Comments on: Astro Boy Review

By: Cassie

Cassie — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:49:36 +0000

The ending too violent for kids???? have you EVER seen a disney movie?!

By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:35:56 +0000

I thought this movie was OK.. Did not agree that it should of had so many political stunts in it such as “Look at history, negative energy always wins.”,“starting a war in order to get re-elected”, ” Now is not the time for change.” I agree that those parts in the movie made it very annoying…
The plot was ok for me and i did like astro boy and his heart of gold, teaching his father a valuable lesson and teaching the kids from the surface one too! I wish this movie would have just stuck to that instead of the political remarks that were way too clear. It just ruined it for me when I look back at the movie.. WALL-E is one pf my favorite movies because the love story was the main plot the future of humanity was just an undertone.. So Astro boy if you want but don’t keep your hopes up.

By: Nik

Nik — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:06:12 +0000

I actually got teary eyed during the last few scenes. Although I must admit that the first half of the movie was pretty dragging and I almost fell asleep. But overall, i must say it’s an entertaining movie (in my own point of view, of course). I’m a 19 year old male, by the way

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:14:01 +0000

Well guys- just because this guy didn't like it- doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a chance.
I'm a teen and I actually enjoyed it a lot.
And the political parts are the main part of the movie because that kept the movie together (read the plot for yourselves).

For kids under 10, they may not be able to catch on to the humor or anything (because I wouldn't have either) but this movie was great and very cute.
I'd give it 4 stars out of 5.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:14:11 +0000

I am 56 years old and liked the movie. Perhaps because my wife and I have not watched TV and cable news shows in several years, the movie did not strike us as “political” or annoying, just entertaining. (As far back as I can remember, government leaders, in countries all around the world, have used tensions with foreign enemies to shore themselves up at home.) The very young children sitting in front of us seemed to be enjoying the film. They liked shouting “ouch” during the battle scenes. Not sure how to react to comments from 13 year-olds. When our kids were that age their favorite move was Hey Dude Where's My Car? (One of the worst movies my wife and I have ever watched.) As a semi-retired engineer who first learned how to write computer programs using IBM punchcards, the technology is fascinating. I recommend the movie to others in our age group.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:14:11 +0000

By: Jewel

Jewel — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:50:30 +0000

I like this Movie Alot! and this is my first time seeing it and I never really heard of Astro Boy until now so I don’t know much about the origenle (can’t spell) one of Astro Boy but it was good too me but it looked too short and I hope the have a GOOD sequel and add a girl PS. I’m a girl and I don’t care for Romance but I was kinda hoping for Astro too have a girlfreind… >.>

By: ronin

ronin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:08:21 +0000

I was in Hollywood when Astroboy was being premiered at the Manns Chinese Theater. I didn’t know it was scheduled for that day but then, I thought, heck, I’ll watch this once it hits the theaters, I mean, I am a fan of the original cartoon as well.

When I did get to see it however, it was kind of a let-down. I think the movie tried so hard trying to strike a balance to “satisfy” audiences of different age levels that, it ended up getting watered-down, with a lot of interesting plot points getting casually pushed aside instead of being developed or explored to give the story a lot more depth.

Overall, it wasn’t really bad, but it wasn’t all that good either. If they decide to make a sequel of this one, I hope they do a better job!

By: Olorin

Olorin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:16:31 +0000

The “bad” energy was red and the “good” energy was blue?

Not very subtle.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:04:17 +0000

That’s odd, I thought the ones that are getting high were the tree huggers??

By: Gigan300

Gigan300 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:15:54 +0000

@Sylar’s Hunger Continues

The thing is that amung all the creatures on this planet, HUMANS are the ones destroying it. People are aware of this and yet they don’t care. They would rather go to parties and get drunk, high, or both.

By: Dave Mowers

Dave Mowers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:24:32 +0000

Off topic sorry,

Vic, I am going to The Fourth Kind opening day early, I will be writing an opinion piece and sending it to you via email that day for your readers enjoyment. I plan on writing a serious piece so expect the draft by early evening in time for new potential viewers to make their last minute decisions.

