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		List Price: $29.99		Label: Paramount Home Entertainment Salesrank: 6438 Released: July 25, 2006
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: HD DVD

Editorial Review:
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

Description of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [HD DVD]:
While setting a milestone in the progress of digital filmmaking, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow resurrects a nostalgic fantasy world derived from a wide variety of vintage inspirations. It's a dazzling dream for anyone who appreciates the look and feel of golden-age sci-fi pulp magazines, drawing its unique, all-digital design from such diverse sources as Howard Hawks adventures, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, Blackhawk comics, The Third Man, cliffhanger serials, and the action-packed Indiana Jones franchise. Writer-director Kerry Conran's feature debut is also guaranteed to inspire digital dreamers everywhere, suggesting a paradigm shift in the way CGI-dominated movies are made. It's a giddy adventure for the young and young-at-heart, in which ace pilot "Sky Captain" Joe Sullivan (Jude Law) and intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) must save the world from a mad scientist whose vision of the future has tragic implications for all humankind. Angelina Jolie drops in for a glorified cameo, but it's the ultra-fortunate neophyte Conran who's the star here. His clever riff on The Wizard of Oz is a marvel to behold, and the method of its creation is nothing less than revolutionary. --Jeff Shannon

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow [HD DVD] Reviews:
Fun enough, but nothing more
2008-08-31 - Sci-fi adventure movie set in an alternative 1939. When giant robots appear out of nowhere and start attacking various nations around the world, plundering their gas, oil and other natural resources, the whole world is mystified as to where they come from and who is behind them. It is up to hero and elite fighter pilot Sky Captain (played by Jude Law) to get to the bottom of this mystery and identify whoever is behind these attacks, as well as their motives, and to bring them to justice. Sky Captain sets off on this mission accompanied by ruthless reporter and former love interest Polly Perkins (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) - who he can't stand. But they must learn to get along and work together if they are to survive the dangers that they will face in their perilous quest. An okay sci-fi film, with very good special effects - the last half an hour is especially good - and an interesting black and white look which is a nod to the comic book serials of the 1930s but which suffers from a plot that is just too basic and a daft premise in which the whole world looks up to a man called Sky Captain to protect them from the forces of evil whose claim to fame is that he can fly a plane (he has no special abilities and can't even fight particularly well). Fun enough, but nothing more. (Note: this film also features Angelina Jolie as a military commander.)



Suspend belief & just have fun!
2008-08-26 - Above average comic book movie. Story was silly but so were most of the movies made in the 30s. This was along the line of the ole Buck Rogers fantacies but with the benefit of state of the art special effects.

The delivery of High Def via Blu-ray was beyond excellent!

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Sky Captain......
2008-08-10 - Good special effects, a little hard to get into. I'll watch it again before I finalize an opinion.

BIG movie!! Lots of extras!!!
2008-08-09 - Good "homage' to the Sci/Fi movies of the 50's... "Must have" for the serious Sci/Fi movie fan!!!

A Classic
2008-07-23 - For amusement consider the previous reviews of this "near perfect" classic. One reviewer has done his home work....the other sadly, not!! Our cultural history is determined by COOL TYPES...whose memory includes the last thirty or less years and then a complete BLANK!!! "Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang!!" Whaaattt? How about the Max Fleischer Superman cartoons???? Captain Midnight and Icabod Mudd (With TWO D's)!!!? Ivan Shark and his daughter Fury?? Buck Rogers?? Airboy and Birdie???!!! The Blackhawks? The Flying Tigers???? Contrary to the impression of the actor in the Purple Rose of Cairo...our personal memories do not become the Script of the Whole World!!! There is something called Research to Fill in the Blank!!! The film had nothing to do with Jurassic Park (only in the restricted mind does the mention of DNA automatically suggest Jurassic Park.) or Star Wars or anything of the type!!! The film only departed from Classic Status by the banter of the actors designed to make certain the audience knew, "We're not taking this too seriously" (When you are cool, "The World Bores You!!")...destracting the audience from the action and the heroic pursuit of a goal, as Bugs Bunny would say, "Without expectation of recompense neither!!!" Gad! And, I might add, "Popular music did not begin with the Beatles" (in case anyone was wondering...). The film pays homage to the Great Heroes of the 1930's, 40's, and before!!! Did I mention Doc. Savage??? Beyond this, the film is replete with references to lovingly remembered (by us) and vacuously ignored (by them) icons of the earlier Golden Age of Adventure...where there were HEROES (no tongue in cheek, no excuses...just Heroes). In this time of Civilizational Malaise...might we need a HERO or two??