It’s also a world the movie spends remarkably little time in. Bird’s camera captures it with the wandering, awed gaze of a child - in one particular sequence drifting from incredible sight to incredible sight in the span of a continuous, minutes-long shot. Production designer Scott Chambliss riffs off the style of Disneyland and architect Santiago Calatrava to create a retro-future world that captures the essence of the 1960s space race aesthetic at a glance. A glorious retro-future worldĪs glimpsed in the trailer above, the film’s Tomorrowland is a wondrous landscape of levitating trains and jet packs. There’s also Hugh Laurie’s rather generic bad guy, Nix, and of course Tomorrowland itself. Going too much into the movie’s plot mechanics would rob it of its weird, exploratory tension, but suffice it to say that there’s an idealistic teenaged girl named Casey (Britt Robertson), a grumpy old man called Frank (George Clooney), and a child (Athena, played brilliantly by Raffey Cassidy) trying to bring them both together. I’m also in love with it.ĭirected by Bird ( The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) - who co-wrote with Lost’s Damon Lindelof - Tomorrowland has kept things mysterious with its trailers thus far, and I’m largely going to adhere to that. Especially the imperfect ones - the ones that require us to look past their deficiencies and glaring weaknesses to see the benefit within, the ones that force us to adjust our perspective and come to grips with the jarring juxtaposition between the way they disappoint us, but still leave us with a feeling of hope and wonder - hell, even childish delight.īrad Bird’s new movie Tomorrowland comes out this weekend, and it’s a strange, awkward, contrarian mess at times.
What can be hard is looking past that cynicism and admitting to actually liking things. It’s an easy shorthand that gives us all a common frame of reference and a fight in which to take up arms, but perhaps most importantly - and here’s the dirty not-so-secret - it’s safe. A new phone doesn’t offer enough features a watch isn’t a replacement for your cell phone a movie doesn’t deliver to the same degree that its predecessor did. Particularly online, where we tend to grade things not by the ways in which they succeed, but by the degrees in which they fail to meet our expectations.
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