Astro Boy

I love that this kid has purple angular hair in a movie where all the architecture is Art Deco Streamline.



Does this dog have two sets of ears? Somehow, this does not freak me out as much as I would expect it to.


There is a little bit of the rustic look in this movie and there is some texture. More texture than "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and less texture than "9".



The coloring in this movie is similar to "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" though the color scheme seems more exact in this movie where as "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" used the entire rainbow. However, both movies feature soft colors with soft facial features and lots of light.

Astro Boy seems to have a very Pinochio type aspect to him in that he is a "real boy" but does not have a real body.


It seems that robots in the movies are big in the past couple of years; "Astro Boy", "9" and "Iron Man" all are lighting up the big screen. All these movies have a common theme which is that technology has its strengths and weaknesses; its positive aspects and its damaging ones. What's thought provoking is that all of these movies have successfully communicated this message with different aesthetics and set in different time periods/worlds.