Review – Astro Boy

Osamu Tezuka’s most legendary creation gets Americanized and computer animated to no particularly good effect. The recognizable voices for the cast (including Donald Sutherland and Nicolas Cage) must have cost so much that they had to cut corners on the visuals. The result lives somewhere between the quality audiences have come to expect from theatrical-release animation and the junk we expect kids to tolerate on TV because producers don’t want to waste a lot of money on them. Given the “classic” nature of the undertaking, I expected something more respectful. Mildly amusing