Stylish but barely mediocre overall

A Disappointing Continuation

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This is the exact kind of movie that I like watching. This movie is very family friendly and I'd suggest it to anyone with young kids. I'm an adult and I really enjoyed it. I love that this movie plays to the dreams that many of us had as kids: superpowers. And of course, we are taught and shown that if we did have superpowers, they should be used for good. Sometimes the people that we think the least of needing a hero are the people that need one most. Sometimes we all need heroes, and even heroes need heroes. This movie shows that as a team, anything is achievable, and even the impossible is possible. Together we can accomplish everything.

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 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)

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).