Steamboy

steamboy
Originally uploaded by ericblauer.

I enjoyed it...as well as "Akira" made by the same director but this flick is way different. This film is in the "steampunk" genre which I really dig(google steam punk if you dont know what it is).

FILM SUMMARY
After more than eight years of development, Katsuhiro Otomo, director of the famed and beloved "Akira," has finished his alternate-history epic. Set in the 19th century where steam power is king and retro-futuristic machines populate the UK, young Ray Steam is an inventor of steam-driven technology following in the line of his father and grandfather. When Ray's grandfather sends home a "steam-ball" capable of immense power and assigns him to protect it at all costs, Ray becomes caught up in a battle of possession over the revolutionary device between him and his grandfather, his own father, and an organization that dreams of harnessing the steam-ball for war. Continuing from the gorgeously animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis," Otomo creates another visually impressive, action-packed epic.