Review – Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

All that money for actors and all they could come up with was a big, expensive clothes horse for art direction and special effects. To be fair, the look and feel of this show is genuinely impressive, once you get past the inherent discomfort of watching a movie in which every single shot has been filtered, effected or otherwise modified. The picture does an admirable job of bringing to the screen the future as it might have looked to pulp-schooled eyes in the 1930s. Unfortunately along with the cool aircraft and robots and all comes the pulps’ witless plots and cardboard characters. Applause to the filmmakers, cast and crew for producing exactly what they appear to have set out to do. It’s just unfortunate that their aim wasn’t a little higher. Mildly amusing