Review of Sky High (2005) by Vandermm — 04 Nov 2015

In the movie Sky High, Will Stronghold is a rising freshman at Sky High School. The school is for people that have super powers and there, they decide if you are a main superhero or just a sidekick. Will does not truly know his super powers when he enters the school so he ends up being put as a sidekick. Will had to hide this from his parents because Will's parents are the world's two best superheroes: The Commander, his dad and Jetstream, his mom. The moral of this film is just because someone says you are not special, it doesn’t mean it’s true. Everyone is special in their own way. The film was able to disguise a great meaning throughout the entire movie.

All the superhero characters are built like popular jock athletes. They are fit, good looking, and jerks to the sidekicks. When you look at them, you think of the popular kids from high school. Some of the superhero's powers are super speed, strength, flying and duplication. They act as though the sidekicks do not exist and pick on them for not being good enough. Warren Peace is Will’s bully and one of the superheros. He has the slicked back hair, leather jacket and can get all the girls he wants. He knows he’s “all-that” and carries himself higher than the sidekicks but even a lot of the other superheros. They think they are superior to others and hold themselves on a pedestal. The sidekicks on the other hand, are the dorky, weird, overweight kids. They do not look physically like a superhero but more like an normal person. They do not believe in themselves, and they that their powers are not important since the superheroes tell them that they are useless. Some of the sidekicks power are to turning into a guinea pig, melting into goo, controlling planet life. Magenta is a side kick who can turn into a Guinea Pig when under pressure. This power is fitting for her since she is shy and timid of everyone and when she turns into a guinea pig she becomes even more skittish and smaller. The school makes sure that the superheroes get all the nice stuff, great teachers and get the praise and glory. On the other hand, the sidekicks get stuffed into a small classroom with a former sidekick that's crazy. They do not get any attention from the school and are treated like worthless students.

Will has to deal with being brushed to the side and is bullied. Since he does not have a power yet, everyone makes fun of him since his parents were great superheroes but yet they had an average kid. One day, Will's whole life changed when he got picked on one superhero. Will ends up shoving the guy into the wall with his super strength. Will finally finds his true super power, and he moves up to the new social class, a superhero. Will forgets about his sidekick friends and acts like he is too good for them since he is a superhero now. He becomes a snob and becomes one of the stereotypical jerk superheroes. Will has a crush on one of the sidekick girls, Layla. But as soon as he becomes a superhero, he ignores her and acts like she does not mean anything to him. He instead falls in love with a girl named Gwen who's another superhero. He gets seduced by her because of her charming looks. She's portrayed as the perfect girlfriend for him because she's a superhero, attractive and she's the most popular girl in the school. It's ends up backfiring on him because Gwen was just using him and turned out to be an villain. Will fell for the attractive older high school superhero Gwen when he should have stayed with the shy, timid, and social awkward Layla because her style is more like him. Will didn't really know Gwen but he decided to date her because she helped him become popular and he liked the attention that everyone gave him.He got caught up on the popularity instead of staying true to his roots and morals.

In the end, Gwen tries to take over Sky High and the so called superheroes jerks helped her. With Gwen turning out to be a evil person and trying to take over Sky High, that shows that there’s no such thing as a perfect person like Will thought she was. He thought she was smart, pretty and perfect but as we know in life, no one is perfect and everyone is always hiding something. So the only people left to save the day are the sidekicks and Will. The sidekicks don't believe at first that they can stop the villains since their whole life they have been told that they are nothing and that they aren't true superheroes. In this scene, the sidekicks are frantic and Will has to convince all the sidekicks that they actually are super and that they can take down the villains. The sidekicks were always made fun of and said that they aren't actually "super" but at the end of the day, they saved everyone at Sky High. They showed everyone that sidekicks could be just like superheroes and that there shouldn't be such division between the two social classes.