Who is Astroboy
Astroboy is the story of a boy robot who was created by Dr. Tenma after the death of his son Toby. Dr. Tenma used the positive energy 'blue core' to bring Toby back to life and incorporated his son's memory into Toby's system. As he discovers his real identity, Toby was pursued by the greedy Dr. Stone in an attempt to get the 'blue core' in his hands to use for personal gains. In his attempt to capture him, Toby was thrown out of Metro City and into a robotics junkyard where he met his friends who renamed him Astro. Also, using his blue core powers, he brought Zog, a giant century-old construction robot, back to life.
While living with his friends, Astro met Hamegg, a frustrated robotics scientist who repairs defective robots and uses them on a gladiator like robot festival where robots fight each other to determine the best. Upon discovering Astro being a robot, he set him up as an entry to the festival which gave Dr. Stone a venue to capture Astroboy.
Upon capture, he directed Dr. Tenma to remove the blue core into Astro's system. Dr. Tenma retaliated and set Astro free. Mad about what happened, Dr. Stone took the negative energy-'red core' to bring a giant robot to life in a pursuit to kill Astro.
Astro then was set into a battle against the giant robot. But to kill the robot, Astro must use the power of the blue core, but using cost Astro's life. Astro died, but with the use of Zog's blue core power, he was repaired, ready to save the planet from any bad robot.
How was it
The movie is a visual treat for the young ones and young once. The story is packed with humor, heart and brain that capitalizes on a young robot's journey through self discovery, acceptance of his destiny and how he became Metro City's hero and defender against the evil robots. However, after watching the movie, I was left with a void feeling of disappointment much less dissatisfaction. While the movie did great on its effect, there was something lacking which I could not possibly say what.
Probably it has to do with the major deviation from its original story: Toby was killed from a car accident while the movie showed Toby died out of a failed robot test run. Another reason may be: while Astro's TV life is colorful because of his many and varied opponents, the climax ran around his battle against the evil robot who had the red core on it.
Again, technical and production wise was great. Probably the most visually appealing and visually entertaining cartoon-animated movie we ever had in theaters. I am happy that finally I saw Astro in a movie, but I want more. And that's the reason why I had a void depressed feeling after the movie.
Stunningly created as it was, I must say again....I want more more.
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