13:30 the worst thing about this is, Tenma only had a surface level knowledge of who his own son was. So this might have very well been what Toby was always like but Tenma was just never aware, thus depending on interests his son had long since moved on from.
The child literally done his test and get out of the room asap, Also hack his robot just to see something interesting. I can't see him as a nerd who loves reading books for hour
I also liking this theory. For me toby grew up knowing he has little time to be with his dad so what does he do with his loneliness? He tries to cope by study like his father and become like his father just so he can feel connected with his father. But astroboy doesnt have the same memories like toby because he has tenma's memories instead, astroboy didnt got to feel lonely because tenma changed his ways to bond with astroboy but the more he bond with astroboy he realizes this is not the same son he knew. If tenma actually gone to his same mistakes astroboy mightve actually become toby, to become a well behaved boy.
I think the reason why Astro wasn’t behaving like Toby is because Toby learned to act a specific way to gain his father’s approval. Astro didn’t understand that so he’s acting like a regular kid which was probably closer to Toby’s true self. This is very sad to think about cause it means Tenma never truly knew his son.
As someone who literally only learned about Astro boy from this movie as a kid, I have fond nostalgia for the movie. Though I haven’t watched it in a while.
Same here, I watched this since I was around 4 and it's actually the only this I've ever seen of astro boy so I don't have a say in how good it is compared to the anime. But in my opinion I love the movie even if some others don't
I have not much memories left of that movie, but I remember I liked it. That's pretty much it, I wouldn't remember anything else if it wasn't for this video.
*I honestly enjoyed this film when I was 8 and when I found out that it was so bad that it caused the studio that made it to shut down a small part of me died.*
I don't even think it was necessarily "so bad" that it bankrupted the studio. It was a good enough family film. I think a lot of their loss came from poor marketing and trying to adapt it too much to a casual American family movie instead of something that preexisting fans would enjoy.
It's not THAT bad, c'mon. 🙂It's still AstroBoy, after all, it's some "apocryph", a version. They could make it better, but in the end it's an enjoyable entertainment. I am an old AstroBoy fan, as my first series ever seen is the 1980s one. I also saw and red all versions of this story I could find on the internet; some are stupid, some are great. If you like AstroBoy (or Tetsuwan Atom), you can't feel so bad about this movie. Don't forget your sense of criticism or the fact you are grown up, now, of course. 🙂 But in the end, your 8 years old self loved it.
@@bankbill9670 It wasn't SO BAD but it definitely was sub-par. I REALLY liked it when I was a kid but when it comes to consistancy (a very important part of the movie) it kinda fails.
About the pollution thing, it seemed like the 2D intro was made in a style that was meant to feel “retro”, at least for the current age. I always imagined that alone was a decent indicator to say “the planet got polluted so we left, and we’ve been gone for like a century at least.” In general it felt to me like everyone in Metro City didn’t even wait to see if the planet was actually beyond saving. I mean, a few decades are just enough time for some substantial lush greenery to spring up. Give it a hundred years maybe and you could have a large, healthy forest with some wind pollination and maybe a few bees and butterflies. Also, as pointed out by user MysterySteve, it could also be deeply exaggerated to ensure Metro City civilians don’t mingle with the (literal) lower class, as keeping people divided ensures that the corporate overlords stay in power.
I remember going into it as a kid thinking it was gonna be the standard good time funny movie-just to see the main character friggin die in an accident within the first 15 minutes in front of his dad. Up to that point I just assumed he must get robot parts and become some type of a cyborg later on, so I wasn’t thinking the accident was actually going to KILL him-and then have the dad so heartbroken he dedicates himself to making a robot replica of his son and falls into depression when he realizes it will never be the same and he can never have him back-like holy CRAP-traumatized and broke my 10 year old heart at the time.
@@Momegan770 lol ikr? I was lowkey sitting there for the remainder of the movie thinking: “Dang…so they’re not going to address this more? We’re going to pretend like we didn’t just see a robot replace a dead child and take on their likeness?” ..I…thought a lot as a child.
