Whoa! What is that? I'm standing on Hollywood Boulevard ready to go into a screening when I check out the street in front of Mann's Chinese Theater. The entire boulevard is closed and "guarded" by three massive robots that top out at at least 3 stories! Of course the "robots" are full of hot air like Macy Parade balloons but I wouldn't want to tangle with them. They are all a part of the premiere of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

In "Sky Captain", the world's most famous scientists are disappearing one by one, and following an attack on Manhattan by an army of giant, mechanical robots, which she barely escapes, ambitious photo-journalist Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow) decides to hook up with her old flame hotshot flyboy and wiseass Joe Sullivan (Jude Law). Together they hope to defeat the robots, find out who is behind them and what he or she plans.

Polly and Joe's investigations send them far and wide in search of the mysterious madman scientist responsible, Dr. Totenkopf (Sir Laurence Olivier, in an amazing posthumous computer-created performance). When the flying and walking robots attack Sky Captain's cool hidden island hide out, they grab his pal and science nerd Dex (Giovanni Ribisi), who is busy trying to track down and jam a radio signal that is controlling all the robot hardware.