It reaches toward the naivety and heroics of 1930s adventure serials without pausing from its throwback self-consciousness to submit to genuine excitement.
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09/30/04
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:201
Fresh:144
Rotten:57
Average Rating:6.8/10
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
A fantastic looking picture so obsessed with its own appearance that it forgets how to tell a story.
09/29/04
What we should expect of a night at the movies: Bold, clever, inventive, exhilarating — and often enough, magical.
09/28/04
While the film is an artistic feat, its story just isn't as gripping as its fantastically composed shots.
09/27/04
an imminently likable action-adventure throwback that reflects the saucy give-and-take of old movies as much as it does their visual schemes
09/26/04
It’s like a little bubble of an art project, simultaneously being an interesting experiment in a medium but also being an effective piece of art itself.
09/26/04
Merece ser visto mais de uma vez (no cinema!) para que possamos apreciar os detalhes espalhados pelos quatro cantos da tela.
09/25/04
...dashing and daring...visually rich in its presentation...cleverly combines the elements of surrealistic cinema that pads the excitement of this polished fanboy flick
09/25/04
Conran skips what chokes so much screen adventure today: extraneous characters, endless back story, ethical dilemmas, a tormented hero. He keeps Sky Captain airborne.
09/24/04
A retro rocket that blazes across the sky, only to burn out before landing.
09/24/04
Elaborately conceived and beautifully executed, the movie's a great marriage of fantastical, old-fashioned storytelling and new technology.
09/24/04
(Kerry) Conran, a rare rookie director given free reign over his digital domain, takes his place as a gifted innovator of robust retro.
09/24/04
Though this movie will pave the way technologically, hopefully, the next movie that uses CGI this extensively will also have a gripping story to go along with it.
09/22/04
Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should do it. Unless it means getting Jolie in a military uniform!
09/22/04
Whatever it does or doesn't portend, it's here, and it's one grand, good-humored ride.
09/22/04
The Art Deco future as it was seen from the late 1930s is the background for this super-paced sci-fi adventure. The plot is just a chain of action sequences.
09/22/04
Both a throwback and a leap forward, an odd yet satisfying marriage of now and then.
09/21/04
The World of Tomorrow is an enjoyable look back at a make-believe cinematic world that existed in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
09/21/04
His 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
This is as much of a breakthrough film as 'Tron' was.
09/21/04
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