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Aug. 7th, 2007 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI watched Sky High again. Twice. It's a superhero-school movie. I'm not sure why I came back to it. It's a generic disney-ish movie, but feel good and pleasant -- and never painful to see, which is valuable extra -- and funny, though not ever so so.
Good things
* The special powers. They're mostly well chosen, they feel right, define the characters, and are cool without being too silly.
* Feel good. Yay, I'm happy that the good guys win.
* Warren Peace is cool. (Those of my friends who like bad boys I think will be pleased. Though none of the photos show him throwing fire. Somehow the whoosh as he throws his hands down and they ignite is just right. It does say something that the only interesting character is so gruff.)
* The scene where Leila starts to sit at Warren's table is the funniest I've seen in a little while.
Bad things
* Will's parents are superheroes, one who can fly and a master of martial arts, and one who's superstrong and invulnerable. One is always named first. Can you guess which?
* There's no direction. They *talk* about how you're born doesn't matter. Will doesn't have to live up to his parents. Being a sidekick is cool. They make it clear how stupid the system is of dividing everyone into two.
But in the end Will wins because he develops super superpowers. Just like his parents. And the gang do win by working together, but also by just happening to find out that their powers are useful.
* And I'm normally a sucker for using special powers in creative ways. Because it shows ingenuity and determination and doing your own thing can be as important as what you're born with and no knowledge is useless. But if it just happens by chance, that hardly validates you. OK, I suppose you can take it as a metaphor for some more important quality than being able to glow in the dark.
* ETA: If there are three people, and one savagely beats a high-school student (but was stopped just in time, one saves high school students from being savagely beaten, and one kills several hundred people (but was stopped at the last minute). You might think they'd go to jail for a short time, be praised and rewarded, and be sent to jail for a long time, respectively. But if the three are themselves children, all three result in detention. OK, that's probably a bad thing about life rather than the film.
Good things
* The special powers. They're mostly well chosen, they feel right, define the characters, and are cool without being too silly.
* Feel good. Yay, I'm happy that the good guys win.
* Warren Peace is cool. (Those of my friends who like bad boys I think will be pleased. Though none of the photos show him throwing fire. Somehow the whoosh as he throws his hands down and they ignite is just right. It does say something that the only interesting character is so gruff.)
* The scene where Leila starts to sit at Warren's table is the funniest I've seen in a little while.
Bad things
* Will's parents are superheroes, one who can fly and a master of martial arts, and one who's superstrong and invulnerable. One is always named first. Can you guess which?
* There's no direction. They *talk* about how you're born doesn't matter. Will doesn't have to live up to his parents. Being a sidekick is cool. They make it clear how stupid the system is of dividing everyone into two.
But in the end Will wins because he develops super superpowers. Just like his parents. And the gang do win by working together, but also by just happening to find out that their powers are useful.
* And I'm normally a sucker for using special powers in creative ways. Because it shows ingenuity and determination and doing your own thing can be as important as what you're born with and no knowledge is useless. But if it just happens by chance, that hardly validates you. OK, I suppose you can take it as a metaphor for some more important quality than being able to glow in the dark.
* ETA: If there are three people, and one savagely beats a high-school student (but was stopped just in time, one saves high school students from being savagely beaten, and one kills several hundred people (but was stopped at the last minute). You might think they'd go to jail for a short time, be praised and rewarded, and be sent to jail for a long time, respectively. But if the three are themselves children, all three result in detention. OK, that's probably a bad thing about life rather than the film.
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Date: 2007-08-08 09:56 am (UTC)I feel like I'm collecting list of books and films that I like, but others don't, in order to have a quickest test for if someone has the same taste as me :)