Sky High: Critic Reviews

The flick is best in its bittier moments (watch for the stellar cameos), and there's nothing to trouble the tots.

This zippy Disney adventure-comedy asks that age-old question, 'Is there life after high school?,' and answers it with a cheerful 'Not really.'

Harmless family comedy with welcomely loopy asides.

Director Mike Mitchell deftly blends two genres -- the high school romance and the special-effects-laden superhero comic book adaptation -- and manages to spoof yet salute both with a refreshing lack of pretension.

This is, indeed, another teen flick, a spotty, stodgily directed, though occasionally clever one, with several cardboard performances.

My 12-year-old self would have liked this movie a lot. The 25-year-old me likes it a bit more than he cares to admit.

Sky High hasn't a single original idea in its bird brain.

Takes camp to new levels of self-aware mediocrity.

The clever script finds the fun while Michael Angarano keeps the emotions real as a kid who learns that real friends don't care if you're a star.

Cheesy as it is, the family comedy Sky High doesn't even approximate the texture of Kraft plastic-wrapped singles.

A clever, cotton-candy- light self-parody to the superhero genre that's both effective and refreshing.

Sky High is a diverting family comedy that at its best aims to be a live-action Incredibles and at its middling a live-action episode of Kim Possible.

The creators of Sky High have their finger expertly placed on their movie's pulse.

A good-natured and witty mix of two modern film genres, Sky High is classic Disney filmmaking -- fanciful, family-friendly and, most importantly, fun.

This movie about a high school for superheroes is so good-natured and self-deprecating that it's virtually impossible to dislike the thing.

Smartly written and sprightly played, Sky High satisfies with a clever commingling of spoofy superheroics, school-daze hijinks, and family friendly coming-of-age dramedy.

High schoolers (who are shown chugging only soda pop at a supposedly rowdy party) will rule this movie lame, though early grade-schoolers might bite.

The formula fizzles when you skimp on the ingredients. Sky High never achieves liftoff.

Funny, clever and even a bit inspirational, hinting at the potential for heroism in all of us.

An engaging and surprisingly sharp allegory about high-school hierarchies and adolescent growing pains.

Sky High is funny, smart, energetic, subversive, and has a few substantive things to say.

A likable mix of laughs and wacky action sequences.

Sky High is too hopelessly contrived for its actors to be able to make it work.

Cartoony high school superhero drama; OK for tweens.