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By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Nerds love to debate which superhero movie is better, getting into downright nasty arguments about whether, for example, Avengers: Endgame or Sam Raimi’s first spider man They are the best films of the genre. As for all the true believers arguing over which high-flying movie to watch next, the best superhero movie has nothing to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The best superhero movie is, of course, high skyand streaming it on Disney+ right now is the best way to find out how beautifully this movie has aged.
The sky rises
the premise of high sky It’s simple: the film centers on a kind of superhero academy (the titular Sky High), where today’s talented young people train to be tomorrow’s superheroes and sidekicks. Our main character is the son of a superhero power couple who apparently has no powers of his own, making it difficult for him to fit in or find friends among all these talented kids. Finally, he discovers a power he didn’t know he had, but that may or may not be enough to stop a powerful enemy from the past who has found a new way to terrorize the present.
If you’re a fan of superheroes or genre media, the cast is a veritable “who’s who” of big names, including Kurt Russell as the Superman-like patriarch and Bruce Campbell as the world’s strangest gym teacher. Wonder Woman herself, Lynda Carter, plays the principal of Sky High, and Dave Foley plays a former classmate turned teacher alongside his classmates. children in the hallway alumnus Kevin McDonald (who plays a science teacher with a comically large head). As for the younger stars, the title character is played by Michael Angarano, who stars alongside future legends of the superhero genre Danielle Panabaker and Mary-Elizabeth Winstead.
At the box office, high sky It turned out to be a modest success, earning $86.4 million against a budget of $35 million. It was also a modest success with critics, as the film currently has a 74 percent critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Overall, those critics decreed that the film was a bit derivative but still managed to entertain from start to finish.
Why Sky High is the best
Now it’s time to address the caped elephant in the room: high sky It didn’t get the biggest box office in the world and it didn’t exactly thrill critics. So why do I call it the best superhero movie on Disney+, a streaming platform where you can watch the entire MCU at any time? On the one hand, this movie embraces the pure, silly fun of the genre. While the MCU was much more light-hearted than the DCEU (and thank goodness for that!), some of its best films often get buried under the weight of being too realistic or too story-heavy.
And for this long box lover, high sky is much stronger because it embraces the sillier side of comics instead of trying to look cool. The MCU has previously done annoying things like replacing the over-the-top Mandarin comic villain with a drug-addicted method actor and changing Ms. Marvel from a rubbery hero to one with light powers who would conveniently look less dumb on screen . Meanwhile, high sky has characters riding a school bus to an aerial academy and a superhero father who honestly considers throwing his son into a vat of toxic waste to help the young man finally develop powers.
high sky It’s not a perfect movie, of course, but each scene is better than the sum of its parts. It succeeds as a superhero movie, but it also works as a great comedy and a very unconventional coming-of-age story, offering the kind of great chemistry and character development that recent MCU films have severely lacked. Plus, the veteran actors have so much fun chewing the scenery that it guarantees you’ll never get bored before the credits roll.
Will you find? high sky gets the grade, or are you going to fail this movie and go see more Marvel movies? You won’t know until you stream it on Disney+. And if director Mike Mitchell has his way and manages to create a sequel set in the MCU, then this cinematic universe could get more of what it so desperately needs: laughs and heart.
