Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow [20]

"Everything changes this Friday!" says the headline.

Famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) are on the investigation. Risking their lives as they travel to exotic places around world, can the fearless duo stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the earth? Aided by Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly and Sky Captain may be our planet's only hope.

This is a guy flick all the way. Women bad, Men Good (but Gwyneth Paltrow can be as bad as she wants in my book). Jude Law plays Sky Captain. Gwyneth is Polly Perkins. (I wonder if she hangs out with Peter Parker?) Dr. "deadhead" Totenkopf is played by none other than Sir Laurence Olivier; using archive footage since he has been dead since 1987.

The effects and props seem to give it the "What if the future looked like we imagined it would back in the late 1930's?" We have World War II fighters and dirigibles fighting pulp comic robots and spaceships. I look forward to seeing this movie and getting Film Noir and Pulp Science fiction all in one sitting. {BB}

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Added: September 15th 2004
Reviewer: BB
29 Point Scale Score:    [20]

Related Movie Link (IMDB): IMDB
Hits: 1977
Language: english