@@doodlemunchkin2222 that sums this up pretty well 😳 I was about 4 or 5 when I first watched it, and even then I thought it was very different fr0m the other kid movies I’ve seen :o This is still one of my favs tho.
I actually really appreciate this movie’s willingness to go pretty damn dark. Some family films stay incredibly safe and don’t delve into more mature themes, but kids are more intuitive and intelligent than people give them credit for, and I think it’s important to introduce them to themes like death and loss in a safe environment. Films and shows are a great way to do so. I remember being really fond of this movie as a kid, and was both sad and moved by Toby’s father creating Astro Boy in an attempt to hold onto the memory of his dead child. It definitely has its issues like Pig pointed out, but it is still a worthwhile watch.
i agree, best way to expose in a digestible way this kind of stuff is movies and shows, it's a great vaccine to when it comes irl you got some emotional resources to deal with it
Well just remember this is still pretty much the early 2000s so of course the movie is going to go a little dark up to I want to say 2013 is where they stopped going dark and hiding the dark humor in adult jokes
idk Tobey getting completely incinerated into nothing messed with me when I was a kid. I don’t think I would have been as affected by it if he died but his father was still able to hold his body in his arms, but being reduced to nothing but a hat really made me depressed for a while.
I remember the first Astro Boy episode I watched. The masked villain hated robots because he blamed them for his mother’s death. In the end, Astro Boy found his mother. Turns out she was a robot and because she was “out of date” she was taken from the villain and thrown into a junk yard. The scene where the mother and villain/son reunite and the villain takes off his mask, falls to his knees and rests his head on her lap while sobbing “mother” had me crying. If you ever get a chance to watch Astro Boy the anime, it’s well worth it!
The first episode I can remember watching is when Astro boy meets another robot similar to him. A scene I remember watching is when the side character notices his father carrying a body to the trash and when he finds the body it’s in reality himself but younger
Huh? I thought astro boy was a kid with only a dad and a unkown mother that got killed by a car accident or the explosion from the movie and turned into a robot? Since when did he have a robot mom? Also I found it strange how astro boy's father was kinda a d*ck but gotten better over time but in other adaptations he literally tries to kill his own child
Watched that movie as a kid, and the only thing I remember (apart from being scarred by seeing a child literally get vaporized) was when Astroboy was down on earth and the robo-dog was trying to tell the kids that Astro is actually a robot, but the dog doesn't talk so he like wrote "he is a robot" on the dirt and then one of the kids was like "huh, almost makes me wish I knew how to read"
Honestly, one of the only western film adaptations of an anime that I've ever seen. I really loved this movie as a kid, and it treated the original source material pretty well. Plus the animation was pretty solid for the time
And, the ONLY good western adaptation of an anime. The rest like Death Note Netflix, Dragon Ball Evolution etc are just garbage. Astro Boy 2009 is the ONLY good one
This movie is the cinematic definition of a mixed bag. It has some scenes that are so fucking good and gut wrenching that gives Pixar a run for their writing (not even an exaggeration), but other moments that are just stupid and/or makes no sense. This is still a great movie eitherway and I have very fond memories of it, but it could've been much more.
Said something similar in the comments, even though it was a fun movie their is a few things that is ahead of its time and underrated at most. I watched the movie again most recently I agreed with some of the voice acting, that could of done differently. overall seeing this again brings some enjoyable moments.
Y'all know that Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is basically this, right? A child dies from an explosion, then his father creates a replica of him out of grief. The replica son doesn't act like the original son, so the grieving dad becomes frustrated with the replica son. The grieving dad learns to accept the replica son.
Yeah, I honestly find it so odd that so few people notice the similarities between Astro Boy and Pinocchio. A.B is basically if Pinocchio was a shounen
The concept of the movie is incredible "the scientist's son died and he hasn't passed any time with him so he remakes him as a robot but then realises that's not his son" but then they go "red orb is evil not destructive or anything its just like the blue energy but evil with no other explanation" Its like they wanted a serious/sad story but also a childish bad vs good story
@@flowflower2816 Yeah basically everything they took from the original comics and anime adaptations they nailed, but like... all the movie original stuff was not lasting in the slightest lol
It's hilarious when the climax scene that was supposed to elevate the true intention, screwed up the whole movie's meaning very miserably. I don't even remember that blue vs red orb thing
I always just saw the two orbs as two opposing force of energy where one is fundamentally destructive and one is fundamentally creative(?). Not rocket science. But then again I was already a bit over 11 I think when I watched it and I was used to anime symbolism
The “You’re not Toby…but you’re still my son” scene still legit makes me tear up, and I think it’s a showcase for how well-cast Nicolas Cage is in this movie. He’s really good at playing a sort of emotionally stunted dad, like in Kick-Ass.
