![]() ![]() But even if you don't find the film especially funny, you should find it fun. Tomorrowland isn't as strong comedically as you'd expect it to be, given Bird's track record. But the entertainment is generally appealing and comes through with messages you can't help but appreciate as timely and important. Not every one of them is a home run and there isn't the feel that Bird is hitting upon something deep and profound as he did on The Incredibles, arguably the definitive superhero film. For the most part, though, Tomorrowland avoids derivation and homage, standing quite tall and proud on its own concepts. Therefore no one is" social commentary of The Incredibles. ![]() There's also a little bit to recall the "everyone's special, There are some minor echoes of Interstellar, which must be coincidental given the overlapping schedules and covert nature of the two productions. The two, who share story credit with Entertainment Weekly writer Jeff Jensen, pack Tomorrowland with the substance that might grant it immortality. But he and Lindelof also know that ideas and fun are what keep a film in favor long after its visuals cease to be cutting-edge. Bird, who made his live-action debut on 2011's franchise-reviving Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, knows the action and effects needs of a 2015 tentpole and provides accordingly. That is not to say that it is old-fashioned or behind the times, only that its make-up and storytelling sensibilities recall those of an earlier generation's hit movies. Tomorrowland has the feel of a movie that Steven Spielberg might have produced in the 1980s. This encounter gives Casey some understanding of the implications of her journey, which takes further shape when Athena, who hasn't aged since 1964, refers her to track down Frank, now a middle-aged inventor. ![]() Her Internet searches lead her to a Houston store of sci-fi memorabilia run by a couple (Kathryn Hahn and Keegan-Michael Key) who are not the harmless eccentrics they initially seem. When the pin's timer expires and, with it, its powers of teleportation, Casey looks to find another pin like it. She does not leave our world in the process, simultaneously moving around both worlds while experiencing time in the other. When Casey's stealthy activism lands her in jail, she leaves with a pin which she discovers teleports her to a futuristic world when she touches it. Casey's father, a NASA engineer (Tim McGraw), is soon to be out of a job and she is taking whatever action is necessary, legal or not, to delay the closure of the launch facility where he has worked. The scientific curiosity displayed by young Frank is also present in Casey Newton (Britt Robertson), a conscientious Florida teenager of today. With that, we're taken back to the 1964 New York World's Fair, where, as a young boy, Frank (Thomas Robinson) submits a nearly functional jet pack of his own design as an entry into an inventions contest with a $50 prize.įrank's creation is marginalized by one of the judges (Hugh Laurie), but catches the eye of Athena (a standout Raffey Cassidy), a young British-accented girl who instructs him to follow her party's It's a Small World boat ride to a secretive place of advanced scientific expression. The future wasn't always so bleak, Frank tells us. A man introducing himself as Frank (George Clooney) speaks about the world's future, which is ominous enough to be represented by declining digits in a primitive doomsday clock. ![]() Like Bird's first Disney movie ( The Incredibles), Tomorrowland opens with some direct camera addresses from outside the film's primary chronology. Though it does include some homage to the enduring identically named area of the parks, this is an entirely original sci-fi adventure which comes to us from writer-director Brad Bird and "Lost" creator Damon Lindelof. Do not assume because of its title that Tomorrowland joins The Country Bears, The Haunted Mansion,Īnd Pirates of the Caribbean in the class of films based on Disney theme park attractions. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |