There is an excuse for children embracing this lousy sci fi extended commercial for “Tomorrowland” with a platitudinous feel good message, “the dreamers will save the world”. But after you say that, this draggy mess of a movie staggers and sleeps through two hours before losing any sense of meaning and coming to an end, should be shunned by anybody over twelve.
From an awful definition of exposition filled intro, which fails to really explain what’s going, we are told young Frank the inventor is chosen to join the greatest minds of the world by Athena (Raffey Cassidy) an eleven year old robot in an alternate dimension known as Tomorrowland, headed by supercilious Hugh Laurie as David Nix (get it? Sure you do, he’s the villain). Years later dreamer teen Casey (Brittany Robertson), her pop a NASA engineer about to be sent out to pasture (how is that for sci-fi… I mean, really. Let me help, call BOEING) is chosen to lead the fight to save the world (ours, not theirs) in 58 days.
George Clooney, never remotely close to this bad in about the last 20 years, plays the now old Frank who is needed to, you know, save the world.
The movie, by David Bird so good with the cartoon “The Incredibles” has made a beautiful headache, a high octave mess with bad action sequences and great looks. None of it makes the slightest bit of sense, all of it is Disney pretty nonsense, the acting is bad, really really bad, three people wrote the script and if any of them can make sense of the story they chose not to share it. Why is the world gonna blow up in 58 days? Something to do with people not caring but why would that mean the… ah screw it, it isn’t worth the effort.
Grade: C-