Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [HD DVD] | ![Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [HD DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HH4C4AAGL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Kerry Conran
Actors: Julian Curry, Michael Gambon, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Olivier
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 19234
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Media: HD DVD
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: HD070404
UPC: 097360704044
EAN: 0097360704044
ASIN: B000GTJT0M
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 2004
Release Date: November 3, 2006
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While setting a milestone in the progress of digital filmmaking, ISky Captain and the World of Tomorrow/I 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 IMetropolis/I, IBuck Rogers/I, IBlackhawk/I comics, IThe Third Man/I, 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 IThe Wizard of Oz/I is a marvel to behold, and the method of its creation is nothing less than revolutionary. I--Jeff Shannon/I
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An ""A for Effort.....even though effort starts with an "E" March 16, 2007
Paul Mackinnon (halifax, nova scotia, canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sky Captain wants to be what Star Wars and Indiana Jones were in their respective debuts. Star Wars was based on the old sci-fi serials, like "Flash Gordon", with a dash of "Lord of the Rings". Raiders of the Lost Ark also took its cues from the serials, like "Lash LaRue". However, those films were infused with a serious approach, state of the art filmmaking, and a welcome updating, in terms of dialogue. br / br /Sky Captain attempts the same. Using a bold approach with CGI effects (which, alas, will look terribly dated in no time at all), it wants to recreate those sci-fi serials, with a cue to the more serious work of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis". The casting is spot-on (both Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow easily pass as 1940s stars of the silver screen), and the design is beautiful (especially the sequences in New York City), and everyone tries their best. br / br /Unfortunately, it all comes off as too lightweight. Raiders, Star Wars, and the recent King Kong were a lot of fun, but they always took their subject matter seriously. You became lost in their worlds. Throughout Sky Captain it never seemed anything more than a clever parody of an old film. Which is too bad. The film is fun, and its heart is definitely in the right place. It has a unique look. But somehow it is forgettable fluff. Which is okay - but I think this movie is just a nudge away from being truly great. I look forward to what this director does next. br /
 All style and no substance July 10, 2006
Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can appreciate what the filmmakers tried to do here - pay tribute to those pulp comic books and campy sci-fi films of the Golden Era (which I love, by the way) while also trying to revolutionize the whole art of CGI effects - but there's really no hiding the fact that Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is one dog of a movie. I'm not talking about an adorable little Yorkie or even a cute but annoying Chihuahua; I'm talking about one great big mangy, mud-covered, tick-infested, shaggy mutt of a dog. The whole story is ridiculous, the script is consistently groan-inducingly dreadful, and the acting is about as bad as I've seen in a long, long time. Don't count on Angelina Jolie (in little more than a cameo) to bail this one out; it's way too far gone before she ever shows up. br / br /So what do we have here? Well, in what is best described as some futuristic 1930s world (and how crazy does that sound?), there's some mad scientist sending legions of humongous robots to reek havoc all over the world. It's like The Iron Giant was seduced by the dark side of the force and then cloned a bazillion times. On the ground, we have the intrepid and incredibly annoying reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), who's on the story of several missing scientists when the giants attack. Helpless authorities send out the equivalent of a bat signal to Sky Captain, aka Joe Sullivan (Jude Law). This guy apparently spends all of his time flying in his P-40 just waiting for a call to save the world (and don't even get me started on the whole "gas mileage" issue). As the story progresses, Perkins and Sky Captain team up to discover who is causing all of this mischief so they can track him down to his hidden lair and save the world. In between aerial battles and visually incredible flying sequences, our two heroes constantly snipe at each other over their former love affair. No matter how tense the action gets, or how few seconds the world is away from annihilation, these two always make the time to bicker like a couple of teenagers who just broke up. The addition of Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie) aboard her top-secret flying platform somewhere over Asia only adds fuel to the extended lovers' spat. br / br /I won't even begin to describe all of the science fiction shenanigans writer-director Kerry Conran throws into this film (the words "everything but the kitchen sink" come to mind). All of these special effects are, I suppose, the real selling point of the film. They are - for the most part - quite impressive, and the whole movie certainly has a unique look and feel to it, what with basically everything but the prominent actors being a creation of CGI effects. I'm sure the actors had quite a time performing all of their scenes in front of blue screens, but they never really had much of a chance given the mediocre script. I have mentioned just how dreadful the dialogue in this film is, haven't I? Conran doesn't just run a gag into the ground - he tunnels all the way through to China with it. And it continues all the way through the final line; I really wanted to just slap somebody after this movie finally ended. br / br /As impressive as the CGI effects of this movie are, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow actually offers compelling evidence that CGI-created films such as this are not a good idea at all - I never bought into the idea that these characters were actually in the environment, and that necessarily prevented me from connecting to these characters at all. Special effects do not a movie make. I mean, a rose is pretty to look at, but I don't want to stare at one for over an hour and a half. It really doesn't take very long for you to get used to the unusual look of this film, and after that point you're left with nothing more than bad actors delivering painful dialogue from a mediocre script. My oohs and aahs were greatly outnumbered by my groans and "for Pete's sake" comments during the film.
