Tomorrowland

 

Tomorrowland 2015

• Director: Brad Bird
• Based on book: no
• Cast: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Thomas Robinson
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• George Clooney – Hail Caesar, Gravity, The Descendants, Burn After Reading, Michael Clayton, Good Night and Good Luck, Intolerable Cruelty, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Solaris, The Perfect Storm, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Thin Red Line, Friends
• Britt Robertson – The Space Between Us, Cake, Dan in Real Life
• Hugh Laurie – The Night Manager, Sense and Sensibility, Jeeves and Wooster, Peter’s Friends, Black Adder
• Raffey Cassidy – Dark Shadows
• Why? Hugh Laurie
• Seen: 4 December 2020      

       Sometimes you’ve got to take chances. Hugh Laurie is good. George Clooney can be. Maybe this is better than it looks.

       The future is scary, but when Frank (Clooney) was a kid it was cheery, ‘just a dream away.’ Young Frank (Robinson) invented a rocket pack, but it didn’t quite work so Governor Nix (Laurie) at the Invention Fair turned him down. The girl Athena (Cassidy) was, however, most impressed, and leads him into a very high-tech city in the future. But, adult Frank tells us, everything went wrong.

       Casey (Robertson) disapproves of Frank’s pessimism and tells her own version. She’s a science genius and longs to travel to the stars.

       It’s a kids’ film and the first half hour is a bit shaky but then it’s fun and I find myself liking it a lot. The cast is great, and the story is entertaining. It’s a bit preachy but the message is a good one, the kind of message I try to spread.

       It’s on us. And we can choose to do it. 

 3 ½ * of 5 (Hal is underwhelmed and gives it 2*.)