![]() ![]() The film’s eco-friendly concerns and general tone of messianic optimism are welcome. “Tomorrowland” is really a civics lesson disguised as a summer escape flick. Still, there are compensations: Robertson and Cassidy are spunky and Clooney is amusingly grizzled, and there’s a marvelous set piece where the middle of the Eiffel Tower suddenly turns into a great big rocket shooting into the night sky. This is assuming it exists at all and is not a wish-fulfillment fantasy.Ĭonsidering that Bird comes out of animation, the visuals in this movie are for the most part surprisingly prosaic (like something out of, maybe, “Spy Kids.”) A vision of the resplendent (or not-so-resplendent) future ought to carry more oomph than this. ![]() Back home in the present, she is soon aided by a benevolent pre-teen bot (Raffey Cassidy) and pursued by bot meanies, ending up paired with Frank Walker (George Clooney), an ornery hermit scientist who may hold the key to a return trip to Tomorrowland. Casey becomes the recipient of a mysterious pin with a big “T” emblem, which briefly enables her to enter what appears to be a model city of the future, complete with model people.
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