I had the opportunity to view Astroboy as a trailer before seeing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.  It sadly cast a shadow over the beginning of "Cloudy" as my children were laughing and I was hoping they'd soon be forgetting the last scene of the trailer:

Astroboy, a robot-turned-boy sort of creature, is bending over to get something out of something. Suddenly out of the back of his pants comes two machine gun barrels that subsequently shoot. "Hey, who put a machine gun in my butt?" the boy says.

My kids laughed, mentioned it once during the opening credits of the movie we were going to see, and I stared ahead in hopes of the old parenting adage that if I ignore it, they'll forget it.  Thank heavens they did. The trailer was laden with guns, shooting, firing, danger, and all things I try and keep my kids away from.  Now I know I cannot keep my kids away from this type of movie forever, and in truth I was willing to give the movie a shot.  However when the machine gun-butt appeared, that closed the deal.

No, I will not be seeing Astroboy, and neither will my kids for a long, long time.