Astro Boy (2009)
Critic Reviews
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75
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A marvelously designed piece of cartoon kinetics.
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75
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
It's zippy, and the movie version has both a computerized sheen and handcrafted detailing. Because the details are cribbed from classics, parents can enjoy this 'toon as much as their kids.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The movie contains less of its interesting story and more action and battle scenes than I would have preferred.
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70
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Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The lighting, production design, and character modeling are excellent, and director David Bowers (Flushed Away) references "Frankenstein," "Wall-E," "Transformers," and even Abraham and Isaac. But the TV series, primitive though it was, had a sweet innocence and joyfulness that made it more fun.
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60
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Derivative bits aside, the pint-sized Japanese icon takes flight in vibrant CG animation -- no 3D glasses required.
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60
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Variety
Appropriately for a film about robots, efficiency is the primary virtue of Astro Boy, a well-oiled CG-animated superhero pic that makes up in competence and vitality what it lacks in originality.
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60
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Time Out
What’s ultimately more impressive than the vigorous madcap action and innocuous humor, however, is Bowers’s willingness to address adult themes--alienation, regret, class tensions--with a directness that shows a surprising respect for his target young-adult audience
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50
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L.A. Weekly
Corny but goodhearted, the film tries hard not to annoy parents, with animation more fizzy than frantic and nerdy references.
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50
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Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
It's a totally serviceable reboot for young people who are just discovering the joys of manga, but I can't help but miss the raw animation and even rawer emotional aesthetics of Tezuka's original televised animé series.
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42
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The A.V. Club Tasha Robinson
Older viewers are more likely to see a muddled film full of one-dimensional characters and insultingly strident politics.
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