There’s a fat one, a young girl, and two teenage kids who will be breaking Hollywood law if they don’t fall in love. Hewitt shows us a montage of scenes of four very different kids of varying ages.
The recruiting of these new superheroes is interestingly done. Everyone is on high alert, and the academy’s boss, Larraby (Rip Torn), thinks it’s best to bring Zoom back from his hermit hole so that he can train a bunch of new superheroes to take on Concussion and rid the world of this imposing threat. But it’s a major problem, because he’s the bad guy. Many years later, the superhero academy - the same one that trained Team Zenith - finds out that Concussion is returning to Earth, for whatever reason. And then everyone goes into hiding, including the movie’s scriptwriters. Concussion, the brother of the group’s leader, Zoom (Tim Allen), becomes a bad guy and kills its members - except Zoom. The government wants them to be harder, better, faster, stronger, and uses some enormous device, called the Gamma 13, to boost their powers. It has a good premise: A band of superheroes, called Team Zenith, falls victim to the government’s tampering with superhuman abilities. It’s unfortunate, though, because it has what it takes to be good. No matter which way you spin it, it’s not a good movie. It doesn’t have good music (almost every song is written and sung by Smash Mouth - give me a break). It doesn’t have characters who are worth a damn. Peter Hewitt takes everything Zoom could have been and makes it everything it’s not.
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