. --Tami Horiuchi
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Item Specifications...
Record Label Summit Entertainment
Format AC-3 / Color / Dolby / DVD / NTSC /
Dimensions: Length: 5.4" Width: 7.5" Height: 0.7"
Weight: 0.25 lbs.
Binding DVD Video
Publisher Summit Entertainment
ISBN 0012635588
EAN 0025192058417
UPC 025192058417
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Availability 5 units.
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 | astroboy May 19, 2010 |
| The product was in great condition. The service was wonderful. I received my product in a timely manner. I was very pleased overall and would recommend this seller to my friends. | | |  | Astro Boy gives new meaning to the term "Uncanny Valley" (Spoiler Warning) May 17, 2010 |
When I purchased this movie, I had it in mind to watch it with my 3-year-old son, which I did. My son liked it ok, but I was put off by it. The coldness of the characters (especially the human characters) brings a whole new meaning to the term "uncanny valley," which traditionally means something intended to look like a human, but falls short in such a way that looks creepy. In this case, it applies to the emotional aspects of the characters, rather than the physical.
(The following paragraphs contain SPOILERS for early scenes in the movie).
You never really get to know Toby before he dies, so it's easy to emotionally detach yourself from his death. My son was not so disturbed by it as he is too young to understand much of the plot. Despite the cold, detached way the movie portrayed these scenes, I was disturbed. Not because of the death of Toby, mind you. I was disturbed as a father whose greatest fears are portrayed in this movie in a way I can't empathize with. It made me feel uncomfortable to be so detached. Add to that the fact that the writer/director chickens out on Toby's death and makes him just disappear, literally in a flash of light, so that it takes a few moments to understand that he died. Toby's father, Dr. Tenma (a very blah Nicholas Cage) doesn't react to Toby's death in a way that makes the death (let alone his reaction to it) seem believable. All you get from him is, "Where's my son? Where's Toby," spoken in a tone that reminds me of Willy Wonka's, "Don't. Stop. Come back." Then he forces himself to whimper over Toby's hat. There is no funeral; no semblance of actual grieving before Dr. Tenma is seen creating a robotic replacement some days later.
After a couple of short scenes with Dr. Tenma and Astro Boy at home (not spending much time with eachother, though), and with no further character development, Dr. Tenma rejects Astro Boy for not being like Toby. His explanation being that something is different about him -- he's not Toby.
What the heck?! They seemed the same to me! There was no way to know what was so different about Astro Boy that he could just throw him out like that. He was the same kid! Sure, he was modified with rockets for feet and machine guns that stick out of his butt so that he can escape death, but otherwise, Astro Boy seemed just as human and boy-like as Toby or any other boy in this celluloid universe. These characters have no soul.
In the original comic book, Dr. Tenma was more harsh toward Astro Boy and chased him away with a shovel. I think I would have preferred that, because then you at least have some semblance of REAL EMOTION. When compared to coldly telling him "I don't want you," the comic book showed Dr. Tenma as a human who is suffering from his failed attempt to cope.
In the movie, the characters merely react to their emotions, but do not express them in a way that makes their actions seem genuine.
If you ask me what was good about this movie, it's the fact that my son loved the robots, the Astro Boy character, and I can't say he was distressed about any of the events in the movie. Ham Egg (Nathan Lane) was one of two characters that I felt had substance. He reminded me a bit of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. The other character of substance was Dr. Elefun, who seemed to be the only person with any real emotion or conscience, but no guts. There are also a couple of impressive scenes that exhibit the environment, as well as Astro Boy's powers, but other than that, the movie was just a dud. | | | | Diamond in the rough May 8, 2010 |
In a cinematic world of direct to video cheap SciFi, god awful horror remakes, or mindless schlock winning this year's Oscar, it's nice to see that something like Astro Boy gets made. Once in a blue moon a picture will be released and because of lousy promotion its out of the theater before you know it. After having bought the DVD, I could not believe how good this movie really is. Even though this movie is 3D animated and aimed at kids, it has a maturity all its own to appeal to adults. Don't get me wrong, it extremely tame possessing only very mild violence and no offensive language.
The story is simple. A professor's son dies and he makes a robot boy to replace him. Because the professor wanted to recreate his own son, Astro is eventually rejected by him due to the fact that he really isn't his son. That's when the story takes off and we follow along with Astro Boy's adventures. It ends with a confrontation with a big evil robot controlled by an overly ambitious politician after Astro Boy's technology. Certainly, the story is predictable in nature, but its pacing, characters, and light hearted sentiments make an interesting enjoyable journey.
These days 3D rendered movies are standard kids fare. In this case, the subjects of the film are transcended into a techno fairytale that is beautiful to watch. Originally, Astro Boy was an animation adapted from Japanese Comics that came over with the likes of Kimba, Speed Racer, and Gigantor. Maybe its poor peformance in the theater had something to do with that connection to Speed Racer that was adapted to one of the worst movies made this century. Astro Boy is not anything like the Speed Racer movie and is like a shiney silver dollar that you never knew you had. Check out this wonderful gem of a picture!! | | | | Astro Boy May 5, 2010 |
| Very good story and it's way better to watch in blu-ray than in the movie house!!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! | | | | astro Boy May 3, 2010 |
| Kid friendly CD. My 13 year old daughter loves it. It was in perfect condition. | | | Write your own review about Astro Boy
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