Film: Tomorrowland

There is much to love about this Disney film. Firstly, the old style innocence of children in whose minds anything is possible resonates with the child that has never left the inside of me.I’m very happy to live in a world where child-like robots can track science-geek optimists down and take them into another world – where everything works. Everyone is smiling, healthy and friendly. It helps that everything is in colour, no blacks or greys in Tomorrowland.In the 1960s – where the premise of this modern film delightfully stayed in - Young Frank visits a science fair to enter his hoverboard in a competition. There he is befriended by a young girl who gives him a (magic) badge that gets him to the other side, Tomorrowland.Cut to today, we see this pin transplanted to optimistic science geek Casey. (Her father is played by country music royalty, Tim McGraw –still getting used to him popping up in films) How the pin got to her, we don’t immediately know but Casey’s mind is blown as each time she touches it, it takes her to, you guessed it, Tomorrowland. Eventually she finds out who gifted her and the two of them track down the now middle-aged, secluded, genius Frank (George Clooney). She learns there are baddies who don’t want them in Tomorrowland, but why?It’s a fantasy I can buy into, I always want to believe in a better world where generally people are good. It’s a shame that in this Tomorrowland there is the baddie (Hugh Lawrie) keeping everyone else out of it, but he didn’t reckon our 3 optimistic heroes….Find out more about Tomorrowland here7½/10 Smile factor 9/10Catch up with me on @RickieWrites