Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Sky High Review











Sky High


Release Date: 8th September 2005 - Australia


Production Companies
Walt Disney Pictures (presents)
Gunn Films
Max Stronghold Productions Inc.

Distribution
Walt Disney Studios Motion
Pictures Australia


Genre: Family/Comedy

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 minutes


Budget: $35,000,000

Box Office Gross: $86,369,815 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
Will Stronghold is attending high school in his first year and is the son of two superheroes. But this is no ordinary high school. It's a secret learning facility for children with superpowers called Sky High. Will gets branded as a sidekick because of his lack of powers. He must find his inner strength and set out to prove himself when a forgotten enemy returns to wreak his vengeance.


Cast
Michael Angarano - Will
Stronghold
Kurt Russell - Steve/The
Commander
Kelly Preston - Josie/
Jetstream
Danielle Panabaker - Layla
Kevin Heffernan - Ron Wilson Bus Driver
Dee Jay Daniels - Ethan
Kelly Vitz - Magneta
Loren Berman - Little Larry
Nicholas Braun - Zach
Malika & Khadijah Haqq - Penny
Jake Sandvig - Lash
Will Harris - Speed
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
Gwen/Royal Pain
Lynda Carter - Principal Powers
Bruce Campbell - Coach Boomer
Dustin Ingram - Carbon Copy
Kid
Steven Strait - Warren Peace
Cloris Leachman - Nurse Spex
Jim Rash - Mr. Grayson/
Stitches
Dave Foley - Mr. Boy
Kevin McDonald - Mr. Medulla
Patrick Warburton - Royal
Pain (Voice)
Amy Brown - Twin
Kimmy Brown - Evil Twin
Zachry Rogers - Young Commander
Tom Kenny - Mr. Tinnerman
Jill Talley - Mrs. Tinnerman
Christopher Wynne - News Anchor
Nicole Malgarini - Freeze Girl (Uncredited)

Crew
Director - Mike Mitchell
Writers - Mark McCorkle,
Robert Schooley and Paul Hernandez
Executive Producers - Mario Iscovich
and Ann Marie Sanderlin
Producer - Andrew Gunn
Production Designer - Bruce Robert Hill
Illustrators - Daren Dochterman
and Paul Rudish
Art Director - William Hawkins
Assistant Art Directors - Desma Murphy and
Marshall Lee Toomey
Set Decorator - Robert Gould
Costume Designer - Michael Wilkinson
Assistant Costume Designer -
Christine Bieselin Clark
Makeup Department Head - Christina Smith
Special Makeup & Prosthetics Creator:
Medulla & Babies - Matthew W. Mungle
Director of Photography - Shelly Johnson
First Assistant Director - Justin Muller
First Assistant Director: Second Unit -
Nick Satriano
Second Assistant Director - John M. Morse
Location Manager - Jeremy Alter
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator -
Scott Rogers
Assistant Stunt Coordinator - Chris O'Hara
Special Effects Supervisor - Al Broussard
Visual Effects Supervisors: Asylum -
Nathan McGuinness and Mitchell S. Drain
Visual Effects Supervisor: Furious FX -
David Lingenfelser
Visual Effects Consultant: Asylum -
Hoyt Yeatman
CG Supervisors: Asylum - Dottie Starling
and Sean Andrew Faden
Editor - Peter Amundsen
Supervising Sound Editors - Donald J. Malouf
and Todd Toon
Sound Effects Editors - Adam Kopald,
Charles W. Ritter and David Kern
Re-Recording Mixers - Terry Porter
and Dean A. Zupancic
Music - Michael Giacchino
Music Supervisor - Lisa Brown


Review
Before the production company, Disney purchased Marvel and its characters. There was a time when the studio created its own original stories of superheroes on the silver screen. The only two successful features that came out during the superhero boom of the 2000s are The Incredibles and, to a lesser extent, SKY HIGH. Although the first film was an animated top dog of the previous year, the other is live-action. It's not as successful as Disney had hoped but is said to be one of the best and most likely underrated features to come out in the spring. After viewing SKY HIGH on Foxtel, I find it has a solid coming-of-age story that spoofed the traditional superhero clichés and blended well with a large dosage of teen comedy.

The men that were behind Kim Possible had written this filmIt could have been a remarkable series for SKY HIGH if there had been three more chapters as if it had planned to continue the movie's characters in their high school years until graduation. The tongue-in-the-cheek humour fitted appropriately to the film, and the pacing was fresh and watchable. The young actors and actresses did very well in the ensemble cast of teenagers who worked well with Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston. It is good to see Kurt again team up with Disney after his long-running partnership with the multi-billion dollar company.

SKY HIGH is a lighthearted, well-paced high school movie that appeals mainly to adolescents. This movie would be good to re-watch as it has an interesting spin on superheroes from the high school life perspective and mixes this element with engaging action sequences.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

2 comments:

  1. Good review! It's goofy and silly, but I really liked this movie. :)

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    1. I would've loved this movie too, if it hadn't been a bit cheesy and yeah, it's a good film.

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