I came to see the awesome world of tomorrlamd, and we see about 10 minutes of in its full glory. Just disappointing.
That was the message of the movie. If we don't change our destructive ways in the present there would be no Tomorrowland, or it would be bleak. Only when there was a chance we wouldn't self destruct (and they started the recruiting effort again) did the possibility of a bright Tomorrowland return.
The Negs:
2. The "we need to have a bad guy" schtick. How about some external threat that everyone unites to save TL from. Why did we need a Mob boss type antagonist?
7. Why the heck didn't Disney Tomorrowland area house the entrance to the transportation shuttle? Its a small world? Huh? Why not Space Mountain?
I understand all of the reasons they used the world's fair and it's a small world. I'm very familiar with the actual Disney presence at the actual fair. I would have preferred an entirely different plot device around getting him into TL that used a Disney park as the launch point. For me it would have been a better fit and it would have resonated better with audiences. There are certainly more people alive that have been to Disney than the 60 ' world's fair.
I saw this at a drive-in with speakers from 1956 that you hang off your window. They also broadcast for the car radio too. Kids were running all over, and sitting in lawn chairs near the screen and such. It fit the theme of the film really well.
I enjoyed it a whole lot. It was very preachy I felt, and I don't agree with the message they were preaching, but it didn't detract from my enjoyment. I was raised when PG adventures were in theaters every week, so it really was like going back in time.
I was a bit disappointed with not much Tomorrowland being shown too, and I also felt like The Eiffel Tower was an odd choice. Mind you, I'm a bit of a Tesla fanboy, so I thought the inclusion of his "myth" into the film was pretty darn cool. But it really seemed like they should have went to the Tomorrowland park, and crossed from there. It would have been an excellent way to give that park another level of cool.
But it's certainly going to be added to the home video collection and watched many times.
I just saw it last night and I've got to say, I kind of liked it. (It helped that I didn't do any research on the movie before-hand, and went in with SUPER low expectations.) I thought that the action (and the story) was very good, and the CGI effects were excellent. Like Jeyl made reference to before, it was kind of nice to see a good ol' fashioned "PG" Sci-Fi/Action film for the whole family. It kind of harkened back to something from the '80's for me. I would definitely recommend it. It was a very entertaining movie as far as I'm concerned.
..but it seems like they never really get around to it. The first hour and a half of the film is spent on earth trying to get there...then once we arrive there, it's a deserted wasteland with no explanation of why it is the way it is. Lots of things are hinted at, and I feel like nothing was very well explained.