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Astro Boy has a long his­tory in Anime and Manga and has had mul­ti­ple occur­rences in TV and film. This adap­ta­tion seems a more of an Amer­i­can or British feel to it. The story of Astro Boy is sort of like an ani­mated Pinoc­chio. The 3-D ani­ma­tion in this movie is top notch. It looks great in every scene. The cast­ing was inter­est­ing and included quite a few famous actors such as  Nico­las Cage, Fred­die High­more, and Kris­ten Bell, to name a few. The story is heart warm­ing, at times tragic, and con­tained quite a few com­i­cal moments.

This movie didn’t receive a lot of acco­lades at the box office and I really don’t under­stand why. It looked great. The story was good and the voice act­ing was too. Maybe it was the actual death that hap­pened in the film. That did take me back a bit when I saw it. Still, this was a very enjoy­able film fam­ily film. The main char­ac­ter was charm­ing and easy to feel for. Maybe it was too dif­fer­ent from the source mate­r­ial. I am famil­iar with the Astro Boy char­ac­ter of old but I never fol­lowed it very closely. I enjoyed this movie and eas­ily give it a 4 out of 5 marks.