Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Sky High - Movie Review
Loved it. Kind of a Harry Potter/Breakfast Club feel with the goofy superhero stuff I love from The Tick and games of Champions back in college. Not all of the jokes worked, but I laughed out loud on many occasions, and the story, while not innovative, is fun, sweet, and nicely done. I went with my kids, and I was very happy to see that for once I was watching a kid-oriented movie where no one farted. There was one reference to a full diaper, but it was relatively low key. See Racing Stripes for wildly inappropriate kid-movie scatology. I'm not a fuddy-duddy, and I know from being six once that such stuff is very funny then, but I'm not there anymore.
Also, though the high school kids did fall in love, or at least in like, there was nothing more than kissing. Likewise, there wasn't any reference to drugs or alcohol. And gee, look, the movie was still really funny without David Spade making jokes about poo.
This is one of those movies where I wonder how anybody gives it a bad review. Sure, it's not great art, and sure it's derivative, but the themes it's re-using are solid and make you feel good. Those who want a comedy about young superheroes to be full of angst and meaning should go skulk back to the beret-filled coffeeshop from whence they came.
Also, though the high school kids did fall in love, or at least in like, there was nothing more than kissing. Likewise, there wasn't any reference to drugs or alcohol. And gee, look, the movie was still really funny without David Spade making jokes about poo.
This is one of those movies where I wonder how anybody gives it a bad review. Sure, it's not great art, and sure it's derivative, but the themes it's re-using are solid and make you feel good. Those who want a comedy about young superheroes to be full of angst and meaning should go skulk back to the beret-filled coffeeshop from whence they came.
