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On November 5, 2008, D3Publisher of America announced it would publish a video game based on the film. a The games were released on October 20, 2009 to coincide with the film's theatrical release.[13] Astro Boy: The Video Game for Wii, PlayStation 2 system and PSP system was developed by High Voltage Software and Nintendo DS by Art Co., Ltd.[14]

Astro Boy was released in the US on DVD and Blu-ray March 16, 2010,[21] by Summit Entertainment. Both releases include two new animated sequences; a featurette with the voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Freddie Highmore and Donald Sutherland, among others; three other featurettes about drawing Astro Boy, making an animated movie and getting the Astro Boy look; and an image gallery.

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Amelia Earhart! No, it’s the strange, somewhat surreal Astro Boy! Faster than a speeding bullet train, more powerful than an adolescent girl or any other gaga creature that comes at him, the Japanese cartoon robot has made the leap to the big American screen, complete with a golly-gee voice (Freddie Highmore), a handful of obligatory action scenes and the usual celebrity add-ons (Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane). Newly revived, he is again forced to wage battle against evil and, more troubling, endure some awfully cruel parenting. And so he zips and zags, keeping aloft in a movie that can’t always do the same.

Directed by David Bowers, making his solo debut (he was one of two directors on “Flushed Away,” from Aardman Animations), the movie serves as an introduction to Astro Boy and his origin story and, no doubt, a wished-for rebooted franchise. The story, set in an indeterminate future, opens with scenes from the life of a whiz kid, Toby (Mr. Highmore), the son of a goateed scientist, Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage). Before you know it, Toby has gone poof in an experiment gone wrong — involving blue energy, red energy, a giant robot and the insinuating voice of Donald Sutherland — leaving behind only a baseball cap and a strand of hair. Dr. Tenma subsequently pulls a Dr. Frankenstein and, voilà: Astro Boy.