In the '60s, despite a Cold War that threatened to turn hot and blow up civilization, people saw the future as a clean and gleaming place, with flying cars and monorails moving at the speed of light. Today, the future is generally portrayed as a post-apocalyptic nightmare, with limited resources, little water and either no government or an all-pervasive, controlling government that makes life a living hell. [...] we meet the Clooney character, Frank, as a little boy making a visit to the 1964 World's Fair. To hold audience interest, everything that looks like action is pumped to the skies, which only makes the storytelling more plodding. [...] Tomorrowland" is as much about Edison and Eiffel's vision of the future as it is about the Jetsons'.