Your email contact from webpage is not working. Too this rest of you, it sucked having to read so many posts..but Thank You all for letting me know a childhood hero sucked. I have been looking for a free preview-via post on player for free version of Astro Boy before blowing money taking the kids to see it. Thanks to ScreenRants amazing critics I will play Akira for them instead…altough I want to play Urotsukidoji..heh heh heh

By: Da Phat Kid

Da Phat Kid — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:51:03 +0000

This Movie kicked so much ass , I was rooting for the little black kid the whole time.

By: the old man

the old man — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:46:36 +0000

Sam some like to think that radical is the only way to characterize people who subscribe to any ideology.
It’s a nice way to demonize a point of view and strike fear into those that would like to consider all aspects of a viewpoint. My own point of view borrows from a number of ideologies. I think many people operate in this mode. For example I don’t believe in gun control. The reasons are
numerous but the one I like to point to is that no one can control the creativity of a person that is determined to do violence or threaten violence. The best way to control violence in my opinion is to remove the reasons for it in the first place. Removing motive makes opportunity and means
irrelevant. I also think we for the most part live in an enclosed system. Solar radiation strikes daily it is diffuse though and limited. We don’t yet have the ability to control the suns activity. So besides the occasional comet or rock or satellite that hits the Earth we have finite energy resources. Man has from recorded history been able to enhance his life by making things to assist him in his daily struggle to survive. If we think of these tools as energy transformers we’re able to look at them in a new way. All living things exchange energy with the environment. The overall environment which contains matter and energy is finite. As the number of living things increases and if they have the ability to make tools then more efficient and
numerous energy transformers will be built to assist that life in it’s survival. No transformation process is
perfect and different states exist in the process. Unfortunately we typically only have one perhaps two
individual paths to take advantage of these different states. The first is direct transformation and the second is
commonly called recycling. The more steps taking advantage of these states the more of the total amount of energy can be transformed. Typically into what’s considered useful work. The penalty for doing this is that less concentrated forms of energy and material are available in the future. In the future those who are living then can’t take advantage of the energy and materials being used today. The states of diffusion become so great that a transformer, to take advantage of that state becomes infeasible. In other words as you drive your car around all the materials and energy used become increasingly unavailable. Yeah even the little bits of it, as it oxidizes away and falls off as you go down the road. Imagine trying to make a transformer able to gather all those little bits back up!

The rate of transformation can’t be reduced beyond some natural fixed point. As intelligent beings we can insure our
future progeny are afforded as much as we can spare for them to use. It should be the inheritance we leave our
legacy that should encourage them so that they too may follow our example. Until the day when humankind reaches
its end, in a transformation beyond the temporal world or the final erg is transformed.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:57:55 +0000

Damn Sylar, you’re right, all animals should just die. I mean, look at those grazers, eating up all of the defenseless grass, and those evil Orca’s that kill seals slowly, geez…

By: Sylar's Hunger Continues

Sylar's Hunger Continues — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:20:56 +0000

Gigan typed:

>>WE need the planet, but the planet doesn’t need us.<<

Homework assignment: Among all the creatures of the planet that are more worthy than humans, list those that the planet does need.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:52:57 +0000

Maybe I missed something but, seems like I wouldn’t have much use for the earth if it was devoid of human life… I mean; I’m a boy scout and a moderate tree hugger and I want to treat our planet well, but I think if we are encouraging the end of human life in order to save the planet we may have missed the point…

btw – I also like run on sentances

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:30:30 +0000

LOL, I guess you are god and don’t need a habitable planet in order to be alive to be “sitting back and laughing.”

By: Gigan300

Gigan300 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:51 +0000

Laugh all you want, Ken. But,your only confirming everything I’ve said about humans to be true, such pathetic creatures. If its not on myspace, facebook, or twitter, then people just disregard it and assume that person to be “crazy”. Oh, well when the planet becomes uninhabitable then I’ll be the one sitting back and laughing.

By: Ken J

Ken J — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:37:01 +0000

LMAO!!

Ok, so there’s a 70% chance gigan wasn’t joking, but I’m going to laugh anyway…

Ferngully is such a classic isn’t it? Can’t you feel its pain??