Less thoughtful than Otomo's other works, but it has more heart. The plot is just an excuse to get some fantastic traditional and CG animation on the screen, but that's not a bad thing when a movie looks this good. I preferred the original language track, but the English dub is competent, indeed.

Overwrought, over-thought anime spectacle with some absolutely mind-blowing visuals from the mind of Otomo. Could have benefited from some wise surgical editing.

Goes on forever, has a couple annoying characters, and is too complex (though not too hard to understand) for it's own good. Disappointment. Nice animation though, particularly of the central steam castle.

If you learn "Close that valve!" in Japanese you dont even need subtitles.

The voice acting from Molina and Stewart make the English dub bearable, and Otomo's super detailed backgrounds and machinery make for one great steampunk epic. Paquin's voice work was annoying though....

Highly disappointing seeing as this is from the guy who gave us Akira. Akira, not only the film, but the comic even moreso, was incredibly compelling. This is overlong and boring. A shame.

Extremely well animated and completely action packed. Clearly Miyasaki inspired animation-wise, but shares nothing with his fine eye for storytelling. Instead the story is very bland, unnessecarely complicated and goes on for way too long.

The animation was pretty nice, even if it was accented by computer generated imagery, it was still very well done. The start of the story was intriguing - not knowing who was good and who was bad made it interesting. After awhile, it seemed to turn into a steampunk version of Star Wars, though it (pardon the pun) lost its steam by the ending. Anna Paquin does all right for the voice acting, but the accent she used gets a little old after awhile.

What a wild ride. Great animation and some shots (like a reverse dolly thing) that I'd never seen before in an animated movie, to the best of my recollection. Plot was a bit convoluted for a kids movie, and a bit long too.

The best part of this movie was the imaginative steam powered machines, and a particular favourite for me was the steam powered monowheel. Other than that the concept was incredibly outlandish and taken to the point where it became more of a hysterical joke than anything else. The animation in the action scenes saved the movie to a certain extent. Probably more at home in an RPG video game than a movie.

The animation is amazing, but it's really overlong. And though the story was complex, thematically it wasn't anything great. Also, most of the characters weren't very likable (especially that dog puncher Scarlett), so once I got over the steam spectacle I was kind of bored. Still a pretty decent movie overall, I guess.

Pretty lame adventure, and especially disappointing coming from Otomo. Much of the revolutionary spirit that was so prevalent in Akira is sorely lacking here, with much of the characters and plot points relying heavily on cliché. It is astonishingly beautiful to look at, however, so you'll probably enjoy this more if you turn the sound off and skip over the endless, boring expository scenes.

Too long to stay interesting all the way to the end.