Tomorrowland
By Jason
Y.
Inspired by their own theme park
and the desire to make millions of dollars, Disney made Tomorrow-land most
likely hoping to recreate the popularity of the Pirates of the Caribbean
franchise. However this movie has none of the Pirates of the Caribbean’s charm
or delivery, instead choosing to focus itself on Heavy CGI and an actor who was
probably more focused on planning his wedding. This movie is only really
acceptable as a family movie, and even then it’s pretty stale.
The
story follows Casey (Brittany Robertson), just your average teenager whose dad
works at NASA, and we see as she destroys cranes that are taking down a NASA
launch pad so her dad won’t lose her job, already a very relatable character as
you can see. Her character never gets any more relatable as she has very
strange reactions to the terrifying scenarios around her. Speaking of
terrifying scenarios this movie focuses way too much on the bad and “scary”
aspects of tomorrow land, and ultimately the ending isn’t nearly satisfying
enough to warrant the middle of movie being so depressing. This isn’t helped by
the melancholy performances by George Clooney and Hugh Laurie who both were
obviously more interested in the check they get at the end then actually
putting on a good performance. It doesn’t help that Hugh Laurie was cast as a
stereotypical British villain. Actually this whole film feels stereotypical; it
may be just that Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird are huge fans of literally every
science fiction movie ever, but it seems more like they just copied a bunch of
cool shots from other movies and wrote a script around it. Every scene plays
out almost exactly as you expect it to. Does David Nix (Hugh Laurie) turn out
to be a bad guy? Yes. Does Frank (George Clooney) turn around? Yes. However there
is one silver lining. There’s one scene in particular where Casey picks up a
mysterious pin, it’s in every trailer you’ve most likely already seen most of
it; however this is the only moment in this movie that genuinely feels
pleasant. The atmosphere is relaxed and you can finally see the sort of Disney
magic this movie should’ve been. However that scene is quickly over and it’s
back to the darkness and despair this movie wears like a glove.
Honestly
this movie really should’ve been completely different then what it ended up
being. It’s alright to have a dark kids movie, but the ending was completely
anticlimactic. However there are some good things to be found. There is one
well executed scene, and generally the score is pretty nice; but the rest of the
movie just beats you over the head with seriousness. All the focus on sadness
and depression is why I give this movie a 6/10. Maybe Hugh Laurie should’ve
just stuck to curing diseases.
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