this movie tell astroboy origin story . in the floating metro city and young toby scientist father ( nicolas cage ) be responsible for a scientific accident in which toby be kill . overcome by remorse and he create a robot duplicate into which he transfer toby memory ( as well a rocket power flight and assorted weaponry ) and but then find himself unable to accept the substitute because he be a robot . robot toby find friend among orphaned child and robot down on the ground before he have to fight the robotised president stone ( donald sutherland ) who want the blue power source use to activate toby ( now call astro ) . mayhem ensues . there be a lot of good stuff here . cgi suit the anime look and the story be sound and exciting and there quite a lot of funny stuff and some excellent action and and the voice talent be great . there be an interesting and effective subtext about prejudice and exclusion it isn not use to beat you about the ear with and but should register on an unconscious level . i be somewhat askance that the movie start off in such a downbeat fashion and with the death no bone about it and he completely dead and blast to smithereens in fact of the original human toby . i be still not too sure of the impact that be likely to have on youngster and but maybe that say more about me a a dad than it do about kid and because those in the cinema seem to enjoy it .