Zoom tried unsuccessfully to capture the magic of the X-men by becoming of rip-off of them and thank the Helmet of Magneto and Beast's hair this didn't happen and the movie failed both commercially, making only 12,5 million from a 35 million budget and critically with critics and general audience dismissing it as superhero movie and as a flick in general. In short don't bother watching it and now I will spoil you why it failed so dramatically.Firstly the person who plays the mentor is presented as a old superhero who after a tragic accident he quieted, but not for even one second while he was teaching ,I didn't see him as a professor and he was quit incompetent to find out that his main villain was his friend all along. Also why didn't he think that this doctor who say that she admire him and see him and his students at a daily based ,that she also has powers?Now to the students, kids with no interest to act and their personalities are so overused that I can't say if are good types or brads. And that is an issue because if you can not see the characters on the scene as unique people why bother to route for them? As for the "powers" ,I will only say that you have a girl with telekinesis, her boyfriend who has super strength and two other that I don't bother remembering and the effects are so lame that, those in Power Rangers look much nicer and cooler!! Finally the villain is a rip-off version of the Reverse Flash and has no further goal what so ever apart from killing the teacher who hates him just for hat sake. Yes , Thorne hate Flash ,but he did it because he was admire him and when he see him in the flesh he was disappointed. So Reverse Flash wins!Inconclusion this flick could be called "An X-men rip-off in order to capitalize from their success" and it would make no difference to me. The X-men aren't loved with armies of fans around the world due to their appearance ,but because they are a metaphor for the human rights , diversity and the nice personalities who live in their universe help the viewer to relate to them.

Zoom (2006): Dir: Peter Hewitt / Cast: Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Spencer Breslin, Chevy Chase, Kate Mara: About as exciting as slamming your hand in a car door. In a film that manages to be even worse than Sky High, Tim Allen plays retired superhero Captain Zoom who must whip into shape a bunch of misfit kids with super powers to fight his arch enemy brother. I've had diarrhea spells that were more fetching than the special effects created here. Directed by Peter Hewitt who also made the mediocre Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, which at least had the decency to have good special effects. This film looks like a really bad chemistry experiment. Tim Allen survives the nightmare only due to background superpower incident and the task before him. Otherwise the screenplay would make better toilet paper. Courteney Cox plays a lab coat female obsessed with comic books. She should be obsessed with finding a better agent. Chevy Chase reminds us that he was funny in the 1980's but here as the bumbling scientist clearly the joke is on him. Spencer Breslin has been featured in several films with Allen including The Santa Clause 2 and The Shaggy Dog. Here he plays a kid who can oversize his body parts. Kate Mara plays a girl with telekinesis that is not half as interesting as Carrie White. That sounds wrong on so many levels. Frankly someone should zoom over this film with a tractor trailer. Score: ½ / 10

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).

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.