The design loses its novelty very quickly, and, with no human factor to ground them, the graphics simply can't carry the movie.
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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Reviews Counted:197
Fresh:142
Rotten:55
Average Rating:6.9/10
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
Sky Captain never exceeds the level of a clever exercise.
09/17/04
The film is a love party of noirs and flyboy pictures, King Kong and Things to Come, Metropolis and Lost Horizon, Radio Days and The Lost World, etc. in excelsis.
09/17/04
Style over substance -- but what style!
09/17/04
Good fun -- and great looking.
09/17/04
The visuals are something, the story something less.
09/17/04
Despite its flaws, Sky Captain indulges that inner kid who always wanted a single movie crammed with robots, airships and dinosaurs, with World's Fair hopefulness and panache.
09/17/04
Although 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 CriticLooks great. Less filling. But in this case looks count for a lot.
09/17/04
It's great eye-candy for film geeks. But it's fairly cold as a movie.
09/17/04
Admiration? Yes. Exhilaration? Sadly, no.
09/17/04
Half 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
What begins as childlike and filled with wonder ends as childish and fraught with tedium.
09/17/04
People who complain that they don't make movies like they used to are really gonna dig Sky Captain.
09/17/04
A technological wonder from beginning to end.
09/17/04
Sky 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 CriticSpy Captain may be an acquired taste. But for those who have an appreciation for old pulp serials and classic sci-fi, it's a real treat.
09/17/04
An 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
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