Having gotten Disney+ for free for 6 months thanks to my phone company,I decided to look for more overlooked titles. Only having heard about the film in relation to it being a flop at the box office and a Brad Bird credit,I got set to escape to tomorrow.
View on the film:
Soaring onto the screen a project he had turned down directing Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015-also reviewed) in order to make, co-writer/ (with Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen) director Brad Bird & Life of Pi (2012-also reviewed) cinematographer Claudio Miranda ignite a Adventure movie atmosphere with a opening tribute to The Rocketeer (1991-also reviewed) that powers up outstanding special effects which seamlessly crosses Newton (played by a plucky Britt Robertson) between the real world and Tomorrowland at her fingertips.
Flying between the gadget thrills of his Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011-also reviewed) and the retro Sci-Fi of The Iron Giant (1999) Bird fills every corner of the screen with loving tributes to Sci-Fi flicks/characters,from Star Wars merch covering the store Newton visits to learn more about the Tomorrowland badge, to a "Stargate" being at the centre of the land, sparked in stylish 5 minute long one-take tracking shots gazing at the futuristic world.
Keeping the head of Tomorrowland (played by a wonderfully hammy Hugh Laurie) chewing the Stargate scenery, Bird intelligently plays round the PG rating with the decision to make most of the baddies robots, allowing for explosive beat-downs that swing beheaded robots across the screen.
Starting with a timer that pays tribute to his work on "Lost", the fingerprints of bumbling co-writer hack Damon Lindelof runs close to damaging all that Bird makes work on screen, with the "Mystery Box" of how to enter Tomorrowland (from it clearly being set-up of having to stay in the real world) being illogically changed with a flick of a switch that offers no answers.
Lecturing at the audience a environmental message that stops the Sci-Fi dead in its tracks, (Lindelof can't do subtle) Lindelof shuts the enticing exploration of Tomorrowland's futurism with a dire "across the world" final undermining the challenges faced by the leads to enter the location, which is all neatly tied in a romance between George Clooney and a robot who looks 12 years old in the world of tomorrow.
View on the film:
Soaring onto the screen a project he had turned down directing Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015-also reviewed) in order to make, co-writer/ (with Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen) director Brad Bird & Life of Pi (2012-also reviewed) cinematographer Claudio Miranda ignite a Adventure movie atmosphere with a opening tribute to The Rocketeer (1991-also reviewed) that powers up outstanding special effects which seamlessly crosses Newton (played by a plucky Britt Robertson) between the real world and Tomorrowland at her fingertips.
Flying between the gadget thrills of his Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011-also reviewed) and the retro Sci-Fi of The Iron Giant (1999) Bird fills every corner of the screen with loving tributes to Sci-Fi flicks/characters,from Star Wars merch covering the store Newton visits to learn more about the Tomorrowland badge, to a "Stargate" being at the centre of the land, sparked in stylish 5 minute long one-take tracking shots gazing at the futuristic world.
Keeping the head of Tomorrowland (played by a wonderfully hammy Hugh Laurie) chewing the Stargate scenery, Bird intelligently plays round the PG rating with the decision to make most of the baddies robots, allowing for explosive beat-downs that swing beheaded robots across the screen.
Starting with a timer that pays tribute to his work on "Lost", the fingerprints of bumbling co-writer hack Damon Lindelof runs close to damaging all that Bird makes work on screen, with the "Mystery Box" of how to enter Tomorrowland (from it clearly being set-up of having to stay in the real world) being illogically changed with a flick of a switch that offers no answers.
Lecturing at the audience a environmental message that stops the Sci-Fi dead in its tracks, (Lindelof can't do subtle) Lindelof shuts the enticing exploration of Tomorrowland's futurism with a dire "across the world" final undermining the challenges faced by the leads to enter the location, which is all neatly tied in a romance between George Clooney and a robot who looks 12 years old in the world of tomorrow.