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DESPITE its title, Disney’s latest is a piece of unashamedly old-fashioned sci-fi aimed at younger audiences.

With shades of Back to the Future, Flash Gordon and those old serials they used to show on Saturday mornings, it’s very much a blast from the past.

After Pirates of the Caribbean, here’s another theme park ride the Mouse House has turned into a motion picture but, whatever its charms, you can’t quite see Tomorrowland morphing into a multi-billion-dollar franchise.

Britt Robertson is the teenage Casey who we meet on a night-time mission to sabotage a Nasa launchpad near her home in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

She’s resorted to breaking the law not only because she dreams of exploring the universe but because her engineer dad (country singer Tim McGraw) is facing the boot as mission control shuts down.

It’s during one of her nocturnal forays that she finds a lapel badge that, when touched, sends her to a futuristic world – Tomorrowland – whose citizens live in cities of steel, travel via hover-trains and

12A catch ships to other galaxies like taking a taxi. It’s the sort of place where the Jetsons would feel very at home.

As Casey’s discovery soon puts her life in danger, with a group of lethal androids on her tail, she hooks up with 10-year-old Athena (the beguiling Raffey Cassidy), who leads her to a cranky hermit called Frank (George Clooney) who just may hold the keys to saving the world.

Robertson presents a likeable and grounded heroine while Clooney, who