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Imagi Studios has a lot to prove in my opinion.
They royally sucked the life out of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with last year’s TMNT. I mean, that old Saturday Morning computer animated kids’ show, ReBoot, is still exponentially more badass than TMNT, which had for source material one of the most freeing, original and well known kids’ properties of our time. And given, I know I wasn’t the film’s target demo, but still.
If I had a kid or knew if I had nephews I wouldn’t let him/her watch that movie; it’s that bad for the imagination and for the eyes. Imagi made the first animated Ninja Turtles movie [...]

Our friends at FirstShowing.net got the chance to interview AstroBoy director Colin Brady, and were given an exclusive look at concept art from the upcoming computer animated film (as seen above, check FS.net for more). Brady reveals that the film will be an origin story using “a mix of popular American and Japanese actors”, and that Imagi is shooting for “as hard PG as we can.”
Hard PG? Never heard that before. Brady claims that the robot violence lets them get away with more than “humans fighting each other with guns.” Brady seems to be saying all the right things to get me excited about the project:
“We’re trying to create a [...]