Hugh Laurie is landed in a role that feels somewhat underwritten, given the focus on the younger cast members. Clooney is very experienced at playing jaded jerks hiding a heart of gold, and the role of Frank Walker fits him perfectly.
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Tomorrowland demands less from its two adult leads, but George Clooney and Hugh Laurie help to give the movie a bit of heft. That’s a considerable pressure to put on a young performer, and Robertson acquits herself admirably. Outside of a framing device that bookends the film, Clooney is largely absent from the first hour of the film. Tomorrowland leans quite heavily on Robertson to carry a lot of the film. Robertson imbues Casey with just the right amount of snark and wonder to keep the film moving. Britt Robertson does great work as Casey Newton, a teenage lead who could easily seem awkward or flat. The movie also benefits from some fantastic casting. Brad Bird is a director who excels at this sort of energetic and exuberant film-making. There is a well-choreographed set piece arriving with the precision of a meticulously-time metronome. The hazily-defined internal logic is forgiveable, because everybody involved is having such a good time.
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It is full of memorable images and distinctive visuals – whether the smiling assassin androids or small supporting roles given to Keegan-Michael Key and Kathryn Hahn. Casey Newton is placed front and centre of the story, largely chaperoned by a recruiting robot in the body of a ten-year-old.Īpplying the logic of that sort of childish runaround, Tomorrowland works very well. Hugh Laurie is absent for a considerably long stretch in the middle of the film, even when the script might have flowed a bit easier had it been willing to extend his part. Clooney plays Frank Walker as a reluctant mentor to Casey, an adult struggling to retain some of his childish optimism. George Clooney and Hugh Laurie are the most prominent adults in the cast, and Tomorrowland is quick to minimise their involvement. Similarly, the father of young inventor Frank Walker appears in one scene that serves to explain just why Frank abandoned him and went off into the world alone. Casey’s father has a slightly larger role, but the film is careful to push him off-screen for the bulk of the action.
Judy Greer has about two lines of dialogue as Casey’s mother. Adults in the narrative generally find themselves revealed to evil robots or largely absent parents.
There is a sense that Tomorrowland is clearly intended to serve as children’s adventure story. Tomorrowland does an excellent job cultivating that sense of magical (or science-fictional) realism. The elevator isn’t glass, but it remains pretty great. In a prologue flashback, another young inventor takes a magical elevator from the It’s a Small World After All ride and has a robot fix his jetpack for him. Bird and Lindelof work hard to suggest some secret magical world operating just behind the mundane reality that we all take for granted. Tomorrowland follows a lot of the tropes of these sorts of stories quite carefully. Casey finds herself confronting killer robots and reinvigourating jaded mentors as she attempts to find her way towards this magical world where anything is possible. She finds herself drawn into a web of intrigue, discovering a (literal) whole new world where science-fiction dreams seem to have become reality. Tomorrowland centres itself on young Casey Newton, a very clever young woman who seems to look towards the stars in wonder. Then again, Bird and Lindelof are clearly fashioned a classic coming of age story. The basic ideas are strong enough to reel the audience in, even if there are some sizeable gaps internal logic. Bird’s direction keeps the film moving forward with enough speed that the audience never really stops to question or to nitpick what is happening. As befitting its fascination with fifties and sixties science-fiction iconography, Tomorrowland throws out high concepts with wry abandon. The movie has an incredible energy, zipping along under its own power. There is a pulpy fun to Tomorrowland, as you might expect from a Brad Bird film.
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