>Directed and produced by Flushed Away co director and producer
>american writer
>Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell and Nathan Lane
Can we admit that this is an Zig Forums film ?
Directed and produced by Flushed Away co director and producer
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Robert Young
Seems like the guy decided to bail from Dreamworks after Flushed Away bombed and caused their relationship with Aardman to go down the drain. Can't blame him
Charles Lewis
He even took one of the producers with him
Joseph Morris
>Argentinian character designer
Yeah, i can't hate this movie. Call me biased, but those designs were great
Robert Reyes
Just like any other adaptation it has a place on Zig Forums.
Nolan Price
I thought it was a fine adaptation
Dylan Williams
It was certainly the better of the 2 Imagi films. I thought TMNT was really weak ( lacked humor and heart )
Isaac Edwards
And that would be the last time we ever heard of Timothy Harris, writer of interesting stuff like Trading Places, My Stepmother is an Alien, Kindergarten Cop and Space Jam.
Evan Reyes
Why did they choose this guy ? He was absent from the industry for more than 10 years by that point
Evan Sullivan
he spent all his space jam money on drugs
and he needed the money
so an old friend threw him a bone by getting him this job
Austin Taylor
I regret not seeing this film in theaters. Remember seeing this trailer before Cloudy with Meatballs and it seemed promising, but i skipped it.
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James Campbell
>Coraline, Fantastic Mr Fox, Mary and Max, Up, Cloudy with Meatballs, Astro Boy, Princess and the Frog.
There was some good stuff in 2009. We all like to remember CN Real, but it wasn't all bad. Even the films that kinda missed the mark ( Shane Acker's 9 and Zemeckis's Christmas Carol ) were still daring and engrossing
Joshua Wright
I really liked the nuanced here. Tenma partly rejected him because he thought Astro was different in personality from his son, yet the opening shows this wasn't the case. Tobio was just as rebellious. It just happens that Tenma was so workaholic that he never spent time with his son and thought he was perfect
David Brown
Never saw it, but PLEASE tell me they used the anime credits song by ZONE for the credits or sometime during a big action scene instead of some bullshit that was popular on the radio at the time.
Thomas Nelson
No anime songs. As for licensed radio music, there's only 1 ( from the 90s ) and it plays during a montage. Don't mind it
Hudson Richardson
It is. It may be based on an anime, but it's always been Zig Forums.
Brandon Wood
Whoever did this poster made a great job. It's kino
Connor Brown
You can't tell me Disney didn't take some visual cues from this movie, especially in the setting.
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Cooper Reed
I mean, holy damn, I REALLY wanted this movie to be good. And by god it certainly was *trying*.
There were funny moments, Nic Cage pulled out all the fucking stops and delivered a GOOD performance, and perhaps the ONLY sympathetic version of Tenma ever seen, and the Robot games segment was really great, and then even had a Chekov's energy source to keep Astro alive by the end.
But... Ergh. The girl character was fucking worthless, Astro's naming segment didn't just feel shoehorned, it felt like they forced ten pounds of bullshit into a 3 pound bag. And above all else while I can't imagine Tezuka *wouldn't* be on board with basing the film's conflict on the dangers of military research being the only way to get scientific funding and progress (no, seriously, that was a great start) the surface dwellers v. Flying city concept just-didn't-work, made worse by the second act's overall derailment that only got back on track when the Robot games started.
This movie felt like watching a kid with a sprained ankle refuse to give up on the 50 yard dash while his executive/father was sitting in the bleachers chomping a cigar and screaming at them to go faster.
Jordan Morales
There was no conflict between the city and the surface tho. It's just that the president was clearly insane and thought unleashing that robot on the surface would get him reelected
Michael Long
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Asher Ortiz
It's been like 12 years since I saw this movie, but didn't the film open with propaganda about how dangerous the surface world was?
Regardless after Astro lands on the surface, things just... eh. The movie just dragged and got weighed down by stereotypical kiddie movie fare that impaired whatever story they were initially trying to tell.
Ethan Miller
remember all those people living on the underside of the floating city?
they all died when the floating city came crashing down
Kayden Sanchez
That's pretty normal politician action for a Tezuka work. Get the robots to do something. Cause a problem yourself or make up a problem. Blame it on the robots.
Mason Carter
I don't know. The story is all about Astro trying to find his place. After getting rejected by Tenma and kicked out the city by military, he joins the orphans's family. It's not meant to be an animesque action film
Eli Gray
Despite the humor being childlish, i appreciated how the film has no pop culture references, toilet jokes or licensed music. This is more impressive when you remember the director came straight out of Shark Tale and Flushed Away. Kudos to him for not adding Dreamworks quirks in a Tezuka adaptation
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Chase Martinez
yeah the movie was pretty funny for what it is
seems like they did their best to respect Tezuka's work while still appealing to western hollywood execs
Gavin Morris
No, the propaganda video was about how cool and smart the sky city citizens were, and how the surface only deserved their trash.
Pretty stupid to set a conflict based on that.
Thomas Taylor
would've been better if the surface people were black or latino
Joshua Brown
Eh, people discriminate based on class all the time. I grew up the grandson of hotel owners, trust me on this.