Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow

Rating: * * (out of 5)
Director: Kerry Conran
Running time: 107 minutes
Language: English
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"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is yet another of those gazillion-dollar event flicks that's 90 percent art design and 9 percent plot, with everything the actors do crammed into that last meager percentile.

Yes, I know there are people who like this, just as there are people who prefer Sony's Aibo to a real dog. But I don't get it. Trust me: You watch enough of these films, and you'll be well on your way to a Ritalin prescription.

1 Actually, some might say that a better solution would be a dose of Ecstasy, which many users say has empathy-inducing effects. If so, it could be just the thing for director Kerry Conran, because, judging from "Sky Captain," the man has a much greater affinity toward robots than human beings. Let's call it "otaku-itis."

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