Astro Boy

...an inner child whose sense of wonder and spending money are waiting to be tapped. Into this crowded agora comes David Bowers' Astro Boy, an animated feature based on Osamu Tezuka's 1951 manga series that spawned a TV cartoon series from...

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...caricature get along just fine in Dickens. So Tezuka might yet take off in Britain, especially if Astro Boy is a hit. Some of the themes of Astro Boy - what it is to be a robot, what it is to be human - are already there in the likes...

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...a version so obsessed with techno-trickery that it has become too creepy for its intended audience. "Astro Boy" (PG). "Astro Boy" is great fun once it gets going -- full of humor, action, vivid characters, and rich in film and literary...

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Astro Boy creator crafted a manga revolution OUTSIDE Japan, Osamu Tezuka is known as the manga artist who created Astro Boy, the cute young robot whose crime-fighting antics are popular across the world. He also has been labelled, in an...

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...smoke and drink. There are gently implied premarital and extramarital trysts, and a club singer moves suggestively. "Astro Boy" (PG). "Astro Boy" starts slowly but is great fun once it gets going. However, the level of mayhem and the theme...

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...adaptations, it seemed like only a matter of time before Hollywood got its hands on the "Godfather of Anime," Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy" series. While the results could have been disastrous, Imagi Animation Studios was able to...

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Is "Astro Boy" a glimpse of the future? Or a relic of the bygone past? On the one hand, it's inspired by the beloved 1960s television cartoon of the same name, created by Japanese manga/anime icon Osamu Tezuka. On the other hand, its hero...

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...Ham Egg forces him to fight other killer 'bots, gladiator-style. Stone gets word of the power of Toby, now Astro Boy, and sends his forces to engage Astro Boy and his new friends. The fighting includes gunfire and much mechanical...

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...makers have all been busy as bees creating unique gifts for everyone in the family. Read 'Astro Boy' looks good, but forgettable The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator"...

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...style By Michael Rechtshaffen LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Since making his debut in a 1951 Osamu Tezuka manga, the beloved Astro Boy has been retooled as a fondly remembered 1960s black-and-white animated series and, subsequently,...

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