Even Ray left me feeling less than sympathetic. The fact that there are no good guys to cheer for makes it hard to care about the outcome of the situation. They want the steam ball for their own purposes, and of course, those purposes aren't honorable at all. As it turns out, even the people Ray's grandfather thought would help thwart Eddy Steam's dastardly plan aren't good guys.
Despite the beautifully detailed animation, the neat steam powered machines and the all-star voice cast that also includes Alfred Molina as Ray's father and Kari Wahlgren ( Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain) as the annoying Scarlett O'Hara (don't even get me started on that), the story is so uninteresting that I made most of my notes for this review while watching the movie. This is where the film utterly fails: the plot. At first, Ray agrees to help his father complete this wondrous steam powered castle, but then he learns that Dad's a nut job and no one can be trusted. Ray is taken from his home in Manchester to a castle in London where he encounters his father, whom he had believed killed in an accident in Alaska.
Don't let this thing fall into the wrong hands! Ray makes a valiant effort to follow his grandfather's wishes, but the kid's no match for the steam-powered machines of the O'Hara Foundation and winds up kidnapped. One day, Ray receives a package from his grandfather, voiced by Patrick Stewart, that contains a mysterious steam ball and the foreboding message that typically arrives with packages containing mysterious devices. Honestly, I wasn't paying that much attention. I was never sure exactly how old Ray was. Steamboy is set in London in 1866 and tells the story of young Ray Steam, a genius inventor voiced in the English dub by Anna Paquin. I don't know how else to describe how really awful this movie is except to jump right in.
The story, unfortunately, also feels like something that was worked on for eight years, with each year's work being lost before anyone could remember where to pick it back up again. Katsuhiro Otomo, famed director of Akira, spent a total of eight years working on the film, Steamboy.
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