Sky High

What are you gonna do? Your mom and dad are the two greatest superheroes the world has known and you're entering a prestigious highly-elite high school for the gifted and you find out that you have no superpowers whatsoever. Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano) is exactly in this tight spot when he enters the Sky High. Being the only son of Commander Stronghold (Kurt Russel) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), expectations run high while the school bullies are watching his butt hoping he commits a blunder. Will gets entangled with Warren Peace (Steven Strait) a fire-throwing upperclassman whose dad was a supervillain that the Commander had imprisoned. Meanwhile his friendship with Layla (a plant-growing mutant) gets sour while he sorts out the best possible way to tell his parents that he is not a super like them. The Commander gets even more disheartened when he finds out that his son has been lumped together with the Sidekicks or Hero Support.

But as his name suggests, Will has more strength in his will than in his muscles and accepts his destiny. He teams up and befriends other school "losers" and together they take on a battle that makes them truly worth the name Superheroes (and Heroines!). Although this movie comes dangerously close to copy-catting the Hogwarts of Harry Potter and the cuteness of the Incredibles, it gets away with some touch of originality and human element in its plot. Acceptance of oneself, whether you are a super or not, is one of the redeeming values of this film. It's not the power that make you a super hero, its your attitude that does make you one, as Will didactically states in one scene.

All in all, this movie is fun to watch, especially during rainy days when you have nothing else to do.

Released: 2005.
Cast: Michael Angarano, Kurt Russel, Kelly Preston, Lynda Carter, Danielle Panabaker
Directed by: Mike Mitchell