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metromix.chicagotribune.com - : Chicago Tribune - Also, and this was the biggest surprise, Law and Paltrow are funny. As their characters bicker and banter through robot attacks and dynamite explosions, the ridiculously handsome duo boasts real chemistry and sexual tension. more...
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www.suntimes.com - : Chicago Sun-Times - ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'' is even more fun than it sounds like. In its heedless energy and joy, it reminded me of how I felt the first time I saw ''Raiders of the Lost Ark.'' It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way. more...
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www.boston.com - : Boston Globe - So you're left with the look of the film, which is mesmerizing. Apparently lit for black and white then digitally colorized, ''Sky Captain'' glows with the curved chrome optimism of pre-war design and attitudes. The film's sci-fi elements come out of the 1939 World's Fair -- the robots that attack Dex have the squiggly tentacles of the aliens in ''The War of the Worlds'' -- and elsewhere Conran recombines the DNA of so many old movies that Turner Classic aficionados may go into seizures. There's a side trip to the Shangri-La of ''Lost Horizon,'' for instance (with backgrounds out of a Maxfield Parrish painting), and, delightfully, a visit to Kong Island, complete with dinosaurs. They call it something else, but trust me, it's Kong Island. more...
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