This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:26
Rotten:11
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is slim on plot and characterization, but the visuals more than make up for it.
Theatrical Release:Sep 17, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $37,747,092
Synopsis: In writer-director Kerry Conran's debut film, ace pilot Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan (Jude Law) reluctantly teams up with his former flame, journalist Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), to uncover the... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Kerry Conran
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Reviews for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Top CriticSuch 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.
10/01/04
Top CriticHis nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman.
09/21/04
Top CriticGenerally 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.
09/19/04
Top CriticUltimately seems more like a fancy mechanical toy than a work of art we can warm up to.
09/18/04
Top CriticA clever parlor trick but a dull movie.
09/17/04
Top CriticWith its silky textures and fluffed up fake-studio imagery, Sky Captain is like a big warm pillow that threatens to smother you in downy gorgeousness.
09/17/04
Top CriticSky Captain never exceeds the level of a clever exercise.
09/17/04
Top CriticAlthough Conran clearly enjoys the period, it's a stolen nostalgia -- you're not getting his memories of it, or even his memories of its films, but rather his memories of other people's memories of its films.
09/17/04
Top CriticMissing beneath its fabulous surface, however, is anything like a beating heart.
09/17/04
Top CriticSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow may be one of those films that leaves you humming the scenery, but it's a tune you won't easily forget.
09/17/04
Top CriticHalf of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a film of breathtaking vision and craftsmanship, a work of art that both summarizes the early history of cinema and takes it brilliantly, shimmeringly forward. The other half is not.
09/17/04
Top CriticWhat begins as childlike and filled with wonder ends as childish and fraught with tedium.
09/17/04
Top CriticA technological wonder from beginning to end.
09/17/04
Top CriticSky Captain is so breathlessly paced, so consistently entertaining and so visually dazzling that nitpicking at its inspirations is near impossible to do while you're enjoying the ride.
09/17/04
Top CriticAn amazing synthesis -- of computerized animation and live action, of new technology and star power and of a contemporary sensibility and an appreciation for Hollywood magic of the '30s and '40s.
09/17/04
Top CriticA breathtakingly beautiful sci-fi adventure.
09/17/04
Top CriticThis is a sophisticated movie, but one whose sophistication is surprisingly simple-minded.
09/17/04
Top CriticA $70 million novelty item.
09/17/04
Top CriticThis pulp fantasy spectacle is a fond tribute to beloved Movies -- with a capital M.
09/17/04
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