Those who know him primarily as the man behind crudely animated but ... For this purpose, the atomic-powered, iron-clad techno-naif Astro Boy was just what the doctor ordered.

“We actually see him in the same league as an Iron Man. We want to make it aspirational but not soft." Astro Boy was created in the 1950s, and ran for decades in Japanese newspapers. It revolves ...

Known in Japan as Mighty Atom, Astro Boy is a robot boy that was created ... “We actually see him in the same league as an Iron Man.” No director has been pegged as of yet, but the producers ...

Appropriately 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 ...

Finally going the big-screen, computer-generated route, Astro Boy manages to keep his innate ... borrowed liberally from “WALL-E,” “The Iron Giant” and “Robots,” to name a few of ...

For a movie about robots, Astro Boy is surprisingly wooden. But that’s not to say it doesn’t have heart. Based on the work of Japanese comic book artist and animator Osamu Tezuka, this CGI ...

It centers on a robot boy invented to replace his creator’s ... “We actually see him in the same league as an Iron Man.” ...