This week's movie review takes us a little bit back to our childhood as we view the remake of a Japanese boy superhero, called Astro Boy. It started way back in the 50s and appeared in TV and print sometime in the 60s....which was WAYYYYYY before I was born. By the time I was reading and writing, the novelty kinda wore off.
Picture this. The superhero has hair combed as if it had horns, flew around topless (what is up with that???), had red boots and look suspiciously like a youth that is VERY confused about its gender. Is it a boy? Is it a girl? Why does it have fake long eyelashes?? Come on, it's supposed to Japanese and they are NOT supposed to have long eyelashes.
The movie was actually very enjoyable though superbly predictable. It had family values, it had heart, it had some light moments, some crying moments, fun for the whole family. It takes some time talking about the creation of Astro Boy and how he was trying to fit into a very weird future world. Seeing the best of the world and the worst of it and coming to terms with it.
Of course there's a bad guy and of course Astro Boy kicked some astro butt...literally. He has machine guns....on his butt!!! That I didn't remember.
I watched the show with my family and Mikey's 5 friends! Their seats were 2 rows from us, so that we don't inflict on our son the parent's curse of embarrassing him by breathing. So dutifully we sat far away and watched the show together. Our son is growing up..*sniff*.
Thank goodness he is not going to grow on Astro Boy and start running around the house topless with some cheap prostitute's red boots.
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