I don’t have a lot to say about this, so I’ll split it up into two parts: the movie and the effects.

The Movie

They’ll do anything necessary to:

1. Advance the plot
2. Crack a bad line
3. Show off an effect

Yeah… That’s about it. Sadly #1-2 weren’t worth it, which left us with the effects.

The Effects

The effects were good. Think Final Fantasy: The Movie, and then throw in a pound of realism. Everything was CG except for 4-5 (ish) key actors. I’m sure it was closer to 20, but really EVERYTHING you see is CG. And it is very, very good. There was only one or two scenes where some polishing needed to be done. If you’ve followed CG like I have you’ll simply cringe and ask yourself why they didn’t catch / polish them. Hopefully for the DVD I guess (which I won’t buy).

Overall

Just to give Sky Captain a break, one of the folk I went with really enjoyed it. He said it was “the perfect comic book movie”. Dunno. To me it seemed like a cross between Crimson Skies (with less action), Star Wars Episode 1 (with worse dialogue) and listening to the news on the radio (with less personality).

I don’t really have anything better to compare it to. As a CG movie it’s fantastic. But the action is horrible. Considering the hero flies a plane, they don’t let you see very much of what he’s doing. You see a lot of:

1. What he’s seeing
2. What he’s just flown past

…. But not a lot of context. I felt like I was watching someone else play an arcade game.

Oh, look… I did manage to find something to write after all ;-)