Review: Brad Bird's Sci-Fi 'Tomorrowland' is Full of Yesterday's Ideas

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For a film about avenues to a better future, Tomorrowland is sure working off a lot of yesterday’s ideas. These are big ideas, to be sure, and they’re ideas the film’s director, Brad Bird, can easily back up with some incredibly big effects. None of that, however, makes up for the banal slate of messages and themes, a hokey sense of humor, and a convoluted narrative that seems to hang its hat on the word “mystery.” Bird’s co-writer on the screenplay may have had a little something to do with that last bit. Tomorrowland, is a classic case of a project looking really good on paper that fumbles its way to messy execution. ›››

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