*** - With cityscapes right out of a 1930s Soviet propaganda poster and awesome-looking robots and ships that were gorgeously animated, one might think that “Sky Captain…” would be right up my alley. And when considering the visual aspects only, one would be very right. However, there were a number of things that kept this movie from being rated better than mediocre. Crappy dialogue and silly, forced-sounding banter between the two leads (Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow) is the main reason, along with a pretty predictable storyline. The extensive use of blue-screen and strange lighting techniques that made the human characters seem to have an odd orangey-yellow hue when prominently featured were also quite distracting. It was watchable, but not as good as I was hoping.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
*** - With cityscapes right out of a 1930s Soviet propaganda poster and awesome-looking robots and ships that were gorgeously animated, one might think that “Sky Captain…” would be right up my alley. And when considering the visual aspects only, one would be very right. However, there were a number of things that kept this movie from being rated better than mediocre. Crappy dialogue and silly, forced-sounding banter between the two leads (Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow) is the main reason, along with a pretty predictable storyline. The extensive use of blue-screen and strange lighting techniques that made the human characters seem to have an odd orangey-yellow hue when prominently featured were also quite distracting. It was watchable, but not as good as I was hoping.
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