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 Sky High (DVD)
Description: Genre: Children's DVDs - Disney / Theatrical Release: 2005 / Director: Mike Mitchell / Actors: Kurt Russell, Michael ... more  Sky High (DVD) ... Angarano ... / DVD released 06 February, 2006 at Walt Disney Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.Newest Review: ... whether students will be heroes or sidekicks. The tests are taken by Coach Boomer, the always impressive Bruce Campbell, and ... more ... Will, naturally, ends up as a sidekick (or Hero Support as they like to be known!)
So we have the hero and his friends, the sidekicks (nerds/geeks in most films) and those who are classified as heroes (the Jocks/cheerleaders).
Will falls for the class babe, has an arch enemy (the wonderfully named Warren Peace who is very similar to Heath Ledger in 10 Things I Hate About You) and gets picked on by the jocks/heroes
As you can see we have the bog standard set up… nerds vs. jocks, a girl of the heroes dreams, the...more |
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Sky High (DVD): High School hijinks high in the sky. (1018 words)
by Ailran - written on 04.02.06 (Very useful, 167 readings)
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Sky High is, at it’s heart, just another of the never ending line of teen high school comedies that the American movie system continually churn out. The target audience never seeming to get fed up with them, no matter how many they see. Occasionally they do have a good crossover appeal to adults (Clueless & Mean Girls) but generally speaking they have very few if any redeeming features for any out of their teens or early twenties, unless of course you really do want to relive your own teenage years. Sky High is one of those bad ones, or would be if it wasn’t for the addition of super powers. See Sky High isn’t a school for normal teens, oh no! Its student ...
