![]() ![]() A half million dollar paycheck doesn’t hurt either. Comely (but clumsy) psychologist Marsha Holloway (Cox) is sent to fetch Jack, promising him that the kids won’t be irradiated, but “natural ” methods will be used. ![]() He and General Larraby decide to revive Project Zenith and use the powerless Zoom as a trainer for a new generation of heroes. ![]() Grant (Chase) has determined that a transdimensional portal is about to manifest in our world, and when it does Concussion will be loosed on our world again. However, there is a threat on the horizon. This leaves Jack without any speed powers (except in one finger) and retired, more or less happily, for 30 years. They had been the pride of America, protecting us from threats foreign and domestic until an ambitious general named Larraby (Torn) irradiated them with gamma radiation (doesn’t Bruce Banner have a patent on that?) causing one of them, Concussion, to go berserk and attack his own team, killing all of them except for Zoom who is forced to run faster than he ever has before, creating a vortex into which his brother is sucked, never to be seen again. What his customers don’t know is that Jack was once better known by another name – Zoom, team leader of the Zenith Project, kids with special powers who had been trained by the government to be a genuine superhero team. He runs an auto shop that prides itself on taking the time to fix cars right. Hope may spring eternal for a blogger, but not so much for Jack Shepard (Allen). I enjoy Tim Allen, at least most of the time, so I had hopes that this would be along the lines of a GalaxyQuest for the spandex set. That’s why it didn’t faze me – at least at first – that a superhero movie was coming out aimed directly for small fries. After all, comic books are part of the American landscape for most kids. I’ve even enjoyed the faux heroes of Sky High and The Specials.īeing a long time fan of the genre, I will admit that much of what goes on is intended for younger audiences. I will admit to missing that one, and after I saw it on DVD, I realized I’d made the right decision. Give me a movie about a superhero and I’ll almost certainly be there, unless it’s Catwoman. (Columbia) Tim Allen, Courtney Cox, Rip Torn, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Ryan Newman, Kate Mara, Michael Cassidy, Kevin Zegers, Thomas F. Tim Allen is pleased to find out that he isn't responsible for the problems of Zoom. ![]()
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