Amazon.com: While setting a milestone in the progress of digital filmmaking, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow resurrects a nostalgic fantasy world derived from a wide variety of vintage inspirations. It's a dazzling dream for anyone who appreciates the look and feel of golden-age sci-fi pulp magazines, drawing its unique, all-digital design from such diverse sources as Howard Hawks adventures, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, Blackhawk comics, The Third Man, cliffhanger serials, and the action-packed Indiana Jones franchise. Writer-director Kerry Conran's feature debut is also guaranteed to inspire digital dreamers everywhere, suggesting a paradigm shift in the way CGI-dominated movies are made. It's a giddy adventure for the young and young-at-heart, in which ace pilot "Sky Captain" Joe Sullivan (Jude Law) and intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) must save the world from a mad scientist whose vision of the future has tragic implications for all humankind. Angelina Jolie drops in for a glorified cameo, but it's the ultra-fortunate neophyte Conran who's the star here. His clever riff on The Wizard of Oz is a marvel to behold, and the method of its creation is nothing less than revolutionary. --Jeff Shannon
GREAT ENTERTAINMENT UNLIKE ANYTHING BEFORE IT!!! MAGNIFICENTLY ORIGINAL! I've read many of the negative reviews of this film, and I'm astonished at some of the complaints people have come-up with. Well, don't listen to them. If you're looking for something very different from what you've ever seen before (with a pretty good fantasy story line as well) just turn your brain off for a while, and enjoy the stunning visualizations that unfold before your very eyes! The incredible talents who produced this film should be proud of their stunning accomplishment!
Fun enough, but nothing more Sci-fi adventure movie set in an alternative 1939. When giant robots appear out of nowhere and start attacking various nations around the world, plundering their gas, oil and other natural resources, the whole world is mystified as to where they come from and who is behind them. It is up to hero and elite fighter pilot Sky Captain (played by Jude Law) to get to the bottom of this mystery and identify whoever is behind these attacks, as well as their motives, and to bring them to justice. Sky Captain sets off on this mission accompanied by ruthless reporter and former love interest Polly Perkins (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) - who he can't stand. But they must learn to get along and work together if they are to survive the dangers that they will face in their perilous quest. An okay sci-fi film, with very good special effects - the last half an hour is especially good - and an interesting black and white look which is a nod to the comic book serials of the 1930s but which suffers from a plot that is just too basic and a daft premise in which the whole world looks up to a man called Sky Captain to protect them from the forces of evil whose claim to fame is that he can fly a plane (he has no special abilities and can't even fight particularly well). Fun enough, but nothing more. (Note: this film also features Angelina Jolie as a military commander.)
Suspend belief & just have fun! Above average comic book movie. Story was silly but so were most of the movies made in the 30s. This was along the line of the ole Buck Rogers fantacies but with the benefit of state of the art special effects.
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Sky Captain...... Good special effects, a little hard to get into. I'll watch it again before I finalize an opinion.
BIG movie!! Lots of extras!!! Good "homage' to the Sci/Fi movies of the 50's... "Must have" for the serious Sci/Fi movie fan!!!
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