2009 · animation · action · family
Astro Boy
Directed by David Bowers1h 34m2009
Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son he had lost. Unable to fulfill his creator's expectations, Astro embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before returning to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who rejected him.
Our read: Astro Boy (2009) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal animation · action · family entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured animation / action, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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