I saw Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow tonight. Some critics have been rather hard on this movie. Church of the Masses, for instance, says,
"Inexcusably, Sky Captain has nothing to hold the viewer's brain and emotions once the CGI attractions wear thin. The plot holes in the story are big enough to drop a fifteen story steel robot through. The characters have no arc. No one changes or grows. So, by the usual definition, there's no drama here."
Am I the only person that just had fun watching it? Granted, I'm a computer geek who enjoyed the effects, but after a while I mostly forgot about them and was simply entertained. It's not like I was looking for Casablanca in CGI. It was like a comic book come to life. It wasn't realistic. The character development was shallow. The plot was thread-bare. So what? I think this movie hearkens back to a time when movies were more often simple entertainment than overblown attempts at art or relevance. Lighten up and pass the popcorn.
Funky Dung
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