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TOMORROWLAND

Joyce and Don Fowler
Posted 5/28/15

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(Preachy, dreamlike Disney sci-fi)

Earth is heading for disaster. War, pestilence, environmental disasters and a mood of complete indifference is prevalent.

Can one spirited teenage …

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See it at the Movies

TOMORROWLAND

Posted

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(Preachy, dreamlike Disney sci-fi)

Earth is heading for disaster. War, pestilence, environmental disasters and a mood of complete indifference is prevalent.

Can one spirited teenage girl turn everything around?

Casey (Britt Robertson) is the perfect candidate. Rebellious and optimistic, she is out to save the NASA space platform where her father (country singer Tim McGraw in a small supporting role) works from being destroyed. Casey is chosen by Athena, a lifelike girl robot (Raffey Cassidy) to save the world and get people to dream again.

Hers is not an easy task. She must convince an ornery man (George Clooney) to reclaim his faith after being discouraged from his attempt to set things right.

The once idyllic Tomorrowland has been reduced to rubble and is under the control of the evil Governor Nix (Hugh Laurie).

Casey is determined to “fix the world” and make things right in spite of the many obstacles put in front of her.

There’s enough action to keep the kids interested, but the younger ones may get a bit confused as the movie jumps from flashbacks to older characters when they were younger to the present and future.

There are good, if overdone, messages about being part of the solution and not part of the problem. Optimism versus pessimism plays out a bit too long (two hours and 10 minutes) with some dull, drawn out moments. There are some good special effects among Disney’s Tomorrowland theme, but the preaching is a bit overdone.

Rated PG, with some violence. Send the kids.

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