He's one of those actors where it feels like he's really giving it his all in every role he plays. Doesn't always mean he does the best job but it always feels he's giving the best performance he can, even when he's working with material that doesn't warrant that much effort. He's said himself that he puts that effort into every role because he's thankful for every role he gets, letting him do a job he loves. Even if he thinks the material is dumb, he's still giving 100% because he just loves acting and hopes that even the worst of his roles can have some "so bad it's good" energy if nothing else That level of consistent high effort Cage puts in really shines when he's given the right roles. He can make anything watchable but he can put in a masterful performance with the right material
My animation professor was offered director role this movie. He’s an older guy and LOVES Astro boy. He looked at who was working on it and apparently every toxic/ horrible ego person in the industry was working on it. He backed out so fast lol.
Just wanna throw this out there: Even though the planet isn't completely hopelessly polluted in the movie, the companies in Metro City more than likely feel a lot of incentive to make it sound worse than it actually is so people don't try to go down there and unite with those people and help out. The corporations benefit from classist separation
Call me crazy, but the choice of animation style also has a certain flavor to it that suggests it’s “retro” for the day it takes place in. Despite the fact it’s set far in the future, the opening 2D intro feels like it was made decades before the story itself actually starts. In other words, said demonstration happened long enough ago that the “polluted” planet probably had time to bounce back. Idk, seemed like the case to me. :/
@@RailfoxStudios yeah, the surface doesn't even have any government anymore so the civilization down there probably already collapsed and didn't produce as much pollution anymore thus the planet already healed by the time the movie starts.
@RailfoxStudios Yeah, and Tenma didn't help build the city, he's just one of the leading minds that works there. It seems like since all the rich people left the earth could recover faster for the people left on the surface
This movie was so unique, you get a full 10 minutes to learn about Toby and he just dies. I can't think of any other kids movie in witch the protag dies in the first 10 minutes, let alone the whole movie
That alien at the end of the movie was a reference to one of the enemies in the original Astro Boy series, called the Artificial Sun, so it was supposed to be a robot, and it only had that one eye as a boss in a video game called "Astro Boy Omega Factor" on GameBoy Advance.
@Sunoo Kim Hate to say this but the studio who made Astro Boy movie got shut down years ago after the movie came out. So, I'm wondering what the sequel is going to be like.
I remember this movie and remembered liking it when i was younger, and i still like it now. It is not the best thing ever but it is still pretty good. Another recommendation for pig is the 2006 curious George movie
Fun fact: the butt guns aren't even the weirdest thing about Astro’s design in the manga. Just look up how Astro was refilled in the manga and you will realize the true extent of stuff they got away with in the 60s.
The thing about the Blue Core and Red Core is that they’re supposed to represent a positron and electron; the negatively charged electron and its positively charged antiparticle, the positron. When they collide, they destroy each other, releasing energy in the process of annihilation, which I think is pretty cool, it’s just the concept could have used some more workshopping than how it was executed in the final film
I think why the red core can absorb things is because its the opposite of the blue core. The blue can give energy to wake up and charge other robots, so the red core just sorta takes energy and absorbs it.
I still don't get how it absorbs humans... or, better, just one human, the bad guy. I really like how Stone's hand becomes red when he takes the Red Core with bare fingers. It howls "dangerus"! Maybe even radioactive or something. By the way, old Astro/Atom, ran on uranium; in spite of this, he was perfectly safe for people and devices around him. But, think about this cute kid, with a nuclear core inside. 😀
Ohh yeah, still doesn't make sense why President guy would want it, if he wanted to use it to say gather the energy from the robots down below, then that'd kind of spoil the fact that no one knows that much about the down below. Changing its name from trash to resource would be very bad.
