Did anyone else feel uncomfortable that...

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Nope...I guess you don't know much about Astroboy since that's what happens in the original story.

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Stupid people make me angry.

I thought that the robot absorbed Toby which is why I expected him to return at the end.

Not at all. The fact that he died makes this movie a lot more powerful. There is nothing worse than a movie without the courage to actually touch people trough tragedy. That's just a movie with no balls.. and IMO that's the number one hollywood-decease - the aversion towards anything remotely sad! It can very well mean that the audience just don't care at all. Children should watch something that actually touches them instead of the sad majority of mindless emotionally numb "it all turned out great in the end" stuff. Better that your kids came out of the theater crying than indifferent.

Actually.. I would have preferred that the ZOG robot died in the end.. sacrificing himself for Astro. But I guess you cant have it all :)

As a kid I used to watch the Japanese version of Astro Boy and most Asian anime and cartoons are sad.. I don't remember the whole story but all I can remember is the feeling I had when I watched it. It has a sad atmosphere and it just has a shadow of sadness in it. It's like you always expect something sad going to happen. In this movie they put more depth for the cause of his death, it's like getting absorbed or like what another poster said "pulverized" by the robot. Also one would think was it the father's fault for not spending more time with Toby and instead made the robot who is actually going to kill his son or maybe if he let Toby stay with him to watch it then Toby would have been alive or maybe it is Toby's fault for not listening to his father. BUt then he is a kid, a very curious kid and a very smart kid at that. But they didn't dwell on his death too much though.

I think I will search the original (Japanese version) of this and see what happened after that, maybe it wasn't that sad after all..

One thing I didn't like much about the movie is the voice of the father, they shouldn't have gotten an actor who has a voice that is very recognizable. They used Charlize Theron and Kristen Bell's but their voice were just right Kristen's voice fits the character in my opinioin.

I was pissed off, to be honest with you. I never once, throughout the entire movie, warmed up to AstroRobot. I couldn't believe they actually killed the REAL little boy and uplifted the fake machine. That sickened me.

Where have all the good writers gone?

I didn't, I was sad but I was like "Wow....disney got a pair with this" sad things happen. Bad things happen to good people, why does everyone have such a spazz fit when little kids learn that? Or the subject is even touched upon?

"Because I knew you, I have been changed...for good."
" You flip flopping ass piece of bitch"

Not just that.

I thought it was pretty dark that Astro knowingly goes on a suicide mission to kill the red robot.

Just a really weird message for its intended audience: "Yes! Kill yourself! (If it's for the right reason, of course!)"

Of course, there was a [literal] deus ex machina that revives him, but Astro had no possible knowledge of this before he goes on his martyr mission.