Day 1: Tomorrowland Movie Review

Disney’s Tomorrowland

Review by Meghana L.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Tomorrowland is a long-waited, action-packed adventure movie. The expectations for this movie have been pretty high throughout Disney’s fanbase. The trailers and different promotional media have even got some people who don’t normally enjoy Disney movies, very excited. Though it was much hyped, Tomorrowland mostly lived up to the expectations set for it, with its original plot and decent acting.

The movie is about a group of people who all have something to do with a place called Tomorrowland. Tomorrowland is a place where all the artists, scientists, inventors, and all the greatest thinkers of the world decided to actually change it. Tomorrowland is in a different dimension than our own world, where people are free to build, invent, and do anything they want to without other complications like the government, or endangering the lives of the civilian population. There is Frank Walker (George Clooney) who discovered Tomorrowland at the 1964 World’s Fair at ten years old when a recruiting robot, Athena (Raffey Cassidy) gives him a pin to enter Tomorrowland. Athena and Frank both get kicked out of the place because Frank built something dangerous. Casey (Brittany Robertson) is a young scientist and dreamer from Cape Canaveral who gets arrested, and finds a Tomorrowland pin with her stuff. When she touches the pin it takes her to a place filled with jet-packs and hope. Little does she know that the pin was given to her by Athena who thinks that Casey might be able to reverse the contraption predicting the end of the world. After a freak explosion and hijacking a few cars, the trio returns to Tomorrowland to reverse the damage that was caused by Governor David Nix (Hugh Laurie).

Tomorrowland was overall a fun and exciting movie, though it got confusing at times. Everyone’s acting was believable, and screenwriters Damon Lindoff and Brad Bird (also the director) made everyone’s dialogue run smoothly, without making it too dramatic. It has a lighthearted, kid-friendly feel to it. When you look at it from the big picture, the plot is easy to follow, and keeps all ages interested. The plot, which was original and well put together, was a bit confusing at times. For example, were all the people in Tomorrowland robots, so they never aged? And how exactly did they get to Tomorrowland? Is inter-dimensional travel really that easy? The list goes on and on. But if you ignore the questions you have about the details, this movie is not hard to enjoy. You can compare this movie to a number of dystopian films such as Divergent and the Legend series. But this picture has something the other films and books lack. It doesn’t follow the overdone cliché about defeating the government through some heavily planned rebellion, but rather says that for positive things to happen, one must have a positive way of thinking.

An original and inspiring movie, Disney’s Tomorrowland lived up to the expectations set for it. Director Brad Bird helped capture an essence of hope we all still have for the human race, and gave us enough inspiration to make us want to do something to help it. Tomorrowland may not be a perfect movie, but it has a sense of hope and inspiration that make it a beautiful movie.