MeBDev

In my opinion, "Sky Captain" was loaded with a lot of action and adventure and bits of mystery and romance, but there wasn't enough of it to be fulfilling. I left the theater still wanting more--more explosions, more mystery, more explanations to things. There was too much left unexplained for me by the end of the movie.

Furthermore, while I appreciated the style of the movie and the way in which the shots were put together, everything looked a little *too* fake for my tastes. So much CGI, but none of it even *tried* to look real. As a movie-goer, that bothered me. In this weird, anachronistic blend of futurism and pre-war Americana, there wasn't enough that looked real for me to latch onto, and so I felt alienated for most of the movie, unwilling and unable to immerse myself in the world. By such detachment, I lost interest easily and didn't enjoy myself very much.

On the whole, I'm glad that I saw it, but I'm more glad that I saw it on a discount movie night. Somehow, just as it blends the sentimental past with the technological surrealism of the future, the movie went too far without going far enough.

This movie is simply amazing. It takes a rather simple premise and turns it into an hysterical movie without much effort. The casting choices were dead-on: Bette Midler as a controlling, hateful woman that even the viewer wants to see dead; Casey Affleck, with his baby face, as one of the prime suspects; Danny DeVito as the head cop in a backwoods, boring town in rural New York where nothing criminal ever happens. There were comic subtleties and clever visual jokes throughout the movie. It's an intelligent comedy, and although it sometimes relies on mildly juvenile jokes, its bizarreness on the whole does not disappoint the viewer. That's the word for it: bizarre. But it's a brilliant kind of bizarreness, absolutely brilliant.