Astro Boy. Boring, dull and only 93 minutes long. In an attempt to resurrect the Japanese animated TV show from the 50's, Hollywood falls flat...again. The story of a technically brilliant, but emotionally crippled scientist, whose son dies in a terrible accident in his lab. The scientist, in his grief, builds a robot avatar of his son, and through the magic of....well, they call it science, but it's magic, the scientist places his son's memories and personality into the robot. After a short period, and realizing what he has done, the scientist discards the perfect recreation of his recently dead son, who then goes and discovers his place in the world on his own. At the mental age of 10...alone...after having his father completely REJECTING AND ABANDONING HIM TO HIS FACE. *cough*bulls**t*cough*. Making matters worse, this robot child can fly andis armed to the teeth. What a pile of crap.
Nicolas Cage plays the horrifically callous Dr. Tenma, Freddie Highmore is his son/creation Toby, Bill Nighy is fellow scientist Dr. Elefun, and Donald Sutherland plays President Stone. Stone, by the way, is the one man whose actions were the direct cause of Toby's initial death. Nathan Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Kristen Bell, Matt Lucas and Alan Tudyk also lend their vocal talents as well.
This is just a bad reboot of a pretty good cartoon. The emotional nightmare that this movie puts its children through is unbelievable, and I was simply not a fan. Skip it and watch a Pixar movie to see how these are supposed to be done. 2.5/10.
See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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