It's from Summit? That explains everything. They are great at taking promising ideas and going half way (at best). They are all about getting it out there fast and cheap adn if the story's okay, well fine. Just look at Push and Twilight.

Great job Summit. Another mediocre movie.

I am also a little bit disappointed with this film. After a long wait for this movie, a film I have seen a lot since my childhood but what I can only boring story. Perhaps because the story is too flat which makes this movie less good. But I think this movie has great animation.

I have not seen the film yet. But based on the trailers, I'm already disappointed.

I'm an Astro Boy fan from all the way back to the original in 1963 (U.S. air date). So I say this with the hope to find something redeeming when I see it. But if this movie is anything like the previews, Dr. Tezuka will be spinning in his grave, and I'll be waiting to find it in Wal-Mart's bargain bin in about 3 months.

All they had to do was do a CGI version of the several Astroy Boy Series. Not that hard. Dr. Tenma should've either not been involved or should've been a villian (even if he becomes good), his sister should've been introduced, it should've been kind of dark and sad, and lots of robot prejudice. Did they do any of this? I decided to sample about ten minutes on youtube and I saw nothing but wrong being done…

Sorry I can’t help but notice from the review that there is come biased not only towards what it seems to be a dislike towards anime based film but all Summit studios. Yes Twilight was made by the same company but you have to take that out of the mix. It is really making you drag down what at least to me was a kick ass movie.

“Tenma may be smart enough to create a robotic duplicate of his son using only a single strand of hair, but yet he's surprised this robot isn't the same as his one-time flesh and blood. Go figure.”

I mean seriously you can’t say that if you created a clone of someone you would expect them to act different? That isn’t a clone so he should be surprised that he didn’t create a clone but a all new life. The sarcasm I think is ill placed.

“Astro Boy's animation is sure to come under fire as it is nowhere near the likes of a Pixar or DreamWorks produced animation, “

Seriously? I thought the flight scenes were amazing. Sure it didn’t look as good as a Pixar or DreamWorks movie but you don’t need to have all that to tell a good story. We have a term for that in that gaming world for people that don’t even give a game a chance just because it doesn’t look photo realistic…Graphics Whores.

I’m not even going to talk about the comments because I don’t believe you can talk negatively about a movie you haven’t seen and 2/3 people didn’t even give it a chance. All in all I say Astro Boy is up there in my favorite CG animated films and honestly go watch Shrek the Third and tell me how that doesn’t look like a Playstation 2 game and then look at me and say quality and DreamWorks in the same sentence again.

"Astro Boy" was excellent. The animation was superb, the story really grabbed you, and the central character really tugged on the heartstrings. This is one of the most enjoyable and satisfying animated movies I've ever seen. It deserves an A, not a D, in my opinion.