Steamboy 2004 123movies

Watch: スチームボーイ 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Rei is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the nineteenth century. Shortly before the first World Expo, a marvelous invention called the “Steam Ball”, behind which a menacing power is hidden, arrives at his door from his grandfather Roid in the U.S. Meanwhile, the nefarious O’Hara Foundation has sent men to acquire the Steam Ball, so that they can use its power towards their own illicit ends..
Plot: After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict related to a revolutionary advance in steam power.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 17,845
	60% | RottenTomatoes
	66/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 314 Popularity: 25.646 | TMDB

Reviews:

An extraordinarily inventive depiction of an alternative ‘steampunk’ Victorian era, but plotwise, it’s as vapid as anything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
The latest film from the director of Akira, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, is a pacy thriller anime set in an alternate 1850s London, in the middle of the industrial age. Rai Steam is the third in a line of engineer inventors who dreams of going to the first ever Great Exhibition – when his grandfather unexpectedly returns from the United States with an new invention, the steamball. About the size of a bowling ball, the steamball is a source of immense, self-renewing power and the people who funded the invention want it back at any price. Rai escapes on his steam-powered unicycle, and the race is on. On the way, he encounters a steam-powered cyborg, a giant steam-powered “Death Star” and a feisty, economic rationalist sidekick, the Gone With The Wind-inspired Miss Scarlett (Manami Konishi).

While the plot is nothing new – and very much in the Hollywood thriller style, the inventiveness of the world Steamboy is set in is exhilarating. Imagine steam-powered individual submarines, flying machines and more, all drawn in painstaking detail – with thousands of cogs and wheels all impacting on each other. Although some CGI is used, most of the film’s made in the traditional anime style – around 180 000 individual pictures were used to make Steamboy, and it shows.

Steamboy’s a rip-roaring ‘steampunk’ piece of entertainment, complete with an insane despot who plans to take over the world. Although it’s strange to see a film set in London where all the (Anglo) characters are speaking Japanese, it’s best not to take Steamboy too seriously. Comic relief is provided by Miss Scarlett and Rai’s grandfather, Loyd Steam (Katsuo Nakamura). Loyd Steam also speaks for the natural order, something that’s often found in Japanese anime and was inspired by both the animist former national religion, Shinto, and the WWII atomic bombings. Unlike Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, however, it’s barely touched on here. Steamboy succeeds because of the fantastic imagination behind the animation, not for its philosophy. ***½/***** stars.

Decent plot with exciting steam powered action
I’d heard good things about this film but was somewhat disappointed as soon as I put the disc in and found it didn’t include the original Japanese language sound track as I prefer to watch my anime subbed rather than dubbed. When the film started I soon put that out of my mind and settled down to enjoy the story.

The Steam family live up to their name by inventing a variety of steam powered devices, the most impressive of which is the steam-ball a metal ball the size of a football that can contain enough compressed steam to power huge machines for a long period of time. After an accident at a research centre in Alaska Lloyd and his son Eddie have a falling out and Lloyd sends the ball to his grandson James Ray Steam. Soon after the package arrives in Manchester members of the sinister O’Hara Foundation turn up claiming that it was meant to be sent to them so it could feature in the Great Exhibition in London. James flees on an exotic looking single wheel vehicle and is chased by thugs on a large traction engine… this exciting chase goes on for a while and includes trains and a Zeppelin. Ray is caught and taken to London along with the steam ball, he is shocked to discover that his father, who he believed was dead, is working for the O’Hara Foundation. Eddie explains how grandfather Lloyd went a bit mad and stole the ball, at this point Ray doesn’t know who to believe.

It turns out that the steam ball is one of three required to power a huge steam castle where the Foundation is hoping to sell their various steam powered weapons to anybody who has the money to but them. When word gets out and the authorities seek to search the castle the foundation deploys a wide range of steam powered weapons against them including steam-armour, tanks and even aircraft, finally the castle itself takes off leaving a swathe of destruction through London. Ray, his grandfather and the O’Hara’s daughter Scarlett must stop them before London is destroyed.

I thought the story was pretty good and the animation was pretty stunning throughout. I really liked the vast array of imaginative steam powered devices that appeared. The dub wasn’t bad and I wouldn’t have guessed that Ray was being voiced by a woman if I hadn’t read it here first. The accents did seem to be the sort only had by the generic Northerners who feature in period dramas, I was half expecting somebody to say, “Ay oop, there’s trouble up t’ mill”. If you insist on watching anime in Japanese get the directors cut, if it isn’t essential this English version is still enjoyable.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr 6 min (126 min), 2 hr 7 min (127 min) (Argentina), 1 hr 43 min (103 min) (theatrical) (Italy)
Budget 26000000
Revenue 18900000
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Animation, Action, Adventure
Director Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer Sadayuki Murai, Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Actors Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina
Country Japan
Awards 3 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Imagica Corporation, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm