Steamboy DC PSP UMD Movie MODEL- 11579 VENDOR- UMD MOVIE FEATURES- Steamboy DC PSP Movie Katsuhiro Otomo s first feature-length directorial project since 1988 s breakthrough film Akira. An action adventure state-of-the- art anime feature about a young, brave boy who must save London from destruction. Katsuhiro Otomo, director of the groundbreaking anime feature Akira, returns with this visually striking fusion of the past and the future. Its 1866 in London, and gadget-happy Ray Steam receives a mysterious package from his grandfather -- a tiny ball that turns out to be a miniature super-powered steam engine whose power is greater than that of its largest counterparts. As it happens, Rays gift is regarded either as a technological marvel or a threat to the safety of the world depending on whom you ask, and a group of agents from the sinister but powerful OHara Foundation (who fall into the latter category) know about the tiny engine, and are determined to get it. Rays father, Eddie, has fallen under the sway of the OHara Foundation, and tips them off when he learns that Ray is hiding the engine at one of the pavilions of the Great Exhibition that is the toast of the city. But Ray finds he is not the only one with the wonder engines -- the entire exhibition is being powered by a handful of them, and the OHara group is using its pavilion hall-cum-battle fortress to seize the rest. Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina, and Anna Paquin are among the actors who contributed their voices to the English-language version of Steamboy. -- SPECIFICATIO
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
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