We had had spoof superhero films before but after The Incredibles there came a number of comedic films about the domestic and everyday lives of superheroes. Zoom: Academy for Superheroes is one of several films that came out in the wake of the huge success of Pixar’s The Incredibles (2004). Eventually through the mishaps that occur, he comes to develop a liking for the kids. However, Jack is burned-out and cynical and has no interest in training. Chosen for the team are six-year old Cindy Collins who has super-strength teenager Summer Jones who can levitate objects and read people’s thoughts teenager Dylan West who can become invisible and Tucker Williams who can expand his body like a giant balloon. He finds that he is to train a new team of superheroes, although is not told why. Jack, who has lost his powers and is now running a garage, is forcibly recruited by the military to head the Zenith Program at Area 52. In the present day, the military pick up evidence that the dimensional vortex where Connor is trapped has returned and is heading across country. However, experiments by the military using Gamma-13 radiation to enhance their superpowers caused Jack’s brother Connor alias Concussion to go rogue, killing the rest of the team. Zoom was nominated for one Razzie Award, Best Actor for Tim Allen (also nominated for The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and The Shaggy Dog), but he lost to the Wayans brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans for Little Man.Thirty years ago, Jack Shepard operated as Captain Zoom and led a team of superheroes. Released theatrically on Augby Columbia Pictures, the film was panned by critics and was a box office bomb, earning $12.5 million on a $75 million budget.

The film details a former superhero who is dragged into training four superpowered youths in becoming superheroes and combat an approaching threat. Based upon the children's book Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy by Jason Lethcoe, the film stars Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, and Rip Torn. Zoom (also known as Zoom: Academy for Superheroes) is a 2006 American superhero comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and written by Adam Rifkin and David Berenbaum.

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