Zoom - Academy for Superheroes (2006)

Great Family Film!!!

Zoom - Academy for Superheroes

My 7 year old daughter watched this at her cousins house and loved it...so I ordered it for our 'Friday Family Pizza Movie Night'. It was great! I enjoyed a 'real people' movie addition to our collection of animated films. We all loved it!!! June 19, 2008

Everyone LOVED it!!!

This movie was better than Sky High, which was a rip off from Harry Potter. But back on track. Everyone in my family loved this film, it was exciting, and edge of your seat fun. Tim Allen is so funny in ZOOM. Michael Cassidy is superb, and the rest of the cast is amazing. I could watch this movie over and over again. Sky High, bored me in the first five minutes. Zoom is way better!!! June 7, 2008

Utterly Brutal

Since I'm fan of watching superhero movies even if they are corny, this movie however is utterly brutal, almost too painful to watch. My hat goes off to the creators, cast and crew for making this for us.

Not really. April 5, 2008

Nobody in my family enjoyed this movie

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. October 16, 2007

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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!!!!!!!!!!!! :) August 18, 2007

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