by Roger Bourke White Jr., copyright May 2015
Tomorrowland is a science fiction movie with inventive visual effects and good looking actors and actresses, but the story is confusing and inconsistent.
This is a story about Frank Walker and Casey, two hot human thinkers separated by a few decades, getting recruited by human-looking Athena to go to Tomorrowland. Tomorrowland is a place in another dimension and it is futuristic and idyllic. The rub is that the ruler of Tomorrowland, David Nix, has a dim view of happenings on Earth, and it turns out his dim view can affect Earth's destiny. Frank, Casey and Athena have to fix that.
This story doesn't make a lot of sense, and it is filled with inconsistencies. But there is a lot of inventiveness and imagination in what is shown when a person is existing between the Earth and Tomorrowland dimensions. That part of the movie is fun to watch.
The "smash and crash" is mild -- the opposite of Mad Max: Fury Road which is showing now too. Instead there is a lot of effort spent on showing scenes of a futuristic, idyllic city landscape, and these scenes work well.
The beginning is confusing, the middle is fun to watch, the end makes little sense. Overall, it is yet another distopia-centering-on-teenagers movie, but an inventive one. If you're into those, this one is just fine.
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