Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 206
Fresh: 148 | Rotten: 58
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 14
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it.
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Directed by Kerry Conran, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow revolves around the mysterious disappearance of some of the world's most revered scientists. When an investigation is launched, Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), reporter for the prestigious Chronicle, and Sky Captain (Jude Law), resident flying ace, are at the forefront of the case. Though the mission's perks include traveling around the world, the stout-hearted duo are nonetheless risking their lives with each passing moment, as
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Cast
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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Jude Law
Joe "Sky Captain" Sulli... -
Angelina Jolie
Franky Cook -
Giovanni Ribisi
Dex Dearborn -
Michael Gambon
Morris Paley -
Ling Bai
Mysterious Woman -
Omid Djalili
Kaji -
Laurence Olivier
Dr. Totenkopf -
Trevor Baxter
Dr. Jennings -
Julian Curry
Dr. Vargas -
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All Critics (208) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (153) | Rotten (60) | DVD (40)
This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
Top CriticThe clincher is how the actors are reduced to puppets and ciphers; Paltrow straight-jacketed in her Hildy Johnson-style two-piece and the evidently bored Law reduced throughout half the movie to giving the gimlet eye through flying goggles.
Such an interestingly silly movie that I found myself idly wondering what particular audience was being targeted with its peculiar conceits and infinitude of special effects.
His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman.
Generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of style-over- substance movies, but this one is so gorgeous that it's possible to become literally lost in the richness of the images.
Ultimately seems more like a fancy mechanical toy than a work of art we can warm up to.
Lots for both kids and adults to enjoy.
he visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold.
Sky Captain is just a lot of fun to watch; it's innocent, wholesome fun with a lot of brains to it that kids and adults will love...
"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" is a war movie without subtext. Its deliberate lack of moral coding and pandering effort to please audiences with a vintage cotton candy pulp that never was is more than a little insulting. At least it has Angelina
What made anyone believe this was a movie worth making or that there would be an audience for it?
Filled with style with a capital S, Sky Captain is a joyous combo of rollicking adventure, film noir and all the gee-whizzery of high-tech innovation.
Pure escapism saturates every frame of this exhilarating throwback to 1930s matinee serials.
If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it.
It's obvious even from the character names that Mr. Conran has a good grasp on his source material. The problem is, he doesn't do anything with it.
It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter.
A rollicking good matinee film for the whole family.
It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter.
Director Kerry Conran hasn't just mimicked his favorite serials and comic books. He's written a love letter to the full scope of 1930s and '40s films by basically making one.
For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it's just a labour.
It should feel like Star Wars, yet it fails to feel like a movie at all. Conran has done his work almost too well. It's as if you're sitting in front of an outsize comic book with a speed reader as page-turner.
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Foreign Titles
- Capitaine Sky et le monde de demain (FR)
