The second trailer just builds the buzz for The Wolfman’s spring release.

It was a light week for trailer buzz. THE WOLFMAN was the biggest thing to hit the Net, unless you count the bootleg versions of the new three minute-plus AVATAR trailer, which was gone in 60 seconds. Other than the big spring horror flick, there were a few of interesting indie pics to consider.
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Osamu Tezuka is considered the godfather of anime. Astro Boy is one of his legendary creations. Now Imagi Studios, who brought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to CG animation, attempt to bring this classic to a new generation. This of course is a film that different audience members will bring different perspectives to because it is based on such beloved source material. For me, I can’t claim to be an ASTRO BOY expert, so I come to this film with a rudimentary knowledge of the material. For me, this version of the tale was an entertaining and often charming animated adventure.

The story is set in a world where the well-to-do live in a city in the sky, while others live on the ground, which has become a trash dump for old robots from Metro City. Toby (Freddie Highmore, FINDING NEVERLAND) is the son of Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage, GHOST RIDER), a brilliant robot maker. When his father is set to unveil a new “peacekeeper” robot to the president General Stone (Donald Sutherland, THE DIRTY DOZEN), Toby sneaks into the demo. An accident leads to Toby’s death and the distraught Tenma creates a new high-tech robot in the likeness of his son with the boy’s memories and all. But when Astro turns out to be different than Toby, Tenma casts him off and he ends up on the planet surface where he runs into a group of orphans led by Cora (Kristen Bell, TV’s HEROES) and watched over by the robot obsessed tickerer Ham Egg (Nathan Lane, THE BIRDCAGE).
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