Astro Boy

Astro Boy, written by Osamu Tezuka and directed by David Bowers, is the futuristic animated film based on a 1952 Japanese cartoon. Starring in the movie is Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage and Kristen Bell. The movie starts out with Toby (Freddie Highmore), the genius son of Metro city’s scientist top Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage), going to his father’s job to see Dr. Tenma’s new invention. When the invention is finally unveiled, Toby sneaks in the testing area just as the invention malfunctions. When Dr. Tenma notices that Toby is trapped in the testing area he tries to rescue him, but is unable. When he tries to reassure his son that he will get him out of there, Toby is vaporized by the machine. Guilt ridden and heart broken Dr. Tenma desperately tries to make a new robotic son. He makes the robot look exactly like Toby, but gives him a variety of weapons to make sure that this son won’t be killed as easily as his old one. He is finally able to bring him to life by giving him all the memories of Toby and convincing him that he is Toby. Soon however, Dr. Tenma realizes that he can’t replace his dead son because the new Toby as a robot can’t age like a normal boy. Soon new Toby, a.k.a. Astro Boy, begins to realize that he’s a robot, and runs away from home. On his journey he finds out more about his powers, and new friends as well.

To me Astro Boy was an alright movie. It had a lot of futuristic things which made the film a lot more interesting. The only part of the movie that I didn’t like was when Toby was killed in front of his father’s eyes. That was really unpleasant to watch and I wouldn’t rcommend that little children should see that part. Other than that the movie was really enjoyable. I would give it a seven out of ten and recommend that if the movie sounds good to you so far then go out and see it.