‘Tomorrowland’ is an inspiring story

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People can only imagine a world without flaws — Disney has materialized this thought into a theme park called  “Tomorrowland.”

It is one of the many parks at five of Disney theme parks around the world. Each version of the land is different but they depict views of the future.

Walt Disney was known for his futuristic views and through the movies of Disney they show that.

Disney’s new film “Tomorrowland” tells a tale of intelligent, brilliant, curious dreamers who shape the world into a better place.

Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) is a dreamer. Casey is a teenager who is irrepressible and expresses herself through acts of sabotage at the NASA launch platform. She’s motivated not by hostility to the space program — where her dad used to work — but rather by rage that celestial exploration is being abandoned.

Casey wants to stop the dismantling of the facility, where this wonderfully futile gesture marks her as a potential savior of Tomorrowland. And with that, she later meets Athena (Raffey Cassidy).

Athena recruits her for Tomorrowland by giving Casey a pin — the vision of a place called Tomorrowland, a world similar to the futuristic setting of the show, “The Jetsons.”

This vision brings Casey into contact with Frank Walker (George Clooney) who’s basically her opposite. Casey is optimistic and Frank is a medley of sour, grumpy, and sarcastic.

Both share a secret that few know of. A world behind their world, a place of the best and brightest minds of dreamers. And they’ve created a better society, free of angry and bitter disagreement.

Tomorrowland is Director Brad Bird’s energetic new film that shows an imaginative design and smart sequencing of fun and memorable action and adventure set pieces, as well as humorous and unique slower beats in between moments.

The process of adapting the Tomorrowland theme park attraction into an adventure film is smartly handled because it invites the opportunity for a timely and relevant story that offers real themes and heart along with the journey.

Looking at a visual level, Bird mostly kept things tight and relatively grounded and believable when showing advanced technology and inventions in our real world setting, but things got stretched too far into CGI when we are shipped over to the fantastical world of Tomorrowland.

The fabled land does stand for a surprisingly preachy message about the need for optimism and hope in modern times. In 1965, young Frank Walker arrives at the New York World’s Fair with a cool invention. It’s a jetpack made out of an old vacuum cleaner, and while it doesn’t quite fly, Frank figures that his hard work and spirit will impress the judge. Frank was asked what the use of the contraption is and he replied that it’s for fun. Later that day Frank received a pin into Tomorrowland.

If people see that such a thing can exist, they’ll be inspired. They’ll believe in their own capacities, and in the general possibility of good stuff.

Tomorrowland isn’t disappointing and isn’t some piece of franchise mediocrity but rather a work of evident passion and conviction.