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Say, I\'d like to submit a film, \'\'Zoom: Academy for Superheroes\'\'. Before I go into why it qualifies, I thought I\'d relate my own experiences with it. See, I checked out this movie for \
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Say, I\\\'d like to submit a film, \\\'\\\'Zoom: Academy for Superheroes\\\'\\\'. Before I go into why it qualifies, I thought I\\\'d relate my own experiences with it. See, I checked out this movie for \\\"bad movie might\\\" with my friends, and we all found it so utterly awful we couldn\\\'t even make any jokes. The only other film we\\\'ve ever had this reaction to was \\\'\\\'Christmas With the Kranks\\\'\\\', which is on the page.
But, my opinion doesn\\\'t matter here, so let\\\'s get into the charges against the film. The film is a {{mockbuster}} of Disney\\\'s well-liked \\\'\\\'Sky High\\\'\\\', and stars bad-movie magnet Tim Allen as an [[OldSuperhero over-the-hill superhero]], Captain Zoom, who is brought in to train the next generation of heroes for a government program, who are all kids and teenagers including frequent Disney minion Spencer Breslin and Rooney Mara\\\'s sister. Characters and concepts are largely lifted from \\\'\\\'Sky High\\\'\\\' (there\\\'s one scene that\\\'s almost identical), most of the movie is spent on [[{{Technobabble}} exposition that doesn\\\'t make any sense]], and the characters are extremely unlikeable - the kids use their powers mostly to torture the adults and make bodily function jokes, and Zoom himself is such a cynic it\\\'s near-impossible to root for him. The characters are explicitly mentioned to be on a strict deadline to head off the bad guy, but spend most of their time goofing off and/or angsting. Speaking of the bad guy, he\\\'s only in the last seven minutes or so. The CGI is subpar, and the [[BrokenAesop film\\\'s major theme is violated]] - in a \\\"passing the torch to the next generation\\\" story, you\\\'d expect the next generation to save the day. But at the end, the BigBad [[CurbStompBattle destroys the kids]], and Zoom himself has to take him out, rendering the entire plot of training them pointless.
The film, naturally, took a critical thrashing. It has a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, who ranked it as the eleventh-worst film of the 2000s. The Agony Booth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Zoom__Academy_for_Superheroes_2006.aspx also roasted it]]. My only quibble with its inclusion is a 4.1 on IMDB, but we\\\'ve let in films with higher than that before, including \\\'\\\'The Last Airbender\\\'\\\'.
What do you think?
But, my opinion doesn\\\'t matter here, so let\\\'s get into the charges against the film. The film is a {{mockbuster}} of Disney\\\'s well-liked \\\'\\\'Sky High\\\'\\\', and stars bad-movie magnet Tim Allen as an [[OldSuperhero over-the-hill superhero]], Captain Zoom, who is brought in to train the next generation of heroes for a government program, who are all kids and teenagers including frequent Disney minion Spencer Breslin and Rooney Mara\\\'s sister. Characters and concepts are largely lifted from \\\'\\\'Sky High\\\'\\\' (there\\\'s one scene that\\\'s almost identical), most of the movie is spent on [[{{Technobabble}} exposition that doesn\\\'t make any sense]], and the characters are extremely unlikeable - the kids use their powers mostly to torture the adults and make bodily function jokes, and Zoom himself is such a cynic it\\\'s near-impossible to root for him. The characters are explicitly mentioned to be on a strict deadline to head off the bad guy, but spend most of their time goofing off and/or angsting. Speaking of the bad guy, he\\\'s only in the last seven minutes or so. The CGI is subpar, and the [[BrokenAesop film\\\'s major theme is violated]] - in a \\\"passing the torch to the next generation\\\" story, you\\\'d expect the next generation to save the day. But at the end, the BigBad [[CurbStompBattle destroys the kids]], and Zoom himself has to take him out, rendering the entire plot of training them pointless.
The film, naturally, took a critical thrashing. It has a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes, who ranked it as the eleventh-worst film of the 2000s. The Agony Booth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Zoom__Academy_for_Superheroes_2006.aspx also roasted it]]. My only quibble with its inclusion is a 4.1 on IMDB, but we\\\'ve let in films with higher than that before, including \\\'\\\'The Last Airbender\\\'\\\'.
What do you think?
