Zoom
Ok, so I’m a nerd. I love anything that has to do with super powers and comic books…except this movie. Zoom is a movie about a jaded ex-superhero who is hired by the government to train a group of super-powered kids. It sounds like a great idea on paper. (Hell, I loved Sky High), but the problem with this movie is cheese. I guess maybe I went into this one expecting something that everyone could like. I mean Peter Dewitt did “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey”. Unfortunately, this movie is targeted only at kids. Zoom is definitely for the Nickelodeon crowd. Don’t get me wrong, There were some decent performances by Tim Allen (aka Zoom), Courtney Cox, and if you can believe it, Chevy Chase, but they don’t help the movie that much. It’s funny that they chose Chevy to play the government scientist in this movie. The entire feel of the movie was that of a National Lampoon film. In fact, there is even one scene where the kids lock Chevy in a room that simulates weather. They spend several minutes of the movie torturing him Lampoon style. This felt like a guilty pleasure for the director and made for one of the most pointless scenes . The special effects were ok, and the acting was fair, which didn’t make this movie a total bust. But, the character development was predictable and one-dimensional. Of course, this is a kids movie after all. I give this movie a definite “Don’t waste your time unless you’re baby-sitting your eight year old brother.”- Tony