Man, as a kid this movie scared me so much when Toby was incinerated, for some reason I remember it being a lot more graphic, but I guess that was just my child mind lol
“There’s a plot hole where they said the surface of the Earth is uninhabitable and you can clearly see that it is” There’s this funny thing where they mention that line and also in the same spiel about people still living there, not a plot hole but a plot device could for the sort of school programming (propaganda) to paint the surface as a terrible place, when yes you realize it isn’t.
It’s also stated in the opening intro that no one really knows what goes on, on the surface because no one goes there which basically makes that point about the earth being too polluted further null since there is no way anyone from metro city actually knows what the surface is like.
I remember the shock at felt as a kid watching the main character basically get obliterated so early in the movie. At the time, I had never seen something that dark and I remember being very sad at the moment Astro ran away because he was having an identity crisis and didn't understand why he could even fly or why his dad didn't love him anymore. Being older, I didn't like the other half of the movie where he joins the kids on the lower surface as much as I enjoyed the beginning, but all in all, this movie has a good place in my heart.
This movie has a place in my heart as well. When I was about 4 years old, I had to go to the hospital for brain surgery. I remember I would watch this movie on repeat since they had a tv in the room I was in. I'm pretty sure the nurses, doctors, and my parents were trying to not lose their sanity lmao
I remember when it first came out and seeing an article or something that had a quote from someone who was close with Tezuka (the creator) that said "he would approve of this" or something like that. So that always kind of stuck with me even though it got bad reviews
lol. My baby cousin chose Astro Boy. I was 11, not interested in that movie, so I didn't watch it. But I entered the room where Toby was sad and BOOM! I realized... I had a crush on Astro Boy 🤦♀️ for 13 years. It became my life, but I never thought your perspective.
One think I've always loved about this movie is the way the dad feels Astra isn't his real son. It's just not something you usually see when a character gets cloned and I feel it's a more realistic reaction.
I remember as a kid, the part where Toby died made me so distraught that I didn’t even want to watch it anymore. That kind of thing doesn’t bother me anymore since it’s a movie but the thought of that happening irl is heartbreaking
To be honest I loved this film as a kid and I still do. There's something about the junkyards and super-high-tech city flying in the skies and cast-away kids hanging out together that just stuck with me. I don't care the villain wasn't that deep - not all villains have to be. He was there to serve his purpose and I am quite fine with that.
Because the whole "are robots alive" thing just doesn't really work here, I feel like if the movie focused on the trauma of the Dad loosing his son and astroboy having to deal with just being a copy, got could have a really good story
It doesn't really work because even the narrative discounts robots as people,. save for Astro and Zog. All they are in the movie is comic relief, down to the RRF. The movie doesn't take the question seriously, so why should the audience?
Besides a few details the beginning of this movie and the Astro Boy mnibus manga play out pretty much the same. iirc, Astro never reunites with his dad in the original.
I think all movies should end with the hero fighting a random alien at the end. Like, how awesome it would've been if after dropping the ring, Frodo just blasts off on rocket boots to go fight some sky alien attacking The Shire. Gandalf would appear "Are you ready for this Frodo?" Frodo would be like "I was born for this Gandalf!" Then he'd blast off. 10/10, I should write books.
This movie is the dictionary definition of “the movie of all time” meme. It’s not mind-blowingly amazing and deep, or absurdly bad and pandering, rather it’s at a comfortable middle ground, and that’s ok.
I’m actually surprised by this video this was a classic movie for me growing up and I remember loving every bit of it even friends of mine today also share that same sentiment I guess it’s just weird to see the reality of it or the perception of it outside of a generational gap I guess
I think the reason Astro still fought the robots after preaching is that, he was hoping the others would think the same. But they aren’t programmed with a human’s memories and are programmed to fight. Once he realized that words won’t get through to them, he decided to fight to keep himself alive. He still feels human emotions and fear and the natural idea of preserving your own life, fight or flight, could possibly be the reason he did fight, and it was probably the only option he had when words didn’t work.
