Steamboy [2004]
Genre Anime
Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Country USA
Language English
Audience Rating Parental Guidance
Running Time 100 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
Cast
Patrick Stewart
Alfred Molina
Anna Paquin
Crew
Director Katsuhiro Otomo
Plot
The first feature Katsuhiro Otomo has written and directed since his watershed Akira (1988), Steamboy offers a fantastic, sepia-toned vision of the past-as-future. In place of the dystopic Neo-Tokyo of Akira, Steamboy is set in England in 1866. Young Ray Steam receives a Steam Ball, a mysterious, powerful device, from his inventor grandfather. Governments and businesses covet the Steam Ball, and Ray finds himself in a murderous conflict over its possession. He's also caught between his father, a 19th century Darth Vader who builds terrible weapons for an American arms merchant, and his grandfather, who believes science should improve people's lives. Otomo uses computer graphics to create dazzling visuals that few recent films--animated or live action--can match: monumental systems of gears and pistons; machines that dwarf the Tower of London; antique weapons of mass destruction. But the dazzling imagery can't disguise the lack of a coherent plot and the flimsiness of the characters. --Charles Solomon, Amazon.com
Personal Details
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Index 12
Collection Status In Collection
Purchase Price £15.99
Links Amazon UK
Edition Details
Distributor Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Barcode 5035822422537
Region 2
Release Date 27/03/2006
Screen Ratio 1.85:1
Subtitles English; Hindi
No. of Disks/Tapes 1