Astro Boy

[Rinzler]

Some of you may have seen my Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs thread, I also want your advice on Astro Boy. I might go see it anyway.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I don't like the design for the CGI Astroboy. It looks bland. The cartoonish proportions of the original has been evened out, and it makes the character seem a little more lifeless. I prefer the simplicity and elegance of Osamu Tezuka's original design.

[redtornado]

Not exactly a kid friendly movie. Kinda dark. My older kids enjoyed it, and the 6 year old did too, but I dont think he followed it quite as well.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by KennedyZL

Some of you may have seen my Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs thread, I also want your advice on Astro Boy. I might go see it anyway.

As third-party CGI's go, thought Astro had the watchable charm that Cloudy/Meatballs DIDN'T:
Both are from a new generation that's now trying to imitate huggy-Pixar instead of knocking off sitcom-Dreamworks (and have clearly seen "Meet the Robinsons" a few times, if close enough to count)--
But Astro has a cute story and pop nostalgia, where CWaCoM was too in love with its own CN-spastic slacker gags....Actually got me watching the series on Netflix for the first time, since I'm too young for B/W proto-anime to have shown up on my nostalgia radar.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by redtornado

Not exactly a kid friendly movie. Kinda dark. My older kids enjoyed it, and the 6 year old did too, but I dont think he followed it quite as well.

Well it's like either the 1st anime and/or 1st manga series(or pretty close to it) to be broadcast in Japan so naturally it will be a little dark.

But as for the movie I way prefer any of the manga or any of the anime series for Astro Boy(or in Japan it's know as Atom) then this movie. Not to say its a bad movie but seen better.

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by EricJ

As third-party CGI's go, thought Astro had the watchable charm that Cloudy/Meatballs DIDN'T:
Both are from a new generation that's now trying to imitate huggy-Pixar instead of knocking off sitcom-Dreamworks (and have clearly seen "Meet the Robinsons" a few times, if close enough to count)--
But Astro has a cute story and pop nostalgia, where CWaCoM was too in love with its own CN-spastic slacker gags....Actually got me watching the series on Netflix for the first time, since I'm too young for B/W proto-anime to have shown up on my nostalgia radar.

You can always watch the color version which is a reboot of the original series

[P@t_Mtl]

Liked the movie, went to see it on the first weekend I am a HUGE Astroboy fan.

I got introduce to Astroboy in 1980 with the new color series. I wish I could see the original in B&W. There is also a newer series made in 2003.

The movie as a different feel then the anime series, you can see it's more "American" then anime but it does have the darker feel that you might expect from anime compare to a animation kid movie made in the USA. The movie was fun, the humor was nice and not thrash humor like so many of the Dreamworks animated movies. I like the design of the characters. I love how they kept the look of Doctor Tenma and Professor Ochanomizu from the anime series of 1980. I will by it for sure on BD, it will have lot's of re-watch from me and I will add it to me collection of Astroboy

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Liked the movie, went to see it on the first weekend I am a HUGE Astroboy fan.

I got introduce to Astroboy in 1980 with the new color series. I wish I could see the original in B&W. There is also a newer series made in 2003.

The movie as a different feel then the anime series, you can see it's more "American" then anime but it does have the darker feel that you might expect from anime compare to a animation kid movie made in the USA. The movie was fun, the humor was nice and not thrash humor like so many of the Dreamworks animated movies. I like the design of the characters. I love how they kept the look of Doctor Tenma and Professor Ochanomizu from the anime series of 1980. I will by it for sure on BD, it will have lot's of re-watch from me and I will add it to me collection of Astroboy

Best Buy is supposed to be getting a new boxset of the black and white Astro Boy either this week or next week on dvd.

The 2003 version did very poorly in America when it was on Toonami and I don't see why because I thought it was great even if it wasn't as good as the original.

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Best Buy is supposed to be getting a new boxset of the black and white Astro Boy either this week or next week on dvd.

NO WAY!!!! is that USA only?

[MOONPHASE]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

NO WAY!!!! is that USA only?

Not sure but here http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Astro+Bo...71059&st=astro boy

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Not sure but here http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Astro+Bo...71059&st=astro boy

Thanks I will have a look once I get home

[benzgrl]

Originally Posted by P@t_Mtl

Liked the movie, went to see it on the first weekend I am a HUGE Astroboy fan.

I got introduce to Astroboy in 1980 with the new color series. I wish I could see the original in B&W. There is also a newer series made in 2003.

The movie as a different feel then the anime series, you can see it's more "American" then anime but it does have the darker feel that you might expect from anime compare to a animation kid movie made in the USA. The movie was fun, the humor was nice and not thrash humor like so many of the Dreamworks animated movies. I like the design of the characters. I love how they kept the look of Doctor Tenma and Professor Ochanomizu from the anime series of 1980. I will by it for sure on BD, it will have lot's of re-watch from me and I will add it to me collection of Astroboy

Hey P@t - thanks for your take on this. I've been wanting to see this - I think I'll check it out this weekend. I'm not a big anime movie watcher, but I remember watching it on Japanese TV when I was a kid and been feeling a pull to see it.

[EricJ]

I could take the Americanization, since I realized the only reason we got this movie in the first place was the 90's rush for studios to cash in on "this new anime thing" resulted in very old-fogey studio suits greenlighting movies of Speed Racer, Astro Boy, and Kimba the Lion Ki...er, White Lion.
You couldn't DO a Tezuka anime as drawn (although Black Jack might be possible), but I liked the fact that this movie had enough pop-nostalgia integrity to not be a complete US-soldout mix of "Robots" and "Meet the Robinsons", and actually gave us "normal"-looking versions of the core Tezuka characters. (Yes, even Hamegg, who seemed made to be voiced by Nathan Lane.)

I've since been catching up on the 80's series on PS3/Netflix:
Tezuka isn't deep anime, but it's cute.

[Propellarhead9]

I wanted to see this one but never got around to it. I will probably eventually just pick it up anyway as I am a big fan of CG movies.

[Rinzler]

Very interesting. I may get a pre order of meatballs as an X-mas gift, I will definitely ask for reciepts. I should just go see them in theaters I guess. Too lazy to leave home, on top of that my blockbuster closed thanks for all the opinions keep em coming!

[P@t_Mtl]

Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

Not sure but here http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Astro+Bo...71059&st=astro boy

It's available in Canada, thanks for pointing it out too me