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Starring: Tim Allen, Courtney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, Dylan West,
Kate Mara, Ryan Newman, Rip Torn.
Director: Peter Hewitt
It is movies like this that turn TV has-beens into TV has-beens and Tim Allen and Courtney Cox both took a giant step in that direction with this dud. I would give one of the numerous examples of former TV stars who have had this fate befall them, but I can’t remember any of their names.
This is intended to be a family comedy version of the X-men series and that is not a bad idea. The problem here is that the movie is poorly written and Allen, who has built a career on playing likable characters, is saddled here with Jack Shepard, a former teen superhero who was taken advantage of by the military and now lives a bitter life of obscurity. Shepard is not very likable since he is bribed into training a new batch of teen talents into a super hero team to undertake a secret mission for a military commander that no one trusts, played by Rip Torn. Courtney Cox is Marsha Holloway, some kind of naïve liaison for the team, whose humour seems come chiefly from tripping over stuff. Yeah, real clever, that’s a gut-splitter, that is. Anyway, the four young stars do ok with the lame script, but there isn’t enough humour to make it funny, and the story is too poor for it be interesting, so all you have left is Ryan Newman, a really cute kid playing a little girl with Hulk-like strength. Still not strong enough to carry this movie, though, I’m afraid.
Hmmm, whom can I recommend this movie to? Well, lets see there is an old boss that I can’t stand. Nah, she never listened to me then, why would she listen now? I guess if you have little kids and there is nothing else on the rental shelf that they want, and you have something else to do while they watch. Yeah…then this movie is perfect.
