My feelings towards the new computer animated take on Astro Boy have been sort of ambivalent up till now. But Summit Entertainment has just sent us a brand new, extended-length, action-packed clip from the film and it’s good. The action is well staged while some of the animation is fairly clever and even rather funny. My favorite running gag in the clip below involves the face masks of Astro Boy’s pursuers, which, seem inexplicably designed to display data on what’s going on with the inside each soldier's suit. Watch them closely.

Here’s six new images and nearly three and half minutes of action packed excitement from Astro Boy: