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Genres:
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Animation /
Action /
Family /
Sci-Fi
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Director:
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David Bowers
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Actors:
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Charlize Theron,
Moises Arias,
Sterling Beaumon,
Tony Matthews,
Kristen Bell,
Nicolas Cage,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Bill Nighy,
Freddie Highmore,
Donald Sutherland,
Eugene Levy,
Nathan Lane,
Matt Lucas,
Madeline Carroll,
Victor Bonavida
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)273.5
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Plot Summary:
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When a scientist's junior son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot youngster to return him, at any rate the clod uses it's wonderful powers to become a world praiseworthy wonderful-knight, and faces his biggest question when an alien the turf threatens Loam.
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Astro Boy
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Astro Boy
Andrew BarkerAppropriately for a film about robots, efficiency is the primary virtue of Astro Boy, a well-oiled CG-animated superhero pic that makes up in competence and vitality what it lacks in originality. Adapted from the classic Japanese toon, this thoroughly Westernized film will likely have little appeal to devotees of the source material, instead targeting tots and borrowing from a variety of recent animated pics. Slated for an Oct. 23 release Stateside, two weeks after opening in Asia, the film easily should draw sizable family crowds and hold their attention well; whether it sticks in their memory is another question.
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