每一位看着卡通片《阿童木》长大的人，你们要是想重温那些儿时美好记忆的话，恐怕会发现自己很失望。电影版《阿童木》正在热映，这回它似乎与儿时的记忆无关，它只是一部电脑制作的动画片。

Those of you who grew up watching Astro Boy cartoons and want to keep alive the memory of those good old days just might find yourself disappointed with this. It`s the film version of Astro Boy and this time around it doesn`t help your nostalgia–it`s just another computer-animated film.

从里到外，这部影片到处充斥着好莱坞式的标签。由于运用了3D技术，阿童木的人物造型看上去显得那么的花俏时髦，永不落伍；如此花俏的造型，以至于人们纷纷揣测他的身上究竟发生了些什么事。在新片中阿童木已经13岁了，我们的小英雄穿上了T恤和仔裤，面容也发生了改变。或许唯一能勾起回忆的就是他那标志性的发型。

Inside and out, this film has the "Hollywood" brand all over it. Thanks to 3D technology, the Astro Boy character has never looked "fancier"–so fancy, in fact, that people keep wondering what happened to him. Now that he`s 13 years old in the film, the little hero`s put on a shirt and pants and has a different face. Perhaps the only thing that`s recognizable is his signature hairstyle.

电影情节一定程度上遵循原著内容，但也借鉴了好莱坞惯有的叙事手法。影片以未来世界一个名为大都会的城市作为背景，天才科学家天马博士在儿子托比意外丧生后，制造出一个拥有超能力的少年机器人（阿童木）。当天马博士发现这个机器人无法代替他早逝的儿子时，他遗弃了阿童木。随后，阿童木离开大都会去寻求认同感，最终他还是回到了大都会，打败了邪恶的史东总督并挽救了整个城市。

The plot partly sticks to the original story but it also follows a typical Hollywood story line. It`s set in futuristic Metro City, where a brilliant scientist, Dr Tenma, creates a young robot (Astro Boy) with incredible powers after his son Toby dies in an accident. When he`s not able to replace the lost son, Astro Boy is abandoned. So he goes out in search of acceptance before returning to fight the evil President Stone and save Metro City.

另外一些老掉牙的情节使得全片看起来有一点炒冷饭的味道：片中不乏个人英雄主义色彩（但这回我们的英雄是个机器人），善恶势力对比依然分明，两位主人公阿童木和柯娜（一个名为机器人科学小组的成员之一）之间也发生着微妙的化学反应。

Some other stereotypes make the film a bit clichéd: there`s individual heroism (but the hero is a robot), there`s a sharp contrast between good and evil, and there`s budding chemistry between Astro Boy and Cora, a member of a scientific group looking for robots.

可喜的是，片中的主题依旧同原著一致——寻找认同感，发现存在感，并试图告诉人类，机器人不单单只是一堆金属，它们也拥有情感以及人性特征。全片旨在向 “阿童木迷”们表达这个少年机器人真正的精神含义。尽管这样，当他说出：“这就是我存在的意义”时，当他决定冲入邪恶机器人的内部与之同归于尽时，他看起来更像一个机械超人或蜘蛛侠，而他们与生俱来的使命就是“拯救世界”。

Fortunately, the theme remains the same–the search for acceptance, finding a sense of being, and trying to tell humans that a robot is not just a bunch of metal but someone with emotion and humanity. This is supposed to remind Astro Boy fans of the true spirit of the boyish robot. However, when he says, "This is what I exist for," and decides to sacrifice himself by crashing into the evil robot, he`s more like a robotic superman or spider man whose mission is to "save the world".

此外，与那些仅供孩子娱乐消遣的无聊卡通片相比，《阿童木》一片有所进步，影片中蕴含了更多成人价值观。此类理念在迪斯尼和皮克斯公司之前推出的动画片中同样有所体现，如《海底总动员》（2003）以及《超人特工队》（2004）。那些深受这些影片影响的人们很难在《阿童木》中找到新鲜感。

Still, compared with other meaningless cartoons that only aim to amuse kids, Astro Boy has done a better job with its more mature value system. This kind of thing has repeatedly been seen in Disney or Pixar animations like Finding Nemo (2003) or The Incredibles (2004). It`s hard to find something fresh for people who were influenced by those films.

除了中文版幕后配音的全明星阵容外，人们还可以找到影片中的一些其他中国元素——这是由于中国投资方参与了此片。天马博士给予托比的那段不露声色的父爱正是典型的中国式父子关系。同时，阿童木的人类朋友，机器人科学小组的成员们也来自中国。“垃圾桶”——一只机械狗，试图用汉字来告诉主人阿童木其真实身份。

In addition to the all-star cast who dubbed the Chinese version, people may find several other Chinese elements in the film – that`s the result of Chinese investment on this film. Tenma`s unemotional love for Toby is a typical Chinese father-son relationship. And, Astro Boy`s friends on Earth, members of the scientific group, are from China. Trashcan, the robotic dog, writes in Chinese, trying to tell its master what Astro Boy really is.

为了吸引眼球，这部影片还采用了一些中国时下流行的网络用语，如：“不要迷恋哥，哥只是个传说。”然而，在一部本没有浓郁中国背景的影片中，这些语言有些画蛇添足。

The film also uses popular online language among Chinese to try to attract an audience here. For example, "Don`t be obsessed with bro. Me, I`m just a legend." However, this might be unnecessary and might look farfetched in a story that had no strong Chinese background originally.