Given my somewhat idiosyncratic taste in family films, I should probably start this review with a disclaimer — if you thought I was crazy for championing “Meet the Robinsons” and “Mr. Magorium’s ...
"Astro Boy" takes place on a floating city called Metro City. The main characters are a boy named Tody and his dad, Dr. Temma. At the beginning of the movie, Toby was absorbed by the Peacekeeper, an ...
Toby flees the floating, gleaming Metro City and lands back on the now-trashed Earth, where he becomes known as Astro Boy. There, he meets other orphaned children who grubbily root around for spare ...
Astro Boy, the new film based on a Japanese comic book and cartoon series from the 1950s and '60s, seems to have gotten it backwards. The fun and merriment take a backseat to the sci-fi elements, ...
The animated “Astro Boy” is a shiny hodgepodge of “Pinocchio,” ”WALL-E,” ”Oliver Twist,” ”Gladiator” and “Superman,” with some obvious visual touches taken from “The Iron Giant.” As its own entity, ...
If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. For a movie about robots, Astro Boy is surprisingly wooden. But that’s not to say it doesn’t ...
Given my somewhat idiosyncratic taste in family films, I should probably start this review with a disclaimer — if you thought I was crazy for championing “Meet the Robinsons” and “Mr. Magorium’s ...
Appropriately for a film about robots, efficiency is the primary virtue of “Astro Boy,” a well-oiled CG-animated superhero pic that makes up in competence and vitality what it lacks in originality.
LOS ANGELES — The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator" and "Superman," with some obvious visual touches taken from "The Iron Giant." As its ...