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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

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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.

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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

Jan 25, 2005

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This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.

June 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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The 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.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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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.

October 1, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer
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His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman.

September 21, 2004 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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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.

September 19, 2004 Full Review Source: ReelViews
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Ultimately seems more like a fancy mechanical toy than a work of art we can warm up to.

September 18, 2004 Full Review Source: Salon.com
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Lots for both kids and adults to enjoy.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

he visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold.

September 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer
Cinema Writer

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...

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Cinema Crazed

"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

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
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What made anyone believe this was a movie worth making or that there would be an audience for it?

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinefantastique | Comments (6)
Cinefantastique

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.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

Pure escapism saturates every frame of this exhilarating throwback to 1930s matinee serials.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review
Sacramento News & Review

If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
eFilmCritic.com

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.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound
Big Picture Big Sound

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.

June 2, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

A rollicking good matinee film for the whole family.

April 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

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.

March 31, 2007 Full Review
Long Island Press

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.

October 11, 2006
Christianity Today

For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it's just a labour.

April 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

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.

January 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald
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Audience Reviews for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

A technical wonder of a tribute to the action/adventure films of 30's Hollywood ... lacking the most important element other than chills and thrills: character development, the human element, the ghost in the machine, the stuff that seduces an audience into caring about the schlubs jumping through hoops. The Indiana Jones series carry the same DNA and knew enough to break the action long enough so you got the impression of knowing the cliches always in harms way. This one regrettably misses that key ingredient. Still its a marvel of execution.
February 2, 2012
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In an alternate version of wartime New York, a dashing mercenary tries to prevent the evil plot of a megalomaniacal German scientist and his army of giant robots. One of the first films to abandon sets and locations in favour of green screen CGI, Sky Captain still looks surprisingly good. As such, it can be blamed for everything from the sins of Lucas and Cameron to Sin City but although the CGI looks dated, the fact that it beautifully renders the retro look of the 1940s means that it never looks cheap and nasty. Add some gorgeous art deco production design and a very attractive cast and this film is still rather special to look at. The plot, although rather episodic and convoluted and often just an excuse to cue up another visual spectacle, does successfully capture the cheerful corniness of the Saturday morning serials it sets out to reproduce and although I did tune out from time to time when the actors' lips were moving, it never gets overly dull. An entertainingly cheesy homage to Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers that does exactly what it says on the tin.
April 29, 2007
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