{"id":1754,"date":"2005-10-23T22:19:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T22:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1754.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","slug":"sky-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/10\/23\/sky-high\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Sky High<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will Stronghold is the son of Steve and Josie Stronghold&#8211;also known as The Commander and Jetstream, the world&#8217;s top superheroes.  &#8220;Sky High&#8221; is the school where superheroes (and sidekicks) are trained, and Will&#8217;s parents were both star pupils there.  They have high hopes for Will to join them in the family business (i.e. saving the world), but out of embarrassment Will hasn&#8217;t told them that he doesn&#8217;t actually have any powers yet.<\/p>\n<p>The film blends two genres very successfully:  the superhero film, and the (American) high school experience movie.  There is a villain in the piece, but she only plays a major role as such in the last twenty minutes or so.  The bulk of the film is about Will discovering who his friends are, and learning more about who <em>he<\/em> is.  It&#8217;s less like <i>The Incredibles<\/i> and more like <i>Buffy<\/i>.  In fact, it would make a great TV series.  Especially if they could keep hold of Bruce Campbell and Kevin McDonald, who both give tremedous cameo performances as Coach Boomer (&#8220;Sonic Boom&#8221;) and Mr. Medulla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Stronghold is the son of Steve and Josie Stronghold&#8211;also known as The Commander and Jetstream, the world&#8217;s top superheroes. &#8220;Sky High&#8221; is the school where superheroes (and sidekicks) are trained, and Will&#8217;s parents were both star pupils there. They have high hopes for Will to join them in the family business (i.e. saving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}