Steamboy - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
by Katsuhiro ?tomo
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Actor: Anne Suzuki, Katsuo Nakamura, Kiyoshi Kodama, Manami Konishi, Masane TsukayamaDirector: Katsuhiro ?tomo
Brand: STEAMBOY
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Steamboy - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: excellent anime
Summary: 5 Stars
When I saw a preview of Steamboy and the obvious gorgeous animation I knew I needed to buy a copy. It's a nice story with an interesting 19th science premise and top notch Japanese animation on a par with the very best. There may be a few too many valve and lever adjustments here and there, but overall it is a gem. Beautiful music theme!
Summary of Steamboy - Director's Cut (Widescreen Edition)
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.
Steamboy is being released in a dubbed version that's been shortened by 20 minutes, and a more satisfying subtitled version that preserves Otomo's original pacing. Both versions suggest that Steamboy is the work of an important filmmaker who can't quite shape his awesome visions into a effective narrative. (Rated PG-13 for action violence.) --Charles Solomon
Set in Victorian London, a young inventor finds himself torn between two factions who are after the revolutionary \""Steam ball,\"" an item that holds a secret menacing power.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: STEAMBOY
Title: STEAMBOY
Street Release Date: 07/26/2005
Genre: ANIMATION
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