SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW
D: Kerry Conran (2004) ¢ ¢ ¢
Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie,
Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Bai Ling
Retro-futuristic action adventure starring Jude Law as a daredevil pilot and Gwyneth Paltrow as a go-for-broke journalist who reluctantly team up to save the world. A throwback to the B-movie serials of the 1930s (with an explicit reference to Captain Marvel), this hasn't got the zip of the Indiana Jones movies, which both celebrated and transcended the same source material. The time frame is a little fuzzy. A theater marquee showing "King's Row" makes the year 1942, but then what's a German blimp doing docked off the Empire State Building? On the other hand, it looks real good, with its muted sepia tones and digitized art-deco sets, and there's enough combative chemistry between Law and Paltrow to make you wonder how good they could be in an all-out screwball comedy. "Bringing Up Baby In the World of Tomorrow"?
