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Astro Boy is a film based on the manga series by Osamu Tezuka, about a teenage robot created by his father after his death. The film follows Astro's adventures in a futuristic city, where he faces a corrupt president and a giant robot threat.
Astro Boy is a 2009 film based on the classic Japanese manga and anime series by Osamu Tezuka. It follows the adventures of a robot boy who seeks to find his identity and become a hero in a futuristic world.
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- Animation, Action, Adventure
- David Bowers
- 2009-10-23
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- David Bowers
- PG
- 32
In futuristic Metro City, a brilliant scientist named Tenma builds Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore), a robotic child with superstrength, X-ray vision and the ability to fly.
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- David Bowers
- PG
- Imagi Animation Studios
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In a 22nd century, Tobio Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state Metro City, which floats above the polluted "Surface" on Earth. Tobio's dad, Dr. Tenma, is a famous roboticist, head of the Ministry of Science, and the reason for Metro City's state of living, but has a distant relationship with his son. One day, after school, Dr. ...
Freddie Highmore as Astro Boy and Tobio Tenma. The titular main protagonist the the film. Astro is a android replica of Tobio, Dr. Tenma's son. He is also Metro City's hero for saving them from the...Nicolas Cage as Dr. Tenma, Tobio's dad, Astro's creator, and the head of the Ministry of Science of Metro City.Kristen Bell as Cora, a teenager girl who lives on the surface and befriends Astro.Samuel L. Jackson as Zog, a 100-year-old construction robot brought back to life by Astro's blue-core energy.Development
In 1997, Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased the film rights to Astro Boy from Tezuka Productions, intending to produce a live-action feature film. Todd Alcott was set to write the screenplay, but the film halted in 2000 when Steven Spielberg began A.I. (2001), another film with a robot boy who replaces a dead child. In December 2001, Sony hired Eric Leighton to direct an all-CGI film, with Angry Films and Jim Henson Productions producing it for a 2004 release. A screenplay draft was writte...
Design
When adapting the film for a western audience and making the leap from 2-D to 3-D, some changes to Astro had to be made. The more challenging was his kawaii portrayal, part of which were his large eyes and curly eyelashes, features that the filmmakers thought made him too feminine. Imagi had several discussions on how round and curvy Astro's body proportions should be and in the end they were made slimmer. The by-product of these changes was Astro's Caucasian look. In early development Astro'...
Music
The score to Astro Boy was composed by John Ottman, who recorded his score with a 95-piece orchestra and choir at Abbey Road Studios. A soundtrack album was released on October 20, 2009, by Varèse Sarabande Records. Songs in Astro Boynot composed by John Ottman are as follows: Breezy Day, composed by Roger-Roger. All Right, written by Daniel Goffey, Gaz Coombes, and Michael Quinn and performed by Supergrass. Marching Down the Field, composed by Harry Edwards.
Marketing
Summit Entertainment partnered with McDonald's to produce marketing tie-ins for Astro Boy. Beginning in May 2009 and continuing through September 2009, IDW Publishing published a "prequel" and comic book adaptation of the film as both mini-series and in graphic novel format to coincide with the North American release of the film in October 2009. A model of a motionless Astro Boy waiting to be powered up was set up at Peak Tower, Hong Kong, outside Madame Tussauds Hong Kong in September 2009....
Home media
Astro Boywas released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on March 16, 2010 by Summit Entertainment. Both releases include two new CGI animated shorts, a featurette with the voice cast, three other featurettes about drawing Astro Boy, making an CGI animated movie and getting the Astro Boy look, and an image gallery. In Japan, a limited edition Astro Boy premium box set was released on April 2, 2010. It featured the same content from the American release with the exception of it spanning t...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 50% based on 139 reviews, with an average score of 5.60/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "While it isn't terribly original, and it seems to have a political agenda that may rankle some viewers, Astro Boyboasts enough visual thrills to please its target demographic." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Owen...
Box office
The film was a flop in Japan, appearing at the bottom of the opening week's Top 10 rankings and earning only $328,457. Conversely, the film was very successful in China, breaking a box-office record for a CGI animated film. This follows the same pattern as Dragonball Evolution (2009) and Speed Racer (2008), other American-produced films based on Japanese sources that were not big hits in the land of their origin but were very successful in China. The film also was a box office bomb in the U.S...
A video game based on the CGI animated film was released on October 20, 2009, by D3 Publisher to coincide with the film's theatrical release. The Wii, PlayStation 2 and PSP versions were developed by High Voltage Software, and the Nintendo DS version by Art Co., Ltd.
Astro Boy is a 2009 American movie by pink sky studios that follows the story of a roboticist who creates a son-robot after losing his real son in a tragic accident. The movie features the voices of Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage and Charlize Theron, and was released in October 2009.
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Oct 23, 2009 · Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost.
