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Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

it is a great movie it is a really funny movie i never saw anything like this before it is a funny funny movie you will like this movie a lot Tim Allen is funny and he is really funny on this movie this mate one of the best movies he has been in this is one good movie that the family will enjoy it is one funny movie i never saw anything like this before this movie is a masterpiece it is amazing i like this movie so much you will like this movie a lot make this movie number 1 of the best family films this is one of the best movies i haver ever seen you will like this movie a lot make this movie number 1 movie in the whole world this is a cool movie this is a hoot zoom is a cool movie that you have too see i like this movie so much i never saw anything like this before make this movie a golden mettle i like this movie a lot this is one cool movie that you just have too see

'Zoom' starts off on a promising note. I had the impression that it would be a comic-book spoof comedy but it pretty much turns out to be just another generic kid's sci-fi flick. It's not as terrible as many have made it out to be. For a children's movie, it's quite okay. The biggest flaw lies in the writing. The contrived script is repetitive and filled with plot holes. The characters lack development. Given the concept, this could have been something highly entertaining for adults and children. The special effects are quite poor. The pacing is also poorly maintained. Much of the humour is very effective thanks to Tim Allen, Courteney Cox and Chevy Chase. Allen is brilliant as the washed-up aged superhero who's forced to train four kids to use their power appropriately. Cox is a natural performer when it comes to comedy and she is fantastic as the ditzy, nerdy, enthusiastic do-gooder psychologist. Chevy Chase is hilarious, especially in the scenes where he's bullied by the kids. The rest of the cast is passable. Overall, it is these three actors who kept me laughing throughout this very mediocre-at-best flick.

Any film that starts with an elongated voice over giving the viewer the back-story has to be viewed with suspicion from the outset...or at least that is my experience. So the rot sets in early.So what do we get? A brainless load of rubbish. Cartoon characters in the truest sense of the word. Lack lustre juvenile love story sub-plot (yawn!). 6 year old effectively abandoned by her parents (charming!). Creepy bedroom scene -- 6 year old with non-relative in his 50s.Oh, and then, brother who killed Zoom's lover and best buds is forgiven in a trice. What shite!Hmnnn... Well, side stepping Tim Allen's dyed goatee (what price growing old gracefully), how Courtney Cox could have been so hard up as to appear in this pile is the true mystery of this non-com.Utter rubbish. A waste of 90mins of my life. 90mins too long.

I have seen a number of movies from Revolution Studios, and with almost all of them I have found them to be souless "product" - movies put together with ingredients that seemed to guarantee a big hit, but lacking soul. With movies like this (a box office flop, partly due to the fact it was not screened for critics, a sign audiences know usually means a stinker), it's no wonder that Revolution Studios closed its doors a year later.What went wrong with this movie? The main reasons the movie is a stinker can be traced to the script. We have four youths on the team Allen is leading, and we learn next to nothing about them. They are pretty interchangeable. The rest of the characters are poorly written as well. The bad guy of the movie doesn't appear until the last 15 minutes of the movie, leaving no time to develop him.This poor writing of the characters may explain the awful performances from the adult members of the cast. I agree with the Leonard Maltin movie guide that Allen seems to be phoning it in. He seems to have a contempt for what he is surrounded by, making his character very unlikable. As for Chevy Chase, he doesn't even TRY to be funny.The movie tries to inject emotion by playing popular pop songs on the soundtrack, but it doesn't work. The sets and various indoor and outdoor locations are okay, I guess. But the CGI used is third-rate, giving the movie a cheap look when it occurs. Kids may not mind that. But will they like the rest of the movie? If I saw this as a kid, I probably wouldn't have liked it - the movie lacks spirited characters and a sense of wonder and excitement. There may be some (very) young kinds who might like this movie, but I don't think it will be a movie that they will want to watch again and again.