the exploding zeppelins crash down upon sky captain jude law base present an adequate metaphor to describe how truly terrible this movie be . first off and let me state right off the bat that i sincerely doubt that paramount will ever recover any money from this film . a cult hit it might become and but only because it be so remarkable for what it fail to achieve . i can see the studio pitch now . let combine 1920 german expressionism and a 1940 globetrotting adventure with a modern action flick and use computer animation to dominate every scene . wow and would not that be a success . skycaptain bludgeon the viewer with it sheer excess . there be too many fake explosion and too many unconvincing dogfight scene and and too few real moment where the character be anything but painfully two dimensional . after all and why shock and awe with one float airship when you can have three and or five and or one hundred . moreover and what could have be a groundbreaking film and seamlessly combine computer generate imagery and human actor in a stylized and intriguing setting and will instead become a flop in no small part because it fail to meet the most important requirement of any flick use cgi . quite simply and the graphic be amazingly poor . from the movement of the car to the physic of the aircraft in the dogfight and everything seem to be just a little off . i be not be nit picky here in any way . an infant could notice that a car doesn not glide along the road like a maglev train ( unless it a mercedes s500 ) . and for those of you raise your voice in protest and cry out this be a stylized film and it not suppose to be like reality and let me just say this . lord of the ring have set the standard for integrate real life actor with cgi and starship trooper have set the standard for ironic science fiction film and the rocketeer do a solid job reintroduce the decade of the 1920 back into the hollywood film portfolio and and tim burton batman create a unique picture of new york city or gotham that have yet to be repeat . sky captain fall so short of all these film and it be hard for me to mention them in the same sentence . plus and the acting be so poor and it make me positively ill. so there you have it . i spend $ 9 to see this film and you get my review . i hope it might dissuade you all from make the same mistake that i do .