Synopsis
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.
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Cast
- Jude LawSky Captain
- Gwyneth PaltrowPolly Perkins
- Angelina JolieFranky
- Giovanni RibisiDex
- Michael GambonPaley
- Bai LingMysterious Woman
- Omid DjaliliKaji
- Laurence OlivierDr. Totenkopf (archive footage)
- Trevor BaxterDr Walter Jennings
- Julian CurryDr. Vargas
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty. - 90
The A.V. Club
As an imaginative visual experience, there's nothing like it. Today, at least. - 88
Premiere
Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a pastiche of everything from "King Kong" to "The Wizard of Oz," a movie that escalates to a breathless cliff-hanger every 20 minutes or so and reinvents itself with every reel. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
The film's save-the-world scenario may be the stuff of crusty cliff-hangers, its imagery may be borrowed, and its jaunty dialogue anything but deep, but there's something exhilarating going on here. It's darn sublime. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Other than the actors, their costumes, and a few props, everything in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is digital illusion, and the effects are often exhilarating. - 70
Variety
Arresting at first but gradually trails off under the weight of its hyper-derivativeness and anxiety to please. - 70
Dallas Observer
The filmmakers' investment in their weird visions is wildly unorthodox, but the payoff is oddly satisfying. - 70
The New York Times
Too fixated on 1939 for its own good. Its passionate immersion in a past that only dimly resonates with younger audiences may be a badge of its integrity, but that immersion trumps its vision of the future and leaves us in a land of nostalgia.
