Take a very pretty cast, the plot of a 30 minute cartoon adventure, lots of crazy action with no clear connection, stylistically fantastic designs, a far too limited color palette, and too much Vaseline on the camera lens. And what do you get, a fantastic action adventure short. Now stretch it out to nearly two hours, and you'd get Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and Bai Ling were all very pretty, and with the exception of Bai Ling who I haven't seen in a movie before, I know they are competent actors. Their acting abilities are wasted on this film however as no character is thicker than soggy single ply toilet tissue. I would have happily given up just a bit of the action sequences to learn why Dr. Totenkopf was driven to destroy the world, or what the deal between Joe, Polly, and Franky was.
Instead, as the credits rolled, I felt like I'd seen the longest trailer to what could be a really great movie, especially if the camera man would take the time to clean some of the grease off the lens before shooting.
Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, and Bai Ling were all very pretty, and with the exception of Bai Ling who I haven't seen in a movie before, I know they are competent actors. Their acting abilities are wasted on this film however as no character is thicker than soggy single ply toilet tissue. I would have happily given up just a bit of the action sequences to learn why Dr. Totenkopf was driven to destroy the world, or what the deal between Joe, Polly, and Franky was.
Instead, as the credits rolled, I felt like I'd seen the longest trailer to what could be a really great movie, especially if the camera man would take the time to clean some of the grease off the lens before shooting.
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