The film’s problem isn’t so much the grossness of its humor as the laziness with which it’s executed.
The film is conspicuously devoid of any sops to the adults in the audience.
The problem with the film, as before, is that it’s rarely as lively and funny as it should be.
Astro Boy succeeds at creating a complex world filled with second-class robots and sometimes careless, greedy humans.
Digital animation has elbowed claymation out of the frame and a certain frenetic coarsening has settled over Aardman’s latest.
It’s a faster, longer, taller Six Flags ride trying to outperform some dinky old thing from Coney Island.