Sometimes the goofy dialogue grates on your ears. But those zingers (also thanks to the rapport between the cast) got some big laughs. The script teeters from zingers and cleverness to meaningless platitudes and proclamations of specialness. He’s also in the scene with the terrible hokey “childhood story” trope, where the Mother Goose-given analogy can solve all of our grown-up problems. On the other side, Tim McGraw shows up for some reason and looks so weirdly artificial that you’re almost sure he’s an android. It’s nice to see him have to rediscover his idealism. But seeing him haggard, initially unlikeable, and beaten is always fun. George Clooney can’t be beaten in a competition of charm, this we know. They’re both tons of fun to watch, and their odd couple chemistry is fantastic. Raffey Cassidy (as a precocious child from the future) is just flat-out fantastic, and Britt Robertson’s engineering wiz shows a hell of a lot more spunk and charisma than in The Longest Ride. His droll, pedantic condescension perfectly captures the evils of overbearing paternalism. hopefully the film will start a trend as the first to exploit Hugh Laurie’s sallow dourness as a large-scale villain. Immediately, you can tell our actors are having a blast. Bird back into the Disney family he recently agreed to make a sequel to his 2004 animated hit, “The Incredibles.Tomorrowland’s sometimes preachy spectacle still drops your jaw and inspires the child inside you with its unashamed positivity. Coming up, Pixar’s “Inside Out” is also expected to be a blockbuster. “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” has taken in $1.3 billion worldwide.
The good news: Even if “Tomorrowland” ends up losing a substantial amount of money, Walt Disney Studios has a cushion from its Marvel and Pixar units. Movies that try to take audiences to multiple worlds at once - “Green Lantern,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Tron: Legacy” - are difficult to market. With a complicated structure, the film attempted to embrace the present, the past (the 1960s) and the future. In the end, “Tomorrowland” may have simply been too ambitious. But there is a reason studios continue to churn out dystopian fare: People seem to like it. Bird wanted to offer a more optimistic portrait of the future. While moviegoers have shown a taste for post-apocalyptic movies in recent years, Mr.
“Tomorrowland” was also an attempt by Mr. Abrams are other proponents of the keep-them-guessing strategy.) Bird and his co-writer, Damon Lindelof, strongly believe that marketing materials should not give too much away. Disney did that on purpose, partly because Mr. “Tomorrowland” was also released in 354 Imax theaters, which typically offer a boost because tickets sell for higher prices.įor a start, audiences seemed to be unsure what “Tomorrowland” was about, box-office analysts said. 1 movie, but it only narrowly beat a holdover: “Pitch Perfect 2” (Universal Pictures) will sell an estimated $37.9 million in tickets over the four-day period, for a two-week domestic total of $125.4 million. The only other new wide-release movie was a remake of “Poltergeist” (20th Century Fox), which analysts said on Sunday would take in about $27.7 million, a solid result for a PG-13-rated horror film that cost Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer a modest $35 million to make. The PG-rated “Tomorrowland,” directed by Brad Bird, who was also a writer, notably had the prime Memorial Day period almost entirely to itself. LOS ANGELES - Disney’s big-budget “Tomorrowland” was a relative bust at the domestic box office over the holiday weekend, a result that will likely make Hollywood even more reluctant to invest in original stories.Ĭosting at least $280 million to make and market, “Tomorrowland” will take in about $40.7 million between Friday and Monday, according to box office analysts, or about 20 percent less than anticipated going into the holiday weekend.
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