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We are always looking for movies that make a nice night out for the family, and “Sky High” fits the bill nicely. The plot is fun although pasted together from other movies: Will Stronghold is the son of a pair of superheroes: the Commander, who is super-strong, and his wife Jetstream, who can fly super-fast [shades of the Incredibles]. He is tapped to go to a super-hero school, Sky High, where a magical rite-of-passage sorts people into future heroes and future also-rans [shades of Harry Potter]. At school, he must suffer the snobbery of the high-school elite [shades of Mean Girls]. His head is temporarily turned by a beautiful meangirl, but eventually with the help of his true geek-and-nerd friend, he saves the world.
Although I’ve described it as a pastiche of other movies, “Sky High” is well done and clever. The “special skills” of the school’s students are used to good effect (skills that at first seem lame – like the magical ability to turn into a hamster, or to glow in the dark – eventually turn out to be VERY useful).
The teen actors all do a nice job, but the adult actors look antique, a testimony to botox and the arts of corsetry. Kurt Russell as Will’s dad the Commander is especially wooden (I think it’s the botox, myself), and looks swamped by his silly costume. Ditto Lynda Carter (formerly Wonder Women) as the school’s principal, whose youthful appearance seems dependent on spackle or some other plaster-like substance. Among the adults only Cloris Leachmann, in a very brief cameo as the school nurse, has a genuinely funny moment.
But the kids come off as genuinely heroic, so “Sky High” is a worthy addition to the Disney live-action pantheon.
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This set looks and sounds amazing. I will buy all newer anime shows on Blu-Ray.
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