Saw it today with a 10 year old, 7 year old and 3 year old.
All of them liked it and so did my wife and I.
Good fun stuff.
A little cheesy, but not one of those bullets you take just because you are a parent.
A few mildly questionable words (“stupid”, “shut up”) and the discussion of death, but for the most part pretty clean.
No worse than Nickelodeon in the afternoons.
The violence is cartoonish and the film rarely gets scary.
Pretty good stuff.
I’m looking forward to seeing this one. Always good to see Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley, and Bruce Campbell in a film.
Dave Foley was hilarious.
He plays:
Mild Spoiler
A teacher at the school who was once Kurt Russell’s sidekick.
Nice!
Yeah, my favorite parts of the movie were Foley’s interactions with what’shisname from The Kids in the Hall (I think?) and also Bruce Campbell.
“What if I told you she had an EVIL twin sister?”
I saw it today.
At the end, when Lynda Carter says “I’m not Wonder Woman” I cracked up. I was the only person in the theatre laughing.
I feel really old now.
We took the kids to see it yesterday. I admit, it was funny beyond all reason.
Feydeau - I, too, was the only one in the theater laughing at that remark.
I liked the movie also. Didn’t expect to, but there you go.
I loved the movie- it reminded me of the old Disney movies from the seventies… but with better effects. It was surprisingly well-written, to boot.
One question, though…
How did Lash (the stretchy guy) get taken out at the end of the movie? Nobody here at Casa de Lightnin’ can remember.
Layla was too damn cute, too.
I always wondered why Linda Carter didn’t get anymore work. I figured maybe it was because her husband was a multi-millionaire.
Then I found out. She’s not a good actress.
Hot. But not a good actress…
IIRC, he was all tied up. Literally.
And for me, the kid that played Warren Peace - num.
No, I believe
he got flushed and sucked down the pipe
I agree with the OP. I also wanted to add that there were quite a few females in this film that I found pleasing to the eye:
Kelly Preston (Josie/Jetstream)
Danielle Panabaker (Layla)
Kelly Vitz (Magenta)
Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Gwen)
Lynda Carter (The Principal)
An unusual bounty for a kid flick.
Also, I thought Cloris Leachman as the school nurse was hilarious. My favorite part of the film, really. Dave Foley and Bruce Campbell were funny as well.
My 9 girl and 5 girl liked it.
Yep, that was it. Strange that none of us could remember it. Thanks!
Oh my God yes…
“Kids that get bitten by radioactive insects or fall in a vat of toxic wastes get their powers immediately…” >shrug< “…or they die.”
Is it just me or does Mary Elizabeth Winstead look a LOT like Zooey Deschanel? I thought it was her.
And while I’m comparing, I could see Danielle Panabaker (Layla) getting work on Desperate Housewives as a younger version of Marcia Cross.
Looking at IMDb, it appears that Patrick Warbuton (the Tick and Puddy) did the voice for Major Pain.
Good to see Kurt Russell back in Disney movies. Miracle. Sky High. You can go home again.
It was cheezy, but oddly, that worked for it. Every actor seems to use low-key corniness. And it was so earnest and fun that It was just really enjoyable.
Warren Peace was top-notch. In fact, even though pretty much every kid in the thing was sterotyped, they were all so bloody accurate stereotypes I can see them as being real.
I also had a question about a line I heard in the teaser, but not the flick:
I thought Will was going to lose the “save the citizen” match because I thought I heard a line in the commercial where the dummy gets buzzsawed and the coach says “that’s why we started using dummies.” Did they say that somewhere else in the film, or was it edited out?
Never having seen the trailer, I can’t say whether that line was in there.
However, in the movie itself, the cranially-enhanced teacher was reminiscing with someone else (another teacher?) about when we used to use real people. (Paraphrased.) But I don’t recall a line about “that’s why we started using dummies.”
The folks who created Kim Possible co-wrote this film. They seem to enjoy stories about extraordinary kids.
There have been some comments about the film being derivative of other stuff (specialty school for special people a la Harry Potter, secret superhero lair a la Batman’s Batcave, family of superheroes a la The Incredibles), but I don’t think any of that stuff is derivative. You have to have a secret lair if you’re a superhero. And why can’t superheroes start a family?
Notice that Will is always wearing red, white, and blue- the same colors as his parents’ uniform.
The line was in the trailer and in the movie - a convo between Dave Foley (Mr. Boy) and Kevin McDonald (Mr. Medulla).