Last night Shelby and I went to go see Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow. I approve! It's certainly not the Best Movie Ever, but it made for an excellent evening of escapism and was by far my favorite out of the (admittedly small) crop of movies we've seen in the theater this year.
As expected, the visuals were stunning, a cross between Golden Age comic books, science-fiction pulp magazines, and every things-to-come article from every issue of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science from the 1920s and 30s.
User comments on Sky Captain over on the Internet Movie Database show a lot of people panning the movie, expressing disappointment over acting and plot. Evidently these people have never listened to a 1930s radio drama, or opened a comic book -- pulp of the olden days is obviously what Sky Captain is patterned after, and on those merits, it fits right in. The plot -- and the characters -- are primarily there to move you along to the next Irresolvable Cliffhanger or Amazing Thing. Go see the movie expecting escapist spectacle, and you'll be entertained.
Cities threatened by invasions of giant robots! Zeppelins! Airplanes that turn into submarines! Giant flying aircraft carriers! Hovercars! Gigantic Art Deco rocket ships! A sinister world-destroying plot controlled by an evil German genius! What's not to like?
Posted by Kevin at September 21, 2004 12:33 PM