Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Jul 23, 2020 2/5

The oh-so-virtual reality of it all is purely mindless.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dec 28, 2010 4/5

Lots for both kids and adults to enjoy.

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Jay Antani Cinema Writer Sep 3, 2010 3/4

he visuals are phenomenal, rendered with so much love and passion that each frame is a marvel just to behold.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009

It's innocent, wholesome fun with a lot of brains to it that kids and adults will love...

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 18, 2009 C-

"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow" is a war movie without subtext. Its deliberate lack of moral coding and pandering effort to please audiences with a vintage cotton candy pulp that never was is more than a little insulting. At least it has Angelina

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Steve Biodrowski Cinefantastique Apr 17, 2009

What made anyone believe this was a movie worth making or that there would be an audience for it?

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Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Oct 18, 2008

Filled with style with a capital S, Sky Captain is a joyous combo of rollicking adventure, film noir and all the gee-whizzery of high-tech innovation.

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Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review Aug 7, 2008 4/5

Pure escapism saturates every frame of this exhilarating throwback to 1930s matinee serials.

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Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Oct 31, 2007 D

If there's any sensibility within the film other than a voracious geeky adoration of cliffhangers, I wasn't able to locate it.

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Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Jul 14, 2007 2.5/4

It's obvious even from the character names that Mr. Conran has a good grasp on his source material. The problem is, he doesn't do anything with it.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Jun 8, 2007

This debut feature by Kerry Conran is a triumph not only for its technical mastery but for its good taste.

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Prairie Miller Long Island Press Mar 31, 2007

It's the story that gets in the wayof this magic show, coasting along a much more awkward path that finally hardly seems to matter.

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Todd Hertz Christianity Today Oct 11, 2006 3.5/4

Director Kerry Conran hasn't just mimicked his favorite serials and comic books. He's written a love letter to the full scope of 1930s and '40s films by basically making one.

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William Thomas Empire Magazine Apr 1, 2006 2/5

For its writer-director, Sky Captain was a labour of love. For almost everyone else -- including the wooden cast -- it's just a labour.

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Wally Hammond Time Out Feb 9, 2006

The clincher is how the actors are reduced to puppets and ciphers; Paltrow straight-jacketed in her Hildy Johnson-style two-piece and the evidently bored Law reduced throughout half the movie to giving the gimlet eye through flying goggles.

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Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Jan 17, 2006

It should feel like Star Wars, yet it fails to feel like a movie at all. Conran has done his work almost too well. It's as if you're sitting in front of an outsize comic book with a speed reader as page-turner.

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Pete Vonder Haar Film Threat Dec 6, 2005 3.5/5

Occasionally threatens to collapse under the weight of its own production, but all in all it's an exhilarating experience, and raises the bar for the use of digital technology in film.

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Uri Lessing www.kcactive.com Jul 25, 2005 4/5

...takes the audience to the Shangra La of Lost Horizons, the undersea world of... 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and straight to King Kong's Skull Island.

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Dragan Antulov Draxblog Movie Reviews Jun 26, 2005 7/10

delightfully anachronistic piece of digital mastery

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Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness May 4, 2005

The epitome of CGI's best and worst attributes.

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