School's out and it's time to send the kids off to some backwoods lake where they can find true love (like in Moonrise Kingdom), fend for their lives (Friday the 13th), hang with the cool camp councilors (Hot Wet American Summer), or if they end up in Camp North Star from the film Meatballs (pictured), they might discover that it just. doesn't. matter.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Directed by Kerry Conran
Sci-Fi Action, Master Criminal Films, Period Film, Tech Noir - Rated PG - 107 Minutes - 2004
This grand, lush spectacle can astound or let down its audience at each wildly creative turn. To its credit, the film is lighthearted and visually sumptuous, packed with the kind of gee-whiz awe that rarely makes it to the big screen. Refreshingly, it does so without one bit of camp or irony in its bones. Hearkening back to the sci-fi pulp of the '40s, the film's look is a living and breathing homage to everything from Max Fleisher's Superman cartoons to Flash Gordon serials.