BlazeLime
Strong and Moving!
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Phillida
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
adriangoldammer
It was hard not to notice that only the non-white kids were given the lamest powers and were, of course, rejected from being a part of the team. Not sure what they (writers/producers/directors) were thinking when they did that other than to purposely alienate a huge chunk of their audience from the very start. Maybe they didn't think anyone would notice. Or even if they did, maybe they thought viewers would just shrug this insult off and say "Its just a kid's movie". But the fact that it is a kid's movie is all the more reason for it to be panned. Perhaps they thought a kid's movie would be the perfect vehicle to strike some kind of blow against diversity or something? Whatever the case, the extremely low rating for this picture isn't a surprise to me at all. Even worse than that subtle bit or racism marring it, the film was derivative of Disney's Sky High, dragged a bit in too many places and was dragged COMPLETELY DOWN by that horrific performance by Chevy Chase.
bob_bear
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.
hatsubob
I had to review this just because its been given such a low rating by most of the other users on this site.This is a decent, fun kids movie, if you have young kids I'm sure this would be great to watch with them on DVD.Tim Allen is a funny,likable guy, he plays his character like he does in all his other movies, so if your a Tim Allen fan, you shouldn't hate this movie.Chevy Chase, is pretty much what you'd expect, funny guy, OK so it's by far and away not his best movie, but he's just playing the clown in a kids movie, and he plays that part fine.The story is not disagreeable, if your a kid you'll probably like it. Another reviewer said that it would go down as one of the terrible movies of our time, like Howard the Duck, well I remember watching Howard the Duck on video when I was a kid, and I loved it! If I had watched this when I was a kid I would probably have loved this too.So credit to the writers and all involved for making a GOOD/fun kids movie. (I was going to say a GREAT/fun kids movie, then realized that this is NOT a GREAT kids movie, that would be going into the realms of the Goonies etc, but this movie is definitely worthy of pass marks)
TheLittleSongbird
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