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Charliebrownau Astroboy Rant - 80's series vs revamped 2009 movie

Astro boy is one of those really retro awesome cartoon (Animation with USA english dub) shows back in the 80's I watched when I was younger growing up . Other great shows on TV at that time was Voltron , Transformers , Monkey Magic and Dr who with Tom Baker.

Astro boy for the un educated that has never had the great experince of watching the show is a fictional cartoon series about a Robot Kid designed by a professor that ends up fighting crime . He has rockets that come out of his feet to allow him to fly , laser that fires out of his finger and machine gun in his butt .

For more information Wiki has a great entry on the series
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_(1980_TV_series)

I just came across a Astro Boy 2009 Movie mentioned on IMDB and looking at the pics its truely been americanised , which is a shame . What was wrong with the 80's look which (I cant confirm) might of followed the proper manga look .

Info on the 2009 remake on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro_Boy_(film)
and
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375568/

The dates of the release of the movie on IMDB currently list only a few countries :

Japan	23 October 2009
USA	23 October 2009
Turkey	30 October 2009
Brazil	20 November 2009

So it wouldnt take much to image that the Australian local release is going to be Nov-Dec-Jan
but you never know it could come out in AU in Oct 2009 .