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WALT DISNEY created Tomorrowland in 1955 when our colonial cousins imagined an optimistic future.
What the long-dead Disney would think of co-writer/director Brad Bird’s magic-laden family adventure is tough to figure out though.
Superb special effects, vivid visuals of future worlds and stunning set pieces like the Eiffel Tower dividing into two and launching a long-buried spaceship, can’t fail to thrill and excite fantasy-prone kids.
Visually, it’s an unmissable treat but the story is considerably less compelling.
Stubble-faced George Clooney plays a jaded former boy genius Frank Walker — rather better played as a youngster by Thomas Robinson — and teenager Britt Robinson as Casey Newton boldly go where the script takes them.
It’s an incident-heavy, logic-light mission in time and space to change the world forever.
Youngsters will savour the action and spectacle and probably ignore the storyline.
Accompanying adults should pay attention. They’ll have to try and explain the story to their kids, after all.
Good luck to them.
