For anyone who's a fan or who even saw Sky High......

[pops_mcfly]

Disney actually did the same movie a few years before Sky High came out. I really wanna see Sky High( haven't had the chance yet) but in a way I already did in the year 2000--in another Disney movie--a tv one called Up, Up, and Away. The similarities between the two are just too ironic--My paticular opinion is that Disney was actually working on the early stages of Sky High but wanted to make sure that the whole Superhero-family farce wold be worth the trouble and work, so they threw this half-assed mess together.

I hate tv movies most of the time but this looked somewhat intresting--how wrong I was. essentially it's about the world's most famous superheros and their three kids--their oldest and youngest have powers and thus are on their way up the "famous hero's" ladder--although the youngest is seven she is till allowed to fight crime. The middle kid however is seemingly powerless. As such he's banned from going out on family hero adventures simply for having no powers (No Batman heros in this universe obviously) and he generally feels left out and feels like crap--his family doesn't really help--they either tease him or make a big deal outta him not having powers.

An evil villan from the past turns up and kidnaps the family and he has to go rescue them--sound familiar? like a mix of Sky High and the Incredibles?

keep reading.

Now's here's where things get a little sticky. The costumes are predictably somewhat cheesy but I can live with that because it looks right for the film(as it does for Sky High)  There are a lot of foggy reasoned things in this movie that kinda leave you scratching you noggin. For example the kid DOES rescue his family but he doesn't ever get any powers and is left as he was originally--they do this to give the movie a "be happy with who you are" message and his family actually says this verbally and tell him they love him for him yadda yadda yadda.... the problem behind this is the fact that everyone in the family who has powers all share the same kryptonite-level of weakness to a paticular substance-simply because they are superpowered, why is never explained and is hidden behind the fogginess reasoning I mentioned earlier--never the less the substance is literally a deadly kryptonite level type of thing.

Even THIS would be so bad--except for what the weakness turns out to BE!

you guys better sit down for this one--and keep in mind it's not supposed to be anything except what it actually is.


ready?






Tinfoil.


Yes.


you read that right.

tinfoil.


literally.

tinfoil.

it isn't even portrayed as an alien substance which would be cheesy yes, but it would certainly be better than having their weakness literally be tinfoil.

The family is put in cages made completely of tinfoil and are helpless until no-powered-boy shows up and tosses the cages aside.

This movie coulda been much better--even if it was a Sky High-test the waters type of flick if they had chosen a decent weakness and given the kid powers in the end instead of turning in into a "The More You Know" commercial like you see on NBC all the time.


pathetic.

still, it would probably be good review fodder here.....

[Scottie]

tin foil? Is it safe?

[pops_mcfly]

Guess not--they almost die in the film--at least that's the implication...