Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Critic Reviews

In its heedless energy and joy, it reminded me of how I felt the first time I saw "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way.Read the full review

Sky Captain is a gorgeous, funny, and welcome novelty.Read the full review

As an imaginative visual experience, there's nothing like it. Today, at least.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

No one has really been asking for a fusion of "Independence Day," Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," and an old Buck Rogers serial, but here it is anyway, and the only thing keeping it from greatness is a good story.Read the full review

70% style and 30% substance. It has a plot and characters, but those are almost beside the point.Read the full review

Arresting at first but gradually trails off under the weight of its hyper-derivativeness and anxiety to please.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

The movie is like one of those newfangled Vegas casinos, where what appears to be open sky is really painted ceiling. What's initially dazzling becomes stifling.Read the full review