It's bizarre that a film that is clever on so many levels can end up being so utterly stupid.This anachronism-packed retro futurist tale of science on the rampage in Victorian England was, at $20m, the most expensive anime ever made, took ten years to complete, and comprises 180,000 individual drawings.
It is stunningly detailed, but in all the wrong places. Not one of the main characters is even vaguely agreeable. Canadian Anna Paquin's appalling rendition of Sam's northern accent is just about the only noteworthy thing about the film's eponymous star, nicknamed "Harry Explota"by V. That and the fact that he remains so unphased about the grand-scale mayhem and careless destruction of human life going on around him, which we both found rather disturbing.
The energetic early chase scenes in Manchester (Marx and Engels appear as extras chatting in the background) had promised much, but Katsuhiro Ôtomo thereafter loses himself (and the plot) in what Ebert called "action doodles".
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