Only two shots left June 28, 2006
B. Chandler (Arlington, Texas)
This is a 2004 view of what a 1930's view of the future could look like. Most of the CGI and blue-screen overlays had to be a tad fuzzy to make the scenes work. The language may be a tad stilted but it also is designed to be a thirties movie rendition. br / br /Seems that somewhere towards the end of the last war a brilliant scientist with a vision disappeared and the whole Group 11 project was disbanded. Today top scientists are going missing and it is up to Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) reporter-photographer to find the reason. Mean while it looks as though a destructive minus is ravaging the city (looking for something) and the only person capable of foiling the evil plot is, you guessed it, Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan (Jude Law, of "GATTACA" fame). br / br /Eventually Joe runs out of gas and only Franky (Angelina Jolie) can save him if there is time. Meanwhile Polly finds that her camera has only two shots left; can she make the best of them? br / br /How can this daring duo and their pals foil the nefarious plot that may prove fatal to the world as we know it? br / br / br /
 besides the movie... March 24, 2006
michael (calgary, Alberta Canada)
usually a special feature consists of a few intermittent seconds of interview dispersed between scenes of the movie you have already watched, or more annoying-about to watch. not sky captain. Sky captain includes a documentary behind the scenes look at production at every stage. i got the feel of the enormity of the work done on this movie, and a feel of what it might have been like if i were a part of sky captain's production team. i watched the special feature first, and appreciated the main feature much more.
 Sky Captain succeeds at what it wants to do. February 12, 2005
Alex Boyd (Toronto, Ontario Canada)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I can't really understand anyone seeing a film with a title like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and complaining it didn't have enough depth. After all, it isn't as though the old Flash Gordon serials, or whatever else inspired this, had deep philosophical discussions and incredibly subtle characters. pConsidering the ponderous and detailed effort that went into this film (the actors worked with blue screens, and almost literally everything else is special effects) it's amazing that it's also light on its feet enough to include humour and not take itself too seriously. Even the main villain is generated from images of Sir Laurence Olivier (dead since 1989, raising mildly troubling ethical questions). And it all done on a lower budget than you'd expect, though if the film has one major flaw it's probably a bit too much going on, so that eye has too much to take in. Just because you can animate three hundred enemy ships doesn't actually mean you should. Jude Law and Gywneth Paltrow are well cast because they look as though they could belong to the late thirties when the film appears to be set. pRoger Ebert talks about the "gee-whiz vigor" old serial adventures had, a "naive faith in science and pluck," and that's certainly to be found in Sky Captain. Sure, it's a little incongruous to see 1938 fighter planes going up against giant robots. And in a film where the characters say the "First World War" when the second one hasn't happened yet (they'd be saying the "Great War" probably) it's far too easy to get into nitpicking and miss the point. And the point, by the way, is the sheer fun of it. I fell for this film the moment I realised the giant robot beams had the same sound effect that was used in the 1953 War of the Worlds.
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