Disney’s Tomorrowland Stars George Clooney is a delightful adventure mystery

In Disney’s riveting mystery adventure “Tomorrowland,” a jaded scientist (Academy Award® winner George Clooney) and an optimistic teen (Britt Robertson) embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space.

When I read the pedigree of the creators of the movie, I will admit that had certain expectations. Tomorrowland,” features a screenplay by “Lost” writer and co-creator Damon Lindelof  and is directed by two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird.

Take note that my review contains spoilers.

And thank goodness because it really doesn’t start off well. The movie begins with Frank Baker (George Clooney), a disillusioned scientist  and Casey Newton (Britt Robertson), who lives with her father, a laid off NASA engineer (Tim McGraw) and her little brother (Pierce Gagnon) bickering over how the story begins. This was boring and annoying but luckily it finally moved on to having Frank tell his story about going to the World’s Fair in Queens, New York. I loved this part of the story because the younger Frank played by Thomas Robinson is adorable plus how the scenes were filmed showing the World’s Fair in beautiful Disney glory.

Just as you think the movie is going to be a cute story about how Casey finds Tomorrowland, it takes a turn into a thrill ride of nonstop adventures that involves the two main characters. I was certainly not expecting a mystery action picture but that is what Tomorrowland turns into which I thought was engaging and kept me interested in what happens to the characters.

I love that George Clooney plays the former boy-genius who when Casey finds him  is holed up in a house in the middle of nowhere.  But his  shared destiny with a teen who is his polar opposite continues propelling the movie to it’s conclusion.

 

I would definitely recommend this mystery, action picture that is indeed a sci-fi movie for older tweens. For younger kids, the storyline will be confusing. My only comment that would have made the movie better and what is missing from the movie is that it really spends very little time in Tomorrowland. Yes, we do get glimpses of it in flashbacks but not enough. Also there is no context of the David Nix character, how did go from the benign character at the beginning of the movie to a villain. Also I felt that the end was rushed as though the Director ran of out time. The movie is 2 hours long but I have a feeling they wanted to add more but couldn’t. I bet the Director’s cut for this movie would fill in a lot of gaps I had.

 

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 TOMORROWLAND opens in theaters everywhere on May 22nd!

Disclosure: NYC Single Mom attended the Tomorrowland screening to facilitate this review.