Tomorrowland
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: May 22, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 48 Critic Reviews
Positive:
28
Mixed:
19
Negative:
1
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90
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonMay 19, 2015
Bird layers on plenty of dazzle... But his heart is what keeps the story motoring and the ending is perfectly engineered, including a coda that encourages all of us to try harder. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMay 17, 2015
All hands on both sides of the camera do outstanding work. Clooney seems to be enjoying himself thoroughly as the old grump whose creative flame hasn’t been entirely extinguished, but it falls more to Robertson to carry the film, which she does with great energy and appeal. Read full review
83
IndieWireGreg CwikMay 17, 2015
Bird has crafted a gorgeous world rife with creativity and inventive images. A Spielbergian sense of candid awe and wonder permeates each scene with a nostalgic edge. Read full review
80
CineVueEdward FrostMay 21, 2015
An amalgamation of Disney's heritage, current status and future enterprises that starts in the evocatively rendered 1964 World's Fair, Tomorrowland is a refreshing and well-intentioned standalone piece that revels in a creatively manufactured appropriation of the conglomerate's existence. Read full review
80
Total FilmPaul BradshawMay 18, 2015
If you’re willing to let a few things slide, this is one of the best family blockbusters in years. Clooney and Robertson (literally) soar, the madcap action always feels grounded and Bird’s world is bursting with visual invention. Read full review
80
EmpireOlly RichardsMay 18, 2015
Bird and Lindelof have thrown everything they have at this film and, aside from a pause for breath at the end, they’ve made something funny, surprising and packed full of wonder. Read full review
80
The GuardianSteve RoseMay 17, 2015
Director Brad Bird deserves praise for packing such big ideas into such an accessible, rip-roaring, retro-futurist adventure. Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMay 28, 2015
The movie leaves a bunch of questions unanswered but rockets ahead in such entertaining style that I scarcely minded. Read full review
75
USA TodayBrian TruittMay 21, 2015
A spectacular ride for most of it, and while you're a little let down at the end, you kind of want to jump back on and do it all over again. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 21, 2015
The movie is saying something worth hearing about the place the future holds, the concept and promise of it, in human existence. It’s an attempt to wrest that vision from the narrow fantasies of doom-peddling action filmmakers. That’s an attempt worth making. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 21, 2015
There's a surprising number of salient, even revolutionary notions about human nature and intelligence throughout, none fully explored but enough to make the running time at least 20 minutes too long. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMay 21, 2015
Tomorrowland is a crazy, disjointed mess. But it’s the good sort of crazy, and it’s the sort of mess you want to lose yourself in. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneChristopher BorrelliMay 21, 2015
At times Tomorrowland plays like such a throwback to those sweetly naive, low-rent, live-action Disney matinees of the '60s and '70s, George Clooney is like a Fred MacMurray with gravitas, gruff and grizzle, predictably warming up to a young dreamer (a terrific Britt Robertson) of cheer and vision. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 19, 2015
If you treat Tomorrowland mainly as an immense cinematic theme park that unveils a new "ride" every few minutes—just as Bird's last feature, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" was mainly a series of action scenes—its weaker aspects won't be deal-breakers. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 21, 2015
It’s so smart, so winsome, so utterly rejuvenating that you’ll have to wait until your eyes have dried and your buzz has worn off before you can begin to argue with it. And you should argue with it — even if you had a blast, as I did, and want to see it again with the kids, as I do — because it’s a major pop-culture statement with all sorts of implications, both vital and nutty. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 21, 2015
Tomorrowland may not fully reach the heights for which it strives, but it has a good time trying. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirMay 21, 2015
The wonder of Tomorrowland – and with all its flaws and its hidebound Disney formula, it really is wonderful – is that Bird’s tale of nostalgia for the lost future manages to recapture some of that original, optimistic meaning without losing sight of the newer and darker one. Read full review
70
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 17, 2015
George Clooney and newcomer Britt Robertson are solidly compelling, but Tomorrowland remains only a moderate success, its ingenuity, wit and enormous heart too often at odds with a ho-hum story and tentpole conventionality that the film tries so hard to transcend. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 22, 2015
Tomorrowland is a rather sweet excursion into speculative sci-fi, and, wonder of wonders, it doesn’t even seemed primed for a sequel. But this movie about the thrill of the visionary is, alas, mostly earthbound. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMay 20, 2015
There’s much to applaud and much to knock in this Disney action adventure. Tomorrowland breaks the mold and becomes something quite original, while at the same time it ballyhoos its inspirational message to an extent that deadens the narrative. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd May 19, 2015
Bird stages the PG mayhem with his usual grasp of dimension and space, his gift for action that’s timed like physical comedy. He keeps the whole thing moving, even when it begins to feel bogged down by preachiness and sci-fi exposition. Read full review
65
TheWrapInkoo KangMay 17, 2015
Tomorrowland is a globe-trotting, time-traveling caper whose giddy visual whimsies and exuberant cartoon violence are undermined by a coy mystery that stretches as long as the line for “Space Mountain” on a hot summer day. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMay 21, 2015
Unlikely to be remembered in decades to come - or even in months to come, once the next teenage dystopian fantasy inserts itself into movie houses. Read full review
63
Rolling StonePeter TraversMay 21, 2015
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland, a noble failure about trying to succeed, is written and directed with such open-hearted optimism that you cheer it on even as it stumbles. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 21, 2015
The thing barely makes a lick of sense. Rapturous on a scene-by-scene basis and nearly incoherent when taken as a whole, the movie is idealistic and deranged, inspirational and very, very conflicted. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 21, 2015
Tomorrowland is an interesting collage of moments and ideas in search of a strong narrative and a coherent ending. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 20, 2015
Bird cooks up lots of eye candy, but the dazzle wears off, and nobody really connects emotionally. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChristopher GrayMay 20, 2015
In Brad Bird's film, the way forward is backward, on a path that stumbles into misplaced nostalgia and dicey humanism. Read full review
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