Was Astro Boy (2009) worth it?

[Majora Fi]

Okay, 17 years have passed... Was this movie a good Americanization of the franchise?

 

[Jeff]

I find it not too bad. It's better to be CG animation instead of live action like Dragonball Evolution and Speed Racer. It's a shame it flopped at the box office and no one really talks about it because it's not around Disney or Pixar levels of quality. Though it does follow a little bit to the original source material even though Astro is wearing clothes probably because viewers don't want to see a half naked robot boys that shoots bullets from his almost bare butt?

Anyway, it's a decent adaptation and I was hoping other classic anime that follows Astro Boy should get an animated film adaptation like Gigantor and Tobor the 8th Man and get a similar treatment without Hollywood destroying them.

 

[Majora Fi]

I find it not too bad. It's better than making it CG animation instead of live action unlike Dragonball Evolution and Speed Racer. It's a shame it flopped at the box office and no one really talks about it because it's not around Disney or Pixar levels of quality. it does follow a little bit to the original source material even though Astro is wearing clothes because censorship of half naked robot boys is a no-no for the US?

Anyway, it's a decent adaptation and I was hoping other classic anime that follows Astro Boy should get an animated film adaptation like Gigantor and Tobor the 8th Man and get a similar treatment without Hollywood destroying them.

Perhaps part of its quality lies in the fact that it's a co-production with Hong Kong (the studio hired to animate it came from there), and flop makes the film seem below average.