Astro Boy (film)

Astro Boy is a 2009 Hong KongAmerican computeranimated action film loosely based on the manga series of the same name by the Japanese writer and illustrator Osamu Tezuka. It was produced by Imagi Animation Studios, and directed by David Bowers. Freddie Highmore provides the voice of Astro Boy in the film. The film also features the voices of Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Charlize Theron and Nicolas Cage. The film was released first in Hong Kong on October 8, 2009, Japan on October 10, 2009 and in the United States on October 23, 2009. The film received mixed reviews from film critics and it earned 44,093,014 on a 65 million budget.

A distraught Tenma secretly constructs a robotic replica of Toby, complete with his memories, but has inbuilt defences to protect him and is powered by the Blue Core. Tobys replica is awakened, believing nothing has happened. While he has Tobys mind, his personality is different in Tenmas eyes, when in actuality it is quite similar. Toby discovers his robotic capabilities including rocketpowered flight and the ability to understand other robots. Toby flies home but learns from Tenma of his origins and is rejected by him, flying away much to the sadness of Dr. Elefun. Stone, desperate to win a reelection, has Toby pursued by his guards but the battle leads to Toby tumbling off the city edge onto the Surface. Tenma and Elefun are arrested.Toby awakens in an enormous junkyard, created from the redundant robots dumped by Metro City. He is found by a group of human children, illiterate but smart Zane, twins Sludge and Widget, and the oldest Cora who has a grudge against Metro City. They accompanied by a doglike waste dispodal robot named Trashcan. Toby also meets the members of the Robot Revolutionary Front RRF, Sparx, Robotsky, and Mike the Fridge, who wish to free robots from mankinds control but are very inept and bound by the Laws of Robotics. However, they give Toby a new name, calling him Astro. Astro departs with the kids, finding people still live on the Surface. He is taken in by robot repairman Hamegg, who also runs a robot fighting ring. The next day, Astro comes across an offline construction robot Zog, whom he revives with the Blue Cores energy. Hamegg accidentally scans Astro, realising he is a robot, and paralyzes him the next day to participate in the fighting ring. ........

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