The girl is an industrial titan's daughter with a toy-size yap dog, Columbus the two are an Industrial Revolution equivalent of Paris Hilton with her equally pampered chihuahua, Tinkerbell. As was briefly true of her "Gone With the Wind" namesake, she is aligned with war profiteers, who are slyly manipulating her. Scarlett is annoying and spoiled, but not completely heartless. and the good half of Gollum.Ī misguided tween called Scarlett O'Hara is London's newest arrival, in town to see the Crystal Palace and an exhibition therein. As a venerable voice of reason, Ray's loin-clothed, oddly muscular grandfather displays hints of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, E.T. Both father and son enjoy the same flirtation with the extreme, the chance to test their inventive powers even when the results veer toward destruction. The film borrows iconography from various hero quests, with Ray and his dad suffering through a Luke Skywalker-Darth Vader dynamic. And like many sci-fi heroes, young Ray enjoys the airborne joy ride on a personal jet pack. This entire wedding-cake of a building soon lifts off like a rocket. Tubes, for instance, carry voices throughout a building, like a primitive intercom.
The director Katsuhiro Otomo, known for the acclaimed "Akira," comes up with ingenious methods of giving machine-age gadgetry some space-age capabilities. But the bright ideas of the inventors are eclipsed by the dark drive for profits, and a young British boy named Ray (with the voice of Anna Paquin) slows down the troublemakers on their warpath. Scientists and speculators in the energy racket are eager to display their wares, souped-up steam engines that put awe-inspiring inventions in motion. In this mind-bending, elaborate anime, the industrial era is reimagined as a time of steam-powered aggression, with American capitalists arriving in London on a mission to fool Britannia.
Opens today nationwide Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo PG-13, 106 minutes
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