Tomorrowland (2015)

	Also Known As: A World Beyond
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol)
	Actors: George Clooney (Burn after Reading, O'Brother Where Art Thou?), Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie (House M.D. TV-series)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 21.05.2015, Mathaeser Kino.
Synopsis: Casey (Robertson) is a clever teenage girl taking after her father, engineer at NASA. She will be selected by a little girl Athena who will show her an imaginary world and push her to meet Frank (Clooney).
Review: I was expecting a lot from the director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille after his successful first live-action movie Mission Impossible 4, maybe too much. The story in Tomorrowland is rather original and the special effects very good-looking and blending with the live action. The relationship between the character of Georges Clooney and the two girls is interesting and well-written, and the actors good (quality brought forward by the use of many close-ups). The first part of the movie is about the Future how it was imagined in the 60's while the second half is more about how we imagine it now, and this leads to a reflection on a topic which is quite actual. But I found that there was too much of a Disney influence on the movie: children or teenagers for the audience to identify with, cast-out characters that will turn out to be special (like every kids dreams to be), family, happy ending of course (no spoiler in saying that). There was just missing a cute talking animal. And as a friend pointed out, there is not a single scene in which the characters eat (only once they drink Coca Cola), which is quite disturbing when coming back from the Far East Film Festival and having seen fourteen movies out of which thirteen include lengthy meal-time scenes. This ascertainment illustrates the gap between popular (Asian) cinema and blockbuster (American) one.
Rating: 6 /10