Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Mad Scientists, Kidnapping, Betrayal, Robots, Love Triangle, Period Piece, Investigation, Futuristic, Murder
Tagline: Join the Resistance
Plot: Flying high above New York City is the Hindenburg III, a behemoth airship, docking atop the Empire State Building, the world's tallest port-of-call. Storm clouds rumble as snow blankets the city and startling news fills the screen: Famous scientists around the world are mysteriously disappearing. When deadly gargantuan robots trample the city streets, flinging cars and crushing buildings in their wake, on the investigation is Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), who enlists the help of her old flame, Captain H. Joseph Sullivan (Jude Law) -- aka Sky Captain -- an ace aviator with daredevil flying skills.Traveling to the Himalayan Alps, where they're trapped in an enormous ice cave wired with explosives, and to the tranquil valley of Shangri-la, Polly and Sky Captain battle terrifying flying robots, make an incredible mid-air landing on a mobile airstrip thousands of feet in the sky, and experience the wonder of underwater flight as they search for Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind behind a plot to destroy the world. Will these two determined souls find the elusive Totenkopf in time? With the help of the courageous captain of an all-female amphibious squadron, Franky Cook (Angelina Jolie), and technical genius Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), Polly Perkins and Sky Captain
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 The whole package, a labor of love for the director, offers a lot to every viewer who takes a chance on a movie with such a kitschy title.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
This nostalgically futuristic fantasy has Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and extremely impressive digitally rendered scenery, but, alas, no heart.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
The plotting never develops past the point of trying to find this mysterious Totenkopf and so it just feels bland and overly familiar. C---Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
The performances by Paltrow and Law are remarkably understated and the talented cast often comes across as bland. C--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)
The focus is almost entirely on the bells and whistles, and yet the results burst with old-fashioned innocence, channeling the essence of Buster Crabbe and the rest of his Republic serial ilk. It's been a long time since anyone really understood what that was all about. B+--Rob Vaux (Flipsidemovies.com)
First, let’s take the marketing hype down a notch. ‘Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow’ advertises itself as the next evolution of motion pictures. Wow, heady stuff. ‘Sky Captain’s’ biggest novelty is that most if not all the sets were CGI-generated.  --Harrison Cheung (Movie-Gurus.com)
Sometimes there are those movies that tread the line between the mundane and the sublime so fully, I will keep going back and forth on my feelings about it on a daily basis. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a prime example of such a film. --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
An average film that could have been much better with just a little more time in the hangar.  --Gareth Von Kallenbach (MovieWeb)
What we have here is B material with a budget and a makeover, and the finished product is simply remarkable.  --Dodd Alley (MovieWeb)
This is a wonderful movie from a visual standpoint. Too bad it's not wonderful from any other standpoint...  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
The most amazing thing about SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW is that the art direction isn't the end of the story. Using sets created digitally and added to footage of actors emoting in front of a blue screen, writer/director Kerry Conran has fashioned an eye-popping roller coaster of a film that is a glorious evocation a golden age of filmmaking that should have been. --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
“Sky Captain” has many delights, however, and there are moments when you’ll feel the kind of giddy pleasure that every great cheesy movie inspires. It isn’t anything more or less than that, but sometimes, that’s enough. --Loey Lockerby (eFilmCritic.com)
While it's nowhere near as disastrous as something like VAN HELSING, it's not nearly as engaging as a film like the fifteen year old (and still far superior) THE ROCKETEER. Although worth a once-over by the curious, the visually intriguing WORLD OF TOMORROW will likely be all but forgotten by next week. --Brian McKay (eFilmCritic.com)
Visually, you've never seen a movie like "Sky Captain". But one could pretty much say the same thing about "Van Helsing" - and that movie sucked raw eggs. The key lies in the heart, the passion and the sincerity that runs rampant through "Sky Captain"s every sequence.  --Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
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 | Jude Law
Artificial Intelligence: AI, Road to Perdition, The Aviator |
 | Giovanni Ribisi
Saving Private Ryan, Lost in Translation, Gone in Sixty Seconds |
 | Michael Gambon
Sleepy Hollow, The Insider, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou |
 | Ling Bai
The Crow, Wild Wild West, Anna and the King |
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 | Angelina Jolie
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Gone in Sixty Seconds, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
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| In the end, Sky Captain is just forgettable fluff, but better light than leaden. --Robert Flaxman (eFilmCritic.com)
The applause rule alone would get Sky Captain a perfect rating, but that's just the point when everyone in the audience expressed their joy. I had a foolish grin on my face for the entire hundred-five minute running time, and not just because I love the comics, pulp sci-fi, and movies that the Conrans borrow from so liberally. Sky Captain doesn't just borrow; it knows what makes a fun movie and delivers it in its purest form. --Jay Seaver (eFilmCritic.com)
Much has been made of Conran's developing the heretofore nonexistent technology that enabled him to shoot his actors exclusively against a blue screen and create the sets later via CGI, and for this he should be lauded. For in creating the technology for“Sky Captain” and employing it so cosummately in context, Kerry Conrad has, perhaps, created a world of tomorrow for the industry itself. One as we’ve thus far only imagined it might be. --Tom Ciorciari (eFilmCritic.com)
I wish I were 70 years old, so I could say that "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" reminds me of the many Saturdays of my youth that I spent down at the cinema, paying a nickel to watch Dick Tracy movies all day, and how afterward I'd stop at the drug store for a strawberry phosphate and some horehound candy. B+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
The pastel world of Kerry Conran's "Spy Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is like nothing you've ever seen in a movie, and for a while, at least, you're afraid to blink for fear of missing something.  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Ambitious. Epic. Big. Loud. Computerized. Fantasy. Fun. Adventurous. These words and many others flashed through my mind as the rapid-fire delivery of writer/director Kerry Conran's first motion picture production set sail before my wanting eyes... 8/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
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