![]() ![]() These feature things like the candidates’ tryouts (where a group of kids demonstrate their not-always-so-super skills, such as producing giant amounts of gas or green slime from their nose), training exercises (involving a paintball machine and havoc-wreaking opportunities), taking a flying saucer for a spin (that offers a perfect product placement for a fast-food franchise), and seeking vengeance on the chief scientist, played by Chevy Chase (which appears to have been added simply to provide the veteran actor a cameo comedic moment). The problem with the movie is, once the introductory credits with the voiced-over narration ends, the plot also vanishes! Instead, the film presents a series of montage sequences-all edited to popular music, of course. They include six-year-old Cindy (Ryan Newman), an incredibly strong young lady with a stronger desire to play dress-up, twelve-year-old Tucker (Spenser Breslin), whose tubby body can expand to immense proportions, sweet sixteen Summer (Kate Mara), a beauty with extraordinary brain power, and seventeen-year-old Dylan (Michael Cassidy), whose cocky and angst filled attitude is almost as amazing as his ability to disappear. ![]() Former superhero Jack Shepard, also known as Captain Zoom, is called back to work to transform an unlikely group of ragtag kids into a new generation of superheroes. It features positive messages about duty, loyalty, teamwork, family and appreciating. Former superhero Jack is called back to work to transform an unlikely group of ragtag kids into superheroes at a private academy. Based upon the children's book Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy by Jason Lethcoe, 4 the film stars Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin and Rip Torn. Tranquilized and forcibly returned to the secret government agency that honed his unique talents as a youth, the jaded middle-aged man meets their young recruits. Zoom, based loosely on the book Amazing Adventures From Zoom’s Academy by Jason Lethcoe, is a generally mild-mannered mash-up of many movies, including The Incredibles, Mystery Men, Spider-Man, The Hulk, all three X-Men movies, Sky High and Agent Cody Banks. Zoom (also known as Zoom: Academy for Superheroes) is a 2006 American superhero comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and written by Adam Rifkin and David Berenbaum. A former superhero and comic book legend known as Zoom (Tim Allen) is called back into action when an old enemy poses a new threat-not to reprise his daring deeds, but to train a new generation of potential superheroes. ![]()
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