Tomorrowland is
a visual show that can be very inviting, but the plot setting is all too
mysterious and dragged out for over an hour before you can fully grasp what’s
going on.
The movie wastes too much time building and arranging its foundation that it
sometimes forgets to carry the audience along.
With all the mystery thrown in your face, robots being blown up, and an
impending doom ahead, you’re often left playing catch-up. The directing spends
so much time telling us about something happening or that has happened in
Tomorrowland that you get bored waiting to actually see it.
That said, the
movie is a science fiction adventure film that I did enjoy. Disney’s hope of
turning another one of their rides, like Pirates
of the Caribbean, into a movie franchise failed. Tomorrowland wasn’t
financially profitable and wasn’t well-received by audiences or critics.
The movie’s plot
goes like this: an adult Frank (George Clooney) is telling a tale of how he
ended up in a place called Tomorrowland.
We see him as a little boy when a girl named Athena recruits young Frank by
giving him a pin with a “T” on it. This pin allows Frank to enter a new world
where science thrives, complete with flying cars and everything you’d imagine a
futuristic society could have.
Frank’s tale is interrupted by another young lady named Casey. She starts to
tell us how she met Frank, and it’s her story that we follow for most of the
movie.
When the pin’s battery runs out, she searches online for answers about it.
Her search leads
her—and us—to encounter some angry robots, and we become aware that there’s
another side to the world we live in. Athena saves Casey from being killed by
robots and takes her to meet the adult Frank. This brings more robots chasing
after Frank and Casey, with Casey wondering why this is happening and what
Frank did to get kicked out of Tomorrowland.
The movie is
directed and written by Brad Bird, who also directed and wrote The Iron
Giant (1999), The
Incredibles (2004), and its sequel Incredibles
2 (2018).
As I said
earlier, the movie is visually entertaining, and all the fun it could have
offered is packed into the visual masterpiece Disney created.
I enjoyed the movie, but I can see why others might not have. I see this as one
of those films that’s good enough to watch anytime, though it’s a shame it
takes so long to really get going.
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