Reception
Steamboy was the 2004 recipient of Best Animated Feature Film at the Catalonian International Film Festival. The film received mixed reviews from critics.
Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post states, "The movie never transcended its elaborate production work to achieve an independent reality. It’s simply pictures of what could have happened."
Steamboy has an aggregated rating of 59% on the movie reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 88 reviews with the consensus "The story isn't the greatest, but there's an abundance of sci-fi eye candy to compensate."
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