Sometimes you can gauge how great a movie character is by how much you wish you could somehow actually be them.
Astro Boy is a 2009 computer-animated 3-D film based on the highly successful Japanese franchise of the same name by Osamu Tezuka.
The story is set in Metro city. Astro boy is about a young robot created by one of the world's brilliant scientist in memory of his lost son, however the robot uses it's incredible powers to become a world famous super-hero, and faces his biggest challenge when an alien race threatens Earth.
Astro boy blasts off on October 23, 2009.
Teaser trailer: