Zoom (2006)

Zoom tried unsuccessfully to capture the magic of the X-men by becoming of rip-off of them and thank the Helmet of Magneto and Beast's hair this didn't happen and the movie failed both commercially, making only 12,5 million from a 35 million budget and critically with critics and general audience dismissing it as superhero movie and as a flick in general. In short don't bother watching it and now I will spoil you why it failed so dramatically.Firstly the person who plays the mentor is presented as a old superhero who after a tragic accident he quieted, but not for even one second while he was teaching ,I didn't see him as a professor and he was quit incompetent to find out that his main villain was his friend all along. Also why didn't he think that this doctor who say that she admire him and see him and his students at a daily based ,that she also has powers?Now to the students, kids with no interest to act and their personalities are so overused that I can't say if are good types or brads. And that is an issue because if you can not see the characters on the scene as unique people why bother to route for them? As for the "powers" ,I will only say that you have a girl with telekinesis, her boyfriend who has super strength and two other that I don't bother remembering and the effects are so lame that, those in Power Rangers look much nicer and cooler!! Finally the villain is a rip-off version of the Reverse Flash and has no further goal what so ever apart from killing the teacher who hates him just for hat sake. Yes , Thorne hate Flash ,but he did it because he was admire him and when he see him in the flesh he was disappointed. So Reverse Flash wins!Inconclusion this flick could be called "An X-men rip-off in order to capitalize from their success" and it would make no difference to me. The X-men aren't loved with armies of fans around the world due to their appearance ,but because they are a metaphor for the human rights , diversity and the nice personalities who live in their universe help the viewer to relate to them.

Zoom is a good clean family movie. It's meant to be fun and the storyline is meant to lighthearted. Premise is easy and simple. Captain Zoom has long since lost his powers and retired. After a battle that killed his team and his brother Concussion. Zoom has disappeared and in his place is JAck Shepard a bitter cynical man. Shepard doesn't believe in heroics anymore. So when the government tracks him down 30 years later with the job offer of training a new generation of heroes. He's offered a lot of money and he's told he is the best qualified because he is the last superhero alive. The Group consists of your usual clichéd kids the jock the wanna be cheerleader the fat kid and the little girl. All have amazing powers and the government under the Zenith project wants them to be trained to face a enemy,that's coming. The Enemy is Concussion Captain Zoom's long thought dead brother. The Story falters here and there and the ending is not as fantastic as it should be. But it's a kids movie. And that's good enough. Keep in mind the audience this was made for and you'll enjoy it. It's not Nolan's Batman films. It's more innocent. And A lot of fun.

I like a superhero movie as much as the next person, but not when it is this bad. Zoom for me is a contender for the worst superhero movie ever. Peter Hewitt has done some good films, The Borrowers is delightful and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey is one of the best sequels out there, but his direction here is very inept. Hewitt's direction is not the worst asset of Zoom though. The script is dire, while the juvenile humour gets embarrassing fast, the best it gets is the gag reel at the end and even that was lame. The story is lame and predictable, the action is special-effects driven mostly and it is badly done and the pace is rushed. The acting is simply terrible, Tim Allen is a talented actor but he goes through the motions, Courtney Cox is wasted and Chevvy Chase is simply embarrassing. All in all, just dismal and a chore to sit through. 1/10 Bethany Cox

This movie made me weep with emotion. I had no idea a movie could be THIS FREAKIN' BAD.Oh, of course - Chevy Chase is in it. 'Nuff said.Tim Allen is retired superhero Zoom (think: The Flash as a doughy guy), called back into service by the secret government agency (aren't they all?) that created him - not for his super services but as a consultant, to train a new generation of kid heroes.Courteney Cox is the bespectacled hot chick scientist who is supposedly dorky and not hot because of the spectacles. Chevy Chase is head of the secret government superhero project and doing as inept a job as we would expect him to be doing. That's not a gag when we're referring to his non-existent comedic timing as well.There is a scene where Zoom tells a kid how he has long stopped using his super speed, by vibrating his finger like a, well, a vibrator, and saying, "There was a time when I could make my whole body do that!" Courteney Cox just gushed in her lab coat.Zoom's brother, a guy who was originally a part of the super team and went rogue, is on his way back from some other dimension to, we surmise, do Bad Things. And Zoom's new uncooperative team of spoiled brats must be whipped into shape in time to stop him. Zoom rediscovers his superspeed in the process and there is much Disney rejoicing that makes us embarrassed to be alive.Appeals to the teen-and-below market who don't realize this story of self-realization has been told a million times, a billion times better.Cry Chevy and let slip the dogs of bore.--Review by Poffy The Cucumber (for Poffy's Movie Mania).