I liked the message better than the movie. Here’s a film by a brilliant filmmaker (Brad Bird – Incredibles, The Iron Giant) that has something to say, something I believe to be very important, but says it in an uninteresting and overly obvious way. Characters repeatedly recite the theme of the film until much of the message loses its meaning.
Tomorrowland plays more like a high budget, Disney channel movie special. It doesn’t seem like the type of story worth telling on the big screen. What’s worse, the trailers gave away most of the best parts so there’s a lot of boredom as you wait between long scenes of exposition (characters are constantly sitting around explaining the plot to each other, purely for the audience’s benefit) for something to happen (which you already knew was coming if you saw the trailers).
It’s certainly not a terrible movie but I found myself bored through a large amount of the running time. It’s purely passable evening entertainment but for someone like Brad Bird, that’s nowhere near what he’s capable of.