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Astro Boy Director Speaks
An anonymous reader writes 'The director of Flushed Away, David Bowers, discusses his new Japanese manga adaptation, shares his science fiction influences and relates Astro Boy's thematic relationship to Star Wars.' I recently was reading Astro Boy manga, and I'm very hopeful that the movie won't disappoint. It looks really fantastic, but visuals in trailers certainly can lie.
Grow up. Astro Boy is as one-dimensional a character as any you'll find in kids' cartoons –which is fine, it's a fun cartoon, not an epic of literature. He does not have "so much personality" in Tezuka's works. He does not have "a unique Japanese identity" (whatever the hell that means). Don't want the movie? Then don't watch it, and stick to the comic books. Or get off your lazy arse and make a better Astro Boy movie. Or at the very least, actually SEE the movie before deciding that it's an unholy desecration of a cartoon character.