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Post by Yada on Dec 20, 2008 20:13:02 GMT
The Plot: After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world Cast: Jude Law as H. Joseph "Joe" Sullivan a.k.a Sky Captain of the Flying Legion Gwyneth Paltrowas Polly Perkins, reporter for the New York Chronicle Angelina Jolie as Commander Francesca "Franky" Cook Giovanni Ribisi as Dexter “Dex” Dearborn, ace mechanic of the Flying Legion Michael Gambon as Morris Paley, editor of the New York Chronicle Trevor Baxter as Dr. Walter Jennings, a missing scientist
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Post by Yada on Dec 20, 2008 20:33:26 GMT
What The Critics Said..
Chicago Sun-Times In its heedless energy and joy, it reminded me of how I felt the first time I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way.
Entertainment Weekly Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty
The Onion (A.V. Club) As an imaginative visual experience, there's nothing like it. Today, at least.
Chicago Reader A triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.
Austin Chronicle Everything here from costuming and production design to the note-perfect score from Edward Shearmur works in tandem to create not so much a film as a singular and joyous tribute to a vanished age when wonder only cost a nickel and played three time daily at the Bijou.
Baltimore Sun Gloriously retro, unashamedly celebratory of the joy of moviemaking and the love of old-fashioned heroism.
Observer The result owes a little to the 1927 "Metropolis," a little to film noir, a little to early depictions of H.G. Wells' science fiction -- notably the 1936 "Things to Come" -- and a little to lovably far-fetched sci-fi serials.
Chicago Tribune Conran has got himself a looker, with Paltrow in soft focus, the whole world larger than life and a title that, said in the proper low-pitched voice, conveys the tone of the film: exuberant, idiosyncratic and timeless.
Premiere Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a pastiche of everything from "King Kong" to "The Wizard of Oz," a movie that escalates to a breathless cliff-hanger every 20 minutes or so and reinvents itself with every reel.
Philadelphia Inquirer The film's save-the-world scenario may be the stuff of crusty cliff-hangers, its imagery may be borrowed, and its jaunty dialogue anything but deep, but there's something exhilarating going on here. It's darn sublime.
The Hollywood Reporter Other than the actors, their costumes, and a few props, everything in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is digital illusion, and the effects are often exhilarating.
TV Guide An extraordinary technical achievement.
New York Post A collection of such dazzling digital illusions you can't wait for it to hit DVD so you can freeze individual images.
The New York Times Too fixated on 1939 for its own good. Its passionate immersion in a past that only dimly resonates with younger audiences may be a badge of its integrity, but that immersion trumps its vision of the future and leaves us in a land of nostalgia
Washington Post This is a sophisticated movie, but one whose sophistication is surprisingly simple-minded.
Angeles Times A lovingly rendered visual treat struggles with indifferent direction and torpid plot.
Wall Street Journal The best way to see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow -- if you see it at all -- is as an interesting experiment that failed.
Time Conran hasn't attached his technical virtuosity to a ripping yarn or infused it with behavioral brio. The first of its kind often doesn't work; Sky Captain may be the Moses that leads other directors to a blue-sky, blue-screen promised land.
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Post by Yada on Dec 20, 2008 20:39:19 GMT
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