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Sky Captain and the World of
Tomorrow is what having a good time
at the movies is all about. It's funny
and extremely exciting, packed with
the kind of gee-whiz awe that rarely
makes it to the big screen.
Refreshingly, it does so without one
bit of camp or irony in its bones.
Hearkening back to the sci-fi pulp of
the 1940's, the film's look is a living
and breathing homage of everything
from Max Fleisher Superman cartoons
to Flash Gordon serials. The visual
world that director Kerry Conran and
his production designer/brother Kevin
meticulously realized is one where the
imagination of yesteryear is translated
through the help of modern
technology into a magical place where
big robots and jetpacks reign
supreme. Though the groundbreaking
effects define Sky Captain's world, it's
the characters who populate it that
pull it all together. While Jude Law and
Gwyneth Paltrow don't exactly make
movie duo legends, they revel in their
cute banter and frankly do an
extraordinary job interacting with sets
that were never there. Too often
supporting roles in adventure films are
made to be broad comic fodder, but
here Giovanni Ribisi takes a subtle
turn as the sidekick and it works, as
does Angelina Jolie, whose tough
British sneer chews up the screen
charmingly well. An impressive start
out of the gate for first-timer Conran
who gets to live out his dream here,
satisfying audiences in a way that even
the Hollywood heavyweights have a
hard time delivering these days. If this
marks a beginning in how technology
is figured into moviemaking, you
would hope that people would not just
look at how they made it, but why it
was made in the first place. ~
Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
Movie Details:
• Genre: Adventure, Science
Fiction
• Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow,
Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni
Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Bai Ling
and Omid Djalili
• Director: Kerry Conran
• MPAA Rating:
• Screen Format: Enhanced
Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Sound: DDS2.0/DD5.1
• Subtitles: English /
Spanish
• Studio: Riff Raff
Features:
• Commentary by producer Jon Avnet
• Commentary by writer and director
Kerry Conran and the VFX crew
• Brave New World - Chapter 1 &
Chapter 2
• The Art of World of Tomorrow
• The original six-minute short
• Deleted scenes and Gag reel
Click here for
the trailer.
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