When the zingers do work, it's usually because they're sarcastic or even mean-spirited most of these lines are spoken by Tim Allen's character, and, while they're mildly amusing at times, they're probably a little too edgy for younger kids. If the sequence described above sounds reminiscent of something from Mystery Men, it's because this film is very much in the same thematic vein as that underappreciated comedy, as well as more recent flicks like The Incredibles, Sky High, and this summer's My Super Ex-Girlfriend, wherein the extraordinary and the mundane collide when regular folks find themselves thrust into being costumed crime fighters. Despite whatever connotations its title might suggest, Zoom is a movie marked by pure laziness, made by folks who either don't know or don't care what they're doing. Not so with the filmmakers behind Zoom-they're clearly not doing anything extraordinary either, but they don't seem to have any delusions of grandeur. The pitiful thing is, these kids actually seem to think they're doing something super when they're clearly not. Preternatural powers like, say, blowing huge, poorly-animated bubbles of explosive mucus out of one nostril. A group of government scientists are holding "auditions" for a top-secret team of adolescent superheroes, and child after child steps up to the table and offers a demonstration of his or her preternatural powers. There's a scene near the beginning of Zoom that sums up the entire film quite nicely.
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