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Jack Shepard (played by Tim Allen) is a washed up superhero - cynical, apathetic, and with his powers atrophied to almost nothing. However, there's danger afoot, and the American military has dragged him back into the program, to help train a group of adolescent superheroes - a 17-year-old boy who can turn invisible, a 16-year-old girl with the powers of telekinesis and telepathy, a 12-year-old boy who can inflate any part of his body, and an all-too-cute 6-year-old girl who has super-strength beyond belief. Jack must get over himself and his past, if he is going to train these new kids to the point where they can survive. Can he do it?
I must say that I looked forward to this movie with great anticipation. I loved Pixar's The Incredibles, and Disney's Sky High, and expected to enjoy this superhero movie as well. I extracted promises from my kids to watch the movie with me (teenagers!), and put in the DVD. It wasn't too long before my daughter wandered away to surf the `Net, and shortly later my son wandered off to find something to eat...or perhaps to just avoid watching the rest of the movie.
What went wrong? Zoom has a terrific cast, and they seemed to do a good job with their parts. The big problem was the script. The storyline was far too slow moving, seeming to rely on empty suspense - Will the American military harm the children? What is Jack's brother up to? Will Jack get over himself? But the problem was that they just didn't make us care. Even the dramatic confrontation at the end, which should have been the movie's highpoint, was over too quickly, and had a terribly anticlimactic feel to it.
I don't know where they thought that they were going with this movie, but wherever it was, they didn't get there. I like a good movie, especially a good superhero movie...and this just isn't one. Sorry, but nobody in my family enjoyed this movie, and we just cannot recommend it.
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I absolutely LOVE this movie!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a lot like Sky High, but in my opinion, is better! It has a GREAT cast! Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Courtney Cox, Rip Torn, Chevy Chase, Kevin Zegers & the ADORABLE new actress Ryan Newman all star in this movie! If u like Sky High, u will love this! (just like i did!) DEFIANTLY RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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I am very lucky that this movie was free (Regal Cinemas Free Family Film festival). The films throughout this summer have been great and some even took me by surprise on how good they were (Hoot).
This movie was a waste of my 90 minutes. My 7 year old daughter laughed at the funny parts and seemed to enjoy it since we went back both days. As a movie going adult, I was bored to tears. I hope that all the fine actors that were in this movie move on to something more exciting.
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Family-oriented comedy "Zoom" has the right cast. Tim Allen is a retired, washed-up ex-superhero who is given a mission to train a group of misfit kids with special ability. The trainees are played by Spencer Breslin, Kate Mara, Michael Cassidy and Ryan Newman. The film also has decent production designs, and is supported by the veterans like Rip Torn and Chevy Chase. So far, everything is great. Well, it might not be great exactly, but you can at least expect a decent family picture like "Sky High."
However, the film is helmed by a wrong director, Peter Hewitt, whose previous works include first "Garfield" movie and "Thunderpants" (just in case you haven't seen it, the latter is a one-joke film about a farting boy). For all the charms and the talent of the cast, and the characters' likable nature, those would-be superheroes/heroines becoming transparent or making the body and limbs bigger like rubber ball, have already been done in "The Incredibles" or other films of the same genre. With some wit or twists added, those characters would have been more interesting. As it is, they remain just OK with the lazy direction and very familiar sight gags.
The film's weak script, which does not explain convincingly why these kids must be brought together and trained like this, is already a problem. But the saddest thing is, for me, watching Chevy Chase covered with greenish sticky slime coming out of a boy's nose. It's a worse kind of gag than pie-throwing.
I like Tim Allen, but it makes me sad to see his recent films like this and "The Shaggy Dog." The film is not as bad as the very low user rating of IMDb suggests and the father-daughter-like relations between him and Ryan Newman is credible, but except that (and cute Ryan Newman) I cannot think of the reason why this film had to be made.
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My son loves this movie. It's definately not brain food, but he watches it through, writes "zoom" every chance he gets, and organizes his friends to be the characters from the movie. What more can you ask for from a kids' movie? If you have a young kid who likes superheroes, this is perfect.
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