I liked the villain for one reason. He behaved like a stereotypical military general who so happened to also be the president. He's obsessed with power and doesn't care about the consequences. Plus you're always gonna have someone who's obsessed with violence and war when it's absolutely not necessary.
Same he was prob one of the evilest kid movie villains I had ever seen but it's realistic when you think about how there are some leaders who actually act like him, though of course it's more exaggerated in a kids movie.
Literally some ppl and leaders r really like that out of paranoia of what could happen, anticipating war, maybe with the surface people or even if the robots revolt.
I absolutely loved this movie when I watched it as a kid, and this summary actually doesn't make it sound that bad, exept that it sounds like a very rough idea of the, something that they would have on the very early stages and then the writers would do their magic and make it all make sense an take care of any plot holes, but it seems like that never happened
I remember being told that the reason the giant alien appeared in the end of the movie was because that that's were the comics started. The original Astro Boy's first comic or first enemy was that alien. I might be wrong but I thought it would help those who are confused. I also remember seeing this movie when I was around 10 and it scared me with some of the dark beats the movie has. Still loved it as a kid, still kind of do as of now.
As an Astro Boy fan myself, I would love to see a new reboot that delves more into the psychology of Astro and his views on Toby. Astro was initially built to replace Tenma’s deceased son, but he eventually developed his own personality and identity. It would be interesting to see his internal struggles with trying to find who he really is while also being curious about Toby and wanting to know more about him. They did explore this idea a bit in the 2003 anime but it didn’t really go that deep. Hopefully the new reboot by Shibuya Productions will explore this concept.
I'm working on a fanfiction on wattpad about rebooting Astro Boy into a TV show that is kinda like a sequel to the movie, but adds more depth and explanation and has moments of Astro finding out more about Toby, as well as introducing a few old characters along with new original characters!
This was actually my first ever piece of Astro Boy media as a kid. It’s thanks to this movie that I was even able to recognize him when I saw a DVD of the series a few years later.
I definitely remember this movie fondly plus the villain after becoming a giant monster just tapping the mic then saying "is this thing on" just made me lose it
This movie lived rent free in my head for literal years. I’d zoom out just to let my mind wonder onto that scene where Astro Boy finds out he’s a robot. It took me years just to find out the name of the movie I had been thinking about for seemingly forever.
When I was a toddler a dvd copy of this movie was bought for my birthday, it instantly became my favourite movie ever. When I tell you I watched this movie back to back almost every single day I mean it, I have every scene memorized, I could probably recite this movie by memory. I actually still have that dvd, it's turning 12 this year.
This movie and the animated TMNT movie were my favorite movies for the longest time as a kid. I used to VERY legally watch them on my phone super often. It's really funny to see how this one has aged, it could be my nostalgia talking but I still think it holds up lol
I believe that the studio fell into bankruptcy because of how badly recieved Astroboy was, which is really sad to me. I really loved this movie as a kid and remember getting the mcdonalds toys.
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 I'm curious as to why you say that. Is it the writing? The animation? Weird design choices? I'm intrested. (I haven't watched the TMNT one, only clips so I don't know much about it and I admit that Astroboy isn't the best movie in the world.)
@@exoticraptor9436 The plot is very bland and cliche and iirc there's a HUGE plothole in the opening narration. It's just not interesting, Ninja Turtles works better with Shredder honestly, most other Turtles villains just aren't that interesting. There's also the contrived drama with the Turtles splitting up and Leo and Raph fighting when we know what's gonna happen, cool fight scene though. The voice cast was actually great though, almost the ideal voices for the Turtles, Splinter, Casey, April and Karai. Animation was great too, but it doesn't save a mediocre movie. Still better than Ninja Turtles 3 though.
