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Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

PureLombardi Fresh off winning an Empire Jameson award for Best Short Film - although inexplicably snubbed for the Oscars - World of Tomorrow is a transcendent and masterful odyssey into what makes us human. Themes of memory, love and desire are all profoundly interwoven through a combination of visceral backgrounds, a visionary observation of the world to come and an emotional insight into how society will be affected by the new world. The short film follows a little girl named Emily (Winona Mae) who is taken on a tour of the future. Guiding her through this is a future version of herself: a 3rd generation version Emily (Julia Pott). Touring this future (227 years from the present), Emily delineates the abilities technology and science will wrought. Society can now clone, which is mainly used as a platform to subsequently store memories into, ultimately achieving immortality. Virtually all of the world can be solidified digitally into another platform: the "Outer-net", the next stage from the Internet. Here, limitless opportunities are possible, which include the ability to view any event in history, or to materialise any bit of consciousness. Completed with time travel, science and technology have distorted time and space.Notwithstanding the astounding evolution of this new world, it also has a bittersweet impact. Perpetually repeated, people have gradually become emotionless and mentally disintegrated using cloning. Lower class people are particularly affected, with millions dying over a cheap time travel method. And - a real possibility - the reliance of virtual reality has blurred the line between real and digital. This film imposes many questions and ideas. With cloning, will love become obsolete? Is the fear of the unknown our downfall? Audiences may feel confused upon a first viewing, but repetition will help to understand it viscerally. A viewer shall realise why the clones' memories are abstract: because they are comprised of digitalised memories. They did not experience them.Alike the director's previous film, It's Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt uses an emotionally fuelled narrative. World of Tomorrow's animated style of the characters is charming, and they fit well with the bleak abstract backdrops of the film. Little girl Emily is funnily and spontaneously voiced by 4-year-old Winona Mae, making the character's reactions feel genuine. Julia Pott voices Emily's clone understandably plain, but you can make small resonations with what sounds like feelings when she recounts her relationships. Coinciding magnificently with Hertzfeldt's beautiful use of classical music from the likes of Strauss and Gliere, this film invoked a lot in me. It taught me to value my life that tad bit more and to consider to what extent should the human race achieve their evolutionary goals. Needless to say, World of Tomorrow conveys more in 15 minutes than most features do in 120.

Michael_Elliott World of Tomorrow (2015) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Don Hertzfeldt's rather unique and original animated short deals with a young girl who is visited from the future by her third clone, which takes her into the future and show her how the world has changed in the two hundred plus years.I'm watching this short a couple days before the Oscars are actually announced and I must admit that I'll be shocked if something beats this. Well, it's the Oscars so I guess anything is possible but this is a rather clever, original and unique little gem that manages to be rather smart throughout its 17 minute running time. The animation itself is rather laid back but I thought this approach actually worked extremely well and especially when you consider that it's the screenplay and story that is really selling the material. Both Julia Pott and Winona Mae are extremely effective with their voices and really sell the characters quite nicely.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) It's been 20 years since a then not even 20-year-old Don Hertzfeldt made his very first short movie. Next year he turns 40 and this year it's the 20th anniversary of his career. After he has not made a new film for 4 years now, it's really nice to see him back with "World of Tomorrow", a 17-minute short film and his take on science-fiction. As all his movies, there is a great moral and lesson to take from this one here as well. I would say it is neither among Hertzfeldt's best or worst films, but somewhere in the middle. The main character, a little girl, meets her future self and goes on a journey with her and even if the 2 voice actresses were good, I was missing Hertzfeldt's voice as a narrator. He is just so much fun to listen to. Emily is an interesting character, but not even close to Billy in my opinion. Other than that, it's the usual Hertzfeldt again: his very own brand of humor, smart writing especially in terms of the dialogs, his usual simply style of animation, which is always very effective nonetheless, and the topic of loss and dealing with it, which is a dominant factor in many of his movies. I thought this was a good watch. One of the better 2015 short films I have seen so far.

MortalKombatFan1 Don Hertzfeldt's first digitally animated short film (if you don't include his Simpsons couch gag) is about a girl called Emily who is visited by a clone of herself from the future who takes her on a tour of the world of tomorrow. Beautifully intimate and epic at the same time - the movie covers similar themes from Don's other film "It's such a beautiful day", featuring both humorous and poignant scenes about living life, finding love, and why we hold onto memories. Here it's done in a more sci-fi setting, the director's vision of the future being completely his own."World of Tomorrow" is definitely worth checking out. You can stream it now on "Vimeo On Demand" for $5 dollars, so go ahead and support an independent artist working on original ideas - which is becoming rare in today's entertainment industry.9/10