trailer break: ‘Astro Boy’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer...
(more below the ad... scroll down...)
Looks like a little bit Iron Giant, a little bit Transformers, a little bit Robocop.
The real question is, however: Is it a little bit Pinocchio? Does Astro long to be a real boy?
This is from David Bowers, who cowrote and codirected the wonderfully original Flushed Away, so maybe it won’t be as tedious as it looks...
Astro Boy opens in the U.S. on October 23, and in the U.K. on January 29, 2010.
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comments
posted by Curtis (Thu Oct 08 09, 12:30PM)
Astro Boy is the original great Japanese manga, written/drawn in the 1950s. I wonder how it will translate to modern cinema.
posted by Accounting Ninja (Thu Oct 08 09, 12:59PM)
I'm a little wary of this one...it's old-school Japanese, seemingly Americanized. Could really suck. I'm on "wait and see" mode.
PS the trailer I saw said that, yes, he "longed to be a real boy". Sigh.
posted by Stefanie (Thu Oct 08 09, 10:21PM)
All I know is that this preview amused my usually timid 9-year-old son greatly and frightened my usually stout-hearted 6-year-old daughter in equal measure (she's had nightmares ever since we saw it before Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs). Go figure.
posted by nyjm (Fri Oct 09 09, 5:32PM)
Count me as another one on the fence. I'd like to give anything a fair shake, but I have deep suspicions that this film is just another part of the "Hollywood has run out of original ideas" phenomenon.
Of course, I've never been a real fan of the original series, either. As much as I like Manga, AstroBoy never did it for me.