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Admirable film.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

I wouldn't call this the best movie I've ever seen but it was enjoyable and interesting at the same time. The graphics and the drawings of the background were beautiful. It looked as if it was very real! I would say Bravo to the animators or drawers who were involved doing the movie!Anna Paquin did a mighty job playing as James Ray Steam aka Steamboy. You wouldn't think it was actually a young girl voicing the character. It's not that I'm sexist but I'm just surprised that she did a good job acting as a young boy. I suppose Steamboy looked so teen-aged so I suppose they decided to pick any girl in playing the character in order to no hear a rather deep voice. I suppose it would be a good idea too if they tried that out in the first place but there ya go! I would say this movie is good,it's just not a favorite of mine!

Rei (Anna Paquin) is a boy living in 1866 Manchester. One day, he receives a parcel from his grandfather. It's a Steamball which provide unimaginable power. Almost immediately he is confronted by two thugs from the Ohara Foundation. He has been warned by his grandfather to avoid the Foundation and find Dr Stephenson. Only he is captured by the Foundation which turn out to be working under the direction of his father.The animation looks dark and dull. There're so many shades of brown and grey. It's not the prettiest animation that I've seen, but it is very well done. I just wish that it was brighter.As for the story, I found it rather confounding. The boy is rather a stock character. Everybody else is either mean, crazy or annoying. Rei have to choose either his CRAZY grandfather or his CRAZY father. I don't see either as a good choice. Basically Dr Stephenson wants to keep the invention to power weapons for Britain, and the Foundation wants to sell the invention so that other people can power their weapons. And it doesn't make sense for the Foundation to attack the Queen. Not much of it makes sense. Maybe something got lost in translation. The last half is one action sequence after another. The context is all gone. After awhile, the action ceases to have any meaning.

Possible the worst Japanamation of all time. It had some good to very good animation, beginning threads of a plot worth the animation, but it fizzled. Admiditly, part of the issue is they do not really bring the viewer to the world, that is the underlying feelings of a era gone by.It is so far away in our collective consciousness it does not work well. My grandfather was born in 1896, he outlived everyone he knew everyone. He told me stories of his childhood. They were depressing on a scale that staggers the imagination at times. Could you imagine being so poor and hungry that you bought HALF of a raw egg?? They did that on streets of new york with a board and a pastry cutter. His job at age 4 was to walk along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn and pick up coal bits that fell off the coal cars behind the engine, very dangerous. Lotsa kids got killed like that. Steam boilers popped and people were horrible burned and died of infection. Disease and stink and filth were everywhere. This was downtown brooklyn or chicago or manchester etc. They gave you a taste of that, just a tad, not enough. When the Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24,1883, 2:00 PM . People closed buisinesses, they came out to walk over the bridge in total awe, BECAUSE THEY COULD. For a number of years people would do just that. They walked over water, that was unheard of. The achievement of man over water was beyond expectation. People would come and make a day of walking the bridge. Because it was mind boggling.If that was lost on many, well when they opened the Verizzano Narrows Bridge between Static island and Brooklyn, my dad loaded us into the car and we drove to NJ to visit relatives , just to go on it, we did upper roadway one way and lower roadway back, just to feel it. That is one thing they needed to give the viewer and they tried they really did but, they did not, well, not me. Next up they needed to fill you with the horror and disgust and hatred like that which was felt and directed at:Alfred Nobel, Merchant of DeathHe invented dynamite and became in todays money, a multibillionaire. He was so reviled by many as his invention just brought mo'better ways to destroy people. And the various anti capitalists of the day went at him full throttle. He eventually funded the Nobel Peace price, since he needed a way to have his name held in reverence, NOT revulsion. But the name "Merchant of Death" is well known even to this day.Unfortunately that persona and the inquests senate committees investigating where the money went, who got rich on various wars, while addressed amply I think, wasn't enough to carry the plot since the other things they did not have were too much to overcome. Since I studied euro/American history I can see the parallels, but the average person can not so it is boring. They could not/did not (for me) convey the awesomeness of New technologies for the time.Up to WWII the average person, was born grew up raised kids and died within 25 miles of their parents house. Only the destitute/starving/persecuted and the adventurous tried new things like "America". But that is only an opinion, my own. Japanamation is OK , but this one was as another gent felt, BLAH ciao chris

OK, a movie is supposed to tell a story, have characters a plot and stuff. This is fair enough, but Steamboy it's not the case:This movie is simply a vulgar, wonderful and unbelievable display of power. When i started watching it I tried to follow the story but soon I was totally amazed by the incredible detail and perfection of what i was seeing that I stopped following the story to focus on the real subject of this movie: Animation.It's simply incredible the amount of time and detail that has been put into the realization of this flick: no cycles, no repetitions, perfect blend of 2d and 3d until the end.So, if you are going to see it, take the story for what REALLY is (a device to display animation) and just concentrate on what you are seeing on the screen.