Review: Steamboy

[animation, movie reviews] Anime movies are known for their imaginative settings and original storylines. While Western animated movies often hark back to ideas used many times before, Japanese animators fill their pictures with many unique elements. Sometimes these elements can get a little bit incomprehensible and it has happened to me more than once that I lost track of what was really going on, but it has only happened rarely that I finished watching an anime and did not feel exhilerated by all the fresh ideas. Steamboy is a good example of a movie where story and setting are combined to bring something new. It is not successful for the full running time but, then again, it also definitely isn't boring!