Can we talk about how fact that in the movie, Astro boy is literally supposed to be a replacement of a real boy who died from a robot obliterating every part of his body except for his hat?
in regards to 18:30 i think the earth has started to regrow after many years since the metrocity initiative wouldve happened at least a decade before. it makes sense why some areas have started to regrow after long periods of little to no human contact, although depending on how polluted the area was i agree its strange it retained any life but i suspect because of time and probably the government exaggerating the circumstances to further themselves from the “low lives” or whatever that this is why, just a theory tho
I was thinking the same thing that the politicians of Metro City would want to keep their people and the Surface Dwellers divided. So maybe that commercial was just an exaggeration to make them think it's not as good on Earth and whoever lives there isn't good either.
That sounds about right, the earth could have definitely healed in that time (by how much is pretty debatable), and the initiative to distance everyone on Metro City from the surface dwellers makes too much sense for it NOT to be the case. It would've been nice to have the movie establish that better.
@@hotel_arcadia yeah i agree, i think it may have been somewhat decrepit but not as bad as they were making it seem, they were also actively contributing to it and making it worse
After rewatching this vid after watching all of the 2003 astro boy anime, I can see they followed the original astro boy plot and characters pretty well. Obviously there are differences,but each incarnation of astro boy has similarities. Astro not wanting to hurt humans despite what they have done and not wanting to hurt robots because they are alive too is something that parallels the 2003 anime. only reason he fights robots is presumably because they can be rebuilt and taught how not to be weapons.
I'd totally forgotten about this movie, but I had some scenes of it kicking around my head. I had no idea what they were from, but the big robot was rattling around in my head this entire time
Honestly I'm surprised that anybody could hate this movie and that It did bad, My dad bought this movie for me as a kid and I still own it on dvd, I watched it so many times that at one point I knew every single line a character was going to say throughout the entire movie.
i watched this a couple times and never really noticed all the plot holes... i did really enjoy it so i'm glad it's getting some recognition! the animation is one of my favorite parts. also, as to the inconsistency between the inital ad and the actual earth down below, it's likely changed a lot since Metrocity first left, and they haven't checked on it. or, also, propaganda.
I loved this movie. It's in that category of movies for me that I strangly really love to rewatch. Along with Kiki's Delivery Service and Meet the Robinsons.
The weird part is that this movie was my introduction to Astro Boy and I it weren't for this movie, I never would have gone to look for the original source of the film...
That's me... watching 1963, 1989, 2003, 2006 versions, reading manga, Pluto, Astro Boy 2 graphic novel, singing classic Astro Boy openings. And then, I check out creator's works and go on and on... My life...
Fun fact: As a child I had an argument and thus a small breakdown and I compared myseld to Astroboy from this movie in the argument /cry jnfront of my then best friend.
Okay but as a kid this movie back then was one of the greatest, I remember watching it multiple times because it would be the only thing on when we didn’t have cable.
Having watched the actual anime that started airing in 1952 (and this movie of course), I can only say that the film portrayed the introduction to Toby and his past and an episode of "action" in its duration. Talking about that timeline, and the fact that this was just a japanese TV shonen in the 50's, I'd advise everyone that the whole plot and the characters couldn't be more sophisticated than this, since this is just a 3d adaptation (and or a bit of a continuation) of the anime.
I was confused about the ending as well, but now I am older and able to make inferences it might have been an alien from the same planet or star that the energy orbs fell from. Or maybe another entity seeking the power the cores provide?
It's another Tezuka character, don't know what it's from, but I can say it's a boss in the GBA AB Omega Factor game, which has a ton of other Tezuka charas in. I need to look that up sometime... As for its role in this film I guess we'll never know.
Tbh I thought Nicolas cage didn’t like Astro boy cuz he never really knew his son since he worked so much and didn’t spend time with him so the idea of his son he had was different from who he actually was. I haven’t watched it in a long time so I might be wrong 🤷♀️
I remember this forever wdym man this movie was that stuff. But can we talk about how depressing the base concept of Astro is, this movie depicted it in a debatably even worse way.
I had a morbid adoration for this movie, tbh. I watched it all the time and i was always terrified, mortified and i think the first time i fully felt grief was when i saw toby dying and what his dad did to bring him back. I think this movie kinda rewired something in my brain, i fuckin loved it
Pig, everybody has their own version of the "fever dream" movie, mine was the Arthur and the Invisibles movie trilogy. I really hope you review it because all of your videos are great and will do the series justice.
I saw this movie in a theatre with my dad and really enjoyed it as a kid. Honestly one of the best memories I have where it was just my dad and I doing something together.
I'm quite glad that I was part of the small percentage of people that actually saw this movie, cuz it was a really good movie, especially from the perspective of my childhood :D
You just unlocked a memory I forgot I had. I think the peacekeeper is the reason for a fear of mine. I’ve seen this movie as a kid and for most of my life I’ve had this fear of human-made robots turning evil and out of control. Things like this scared me but sapient robots like the transformers didn’t, even though they have an actual capacity for evil. So I’ve come to the conclusion that this death scene might have traumatised me a little bit
I liked the montage of astro and the kids finding parts/fixing up robots a lot as a kid. the song choice was so good- I actually just looked it up not too long ago to add to my playlist lol
I loved this movie so much for a long time. When I watched Alita Battle Angel for the first time (sorta regret it tbh that was graphic) I realized the worlds in a lot of these sorts of movies are pretty similar (tho in Alita you don’t actually see the inside of the floating city where the rich people live).
My brother and I fought over this movie on DVD and we cracked the disc almost fully in half. The magic part? It still worked flawlessly. Idk what Hod or whatever was looking over us, but it became my favourite movie to watch just because I was impressed that it worked.
As flawed as this movie is, it definitely gets you in the feels. Tobi's death scene traumatized me as a kid. It's right up there with the mom vaporization scene in Mars Needs Moms.
This movie did make me sad and scared when I was a kid for reals, and most of the time I didn't understand what was going on in it, and everytime I watched it I just thought of my dad and the movie just made me feel weird
The movie really isn’t that good, but they nailed it with references. You see Hyoutan-tsugi on a billboard and a few character cameos who I don’t remember the names of. They even added the artificial sun (for some reason) at the end to wrap it up. All in all, we need a quality modern Astro Boy anime. The last one was the 2003 series for the 40th anniversary and that’s not enough.
I'm currently working on a fanfiction of Astro boy the movie, but I'm writing it as a TV show which takes place as a sequel to the movie, but I'm also bringing back some old characters from the show. I have just published the first 3 chapters on wattpad if you want to check them out. It's called Astro Boy: Core Collision. It's still being made though.
Used to play the old GBA game Omega Factor so much in my childhood. I tend to see this movie pop up every now and then. Kinda wish Astro Boy got more love as it looks like one of Tezuka's best works.
good to see someone talk about this. this movie was my literal childhood. every time i would hop in my familys van we would play this on the dvd player. i cannot put it into words how much i love this film
I watched this on cinema when it came out and the only reason I remember it is cause I was traumatized by toby's death it was so fucking brutal and sad for a kid's movie
It's a lot more brutal in the 80s anime, he drives a robot car after a fight with his dad and crashes into a truck. In the original Japanese version, it's extended to Toby in a hospital bed, Tenma praying for him to survive, then Toby dies a few seconds after making Tenma promise to create the most awesome robot in the world. Tenma cries over his dead body and then it fades into Tenma creating Astro Boy (or Mighty Atom depending on your language).
My brother and I were OBSESSED with Astro boy growing up,especially my brother, and he absolutely adored the movie. I remember my brother and I using a blue and red bouncy ball to pretend to be the core energies… such fun times :) So as a result I’ve seen that movie at least once and I’ve even got a picture book of it. Being a kid, I couldn’t really differentiate good and bad movies. Even if the movie is badly written, it is always nice to relax and delve into nostalgic every now and then. I guess I’ll rewatch it sometime soon.
@@DrCoeloCephalo oh we did go through the anime. We would watch one episode every night and went through the two series. Atlas was my childhood crush lol. Though I have yet read the manga.
0:49 Including me! As a little kid, I remember being FASCINATED with things like...the main character _dying,_ overpowered kid gets hunted down by the sorta government, and a battle arena where people (technically bots) are forced to fight to the DEATH! Since I was so young, it was just so revolutionary for me, and I LOVED it! Now, so many years later, I can still detect bits and pieces of Astroboy inspired angst in my own characters in _their_ journeys. ^-^