Review of Tomorrowland (2015) by Joe I — 14 Nov 2015

This movie is kind of hard to explain, which is not what I was expecting when I put it on. This is a movie you have to be in the right mindset to enjoy in my opinion. There are the usual targets that can be used to discredit this movie.

If you are not a fan of George Clooney or Disney, those are the two easy ones. The pacing of this thing is what really threw me off. The story shown seems to have a problem at times with rushing through things that could develop character or background and taking too long to explain something that overall could of been moved along better.

That is not to say this movie still isn't a lot of fun. It comes off in the actors, especially the child actors. The direction of Brad Bird, who most knowingly has been successful in animation with his work on The Simpsons and The Incredibles, shows pure imagination in many of the visuals and a few of the ideas of futuristic technology.

I guess if you have to have a defining factor in deciding if you are going to enjoy this film is the moral. The moral is very sappy. If you factor in however the age range the target audience is mainly focused on and the times that we live in, this movie works as something that can be fun in the purest sense of the word and also make you think in ways that can open a mind the right way.