July 7, 2015
Tomorrowland
SCORE: B-
This is a pretty good film. I liked George Clooney and Britt Robertson. Raffey Cassidy as Athena was an amazingly great child actor. On the other hand, Thomas Robinson as a young George Clooney did about as good a job as Jake Lloyd in SW:TPM.
The set up in the movie takes FOREVER, about an hour (and the opening bickering between Clooney and Cassidy is very annoying) and the climax/resolution is not that fantastic a payoff for all that we had to sit through to get there.
NOTES
-It's weird to see a movie about
Tomorrowland (which at Disneyland was all about a utopian future) and then see it portrayed on film as a dystopia. What gives?
-The final shot of the movie is beautiful, but makes you feel like there's a whole other movie that the filmmakers are not allowing you to see.