Of course, anime is often riddled with byzantine, incomprehensible plots and left-field twist endings - Otomo's own Akira is one example, and shows like Evangelion and its zillion successors have used this storytelling tactic to the point of it becoming a basic trope of Japanese animation. Several action scenes (mostly those involving Jason and Alfred) seem added simply to pad out the runtime of the movie, and all the "surprise twists" are either so obvious as to be ineffective or so out of left field that they leave you shaking your head.
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From the ridiculous overkill attempts of the O'Hara Foundation to capture the young protagonist, to the predictably lightswitch transition of the embarrassingly named Scarlett O'Hara (*sigh* yes, that's really her name, and yes, we've seen this before in anime) from obnoxious spoiled princess to obnoxious semi-useful ally, to the whole concept of Steam Tower itself, this movie is simply riddled with a frustrating plethora of plot holes and bizarre logic leaps. My big complaint with Steamboy is simple: it very often just doesn't make any damn sense. I'd been waiting for this film since seeing art for it in a Newtype as a newbie anime fan.īut all the money in the world can not buy you good character development or good pacing, and it certainly can't buy you a five-star film. It is well-established that Steamboy took ten years and some $26,000,000 to produce, the most expensive anime feature to date. The background work is incredible, and Otomo's vision is just absolutely tremendous when it's fully realized. You see, Steamboy is a visually incredible film.
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I've spent almost a week thinking about how to go about this review. At the center of it all: the imposing Steam Tower built in the heart of London, and its keeper: none other than Ray's father, Eddy. In his possession is a mysterious ball that his grandfather has tasked him with keeping - but the O'Hara Foundation wishes to possess it for military purposes. James Ray Steam (Ray for short) is the third in a line of genius inventors who have learned to harness steam to create powerful machines. Content Rating: PG-13 (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence.)Īlso Recommended: Castle in the Sky, Metropolis, Porco Rosso
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