The first thing that struck me about this film was the terrible voice casting. Nicholas Cage doesn't have an acting bone in his body and yet he plays the emotional part of a father who loses his son (and then rejects another). Bill Nighy plays a strangely muted part and the voice of Donald Sutherland as President Stone is too old for the character and lifeless.
The animation is acceptable but the story nonsense. A new mega-powerful source of energy has been discovered and divided into blue and red, good/bad. The blue (promising the Green lobby unlimited clean power) is going to be put into a new robot design but the president decides on the red (Bad) instead creating a monster - of course. In the battle with the now monstered robot Cage's son is killed. His reaction to this is summarised by a completely inadequate "Oh, no! My son has been killed - I can rebuild him. I won't sleep or eat until it's done"! Back of hand on forehead - Oh woe is me kind of thing. Awful, Awful, Awful. He then rejects his rebuilt son - without almost any angst at all. Did they tailor this plot to the cast's acting abilities?
The inevitable story unfolds - with the evil president chasing the boy for his power source and the boy joining a "rebel" group on the polluted earth, lots of meaningless battles, big boss battle to end and so on blah, blah, blah.
Essentially anything with Mr Cage in it gets a leery reaction from me but I'm always ready to try. This film is a lifeless waste of animators time and I'm sure most of the actors hurried away from it to do better things.
Don't bother with it...
The animation is acceptable but the story nonsense. A new mega-powerful source of energy has been discovered and divided into blue and red, good/bad. The blue (promising the Green lobby unlimited clean power) is going to be put into a new robot design but the president decides on the red (Bad) instead creating a monster - of course. In the battle with the now monstered robot Cage's son is killed. His reaction to this is summarised by a completely inadequate "Oh, no! My son has been killed - I can rebuild him. I won't sleep or eat until it's done"! Back of hand on forehead - Oh woe is me kind of thing. Awful, Awful, Awful. He then rejects his rebuilt son - without almost any angst at all. Did they tailor this plot to the cast's acting abilities?
The inevitable story unfolds - with the evil president chasing the boy for his power source and the boy joining a "rebel" group on the polluted earth, lots of meaningless battles, big boss battle to end and so on blah, blah, blah.
Essentially anything with Mr Cage in it gets a leery reaction from me but I'm always ready to try. This film is a lifeless waste of animators time and I'm sure most of the actors hurried away from it to do better things.
Don't bother with it...