I've always liked George Clooney he's a very good actor, but in this he takes a back seat because the two lead females are so good, Britt Robertson is a geat little actress anyway but she nailed it in this, but for me Raffey Cassidy blew me away with how phenomenal she was. This is a visually stunning and well made, entertaining movie, I enjoyed it from start to finish.

Given recent social media and news reports about the state of our nation, I found "Tomorrowland" not only timely but very positive.

Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) is a brilliant, inquisitive young girl who wants to travel in space. She's discouraged by her dad, a NASA worker, because NASA is closing. When she climbs a few fences and makes her way into the Cape Canaveral Launch Center to sabotage equipment and keep it from closing, she's arrested.

Upon the return of her personal effects, Casey finds a pin that isn't hers. She touches it, and suddenly, she's in a city of the future. This leads her on quite an adventure, which includes meeting a robot, Athena (Raffey Cassidy),who thinks Casey can help save the future. She brings Casey to meet Frank Walker (George Clooney),who has given up his life's project. As a former child inventor, he had worked to learn the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in collective memory.

I hate to say it but I think this film was maybe too esoteric for the special effects audience. This is a version in a way of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and also deals with quantum physics.

Wonderful, fascinating movie, with incredible special effects and yes, the theme of optimism versus pessimism, summed up in a speech by Nix (Hugh Laurie) that you could read anywhere today. And the message is clear: If you buy into a bad future, you can't change it.

Tomorrowland never really takes off and is jarring from the beginning. Director Brad Bird displayed a sure footing in his live action debut, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol which is missing in Tomorrowland.

The film begin with a clumsy introduction by George Clooney (Frank) where we flashback to the 1964 World's Fair when as a wide eyed optimistic boy genius he entered a jetpac into competition and first encountered Athena a girl who he fell for only to discover later that she was a robot.

In the present Frank is is resentful and disillusioned. He was kicked out of Tomorrowland as he realised the world was destined to end with no way to change it. In the meantime Athena is still plucking out people who can make a difference by form of a small pin which takes them to another dimension. One of them is Britt Robertson (Casey) a clever optimistic teenager who gets up to haphazard stuff in her spare time.

Frank, Casey and Athena get together and go to Tomorrowland via the Eiffel Tower and realise that Casey could change the future for better.

The film is clumsy and disjointed. Clooney is too glum which does not help. Casey also jars, she does not listen, she screeches, bickers and you never really root for her. We also have to believe that she is clever because she can break into NASA by way of a drone controlled by a smart-phone. I know toddlers who can control toys by smart-phones!

The worse thing is despite the splash of great special effects here and there, the film is boring and just plods along. Hugh Laurie is just a one dimensional villain with cartoon henchmen, in once case Star Wars obsessed ones. The film lacks the sense of wonder, spectacle, dazzlement and fun.