Astro Boy [videorecording] / Imagi Animation Studios ; Tezuka Production Company ; produced by Maryann Garger ; screenplay by Timothy Harris, David Bowers ; directed by David Bowers.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Special features: Two animated sequnces: Astro vs. the Junkyard Pirates, The RRF In: The New Recruit ; "Drawing a hero" featurette; "The real Metro City" featurette; "Inside the recording booth" featurette; Astro-boy image gallery; "Getting the Astro Boy look" featurette. Based on the original comic strip series by Osamu Tezuka. Title from container. Voices: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nicolas Cage.
Summary:
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
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