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Sky High is a 2005 American superhero comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Paul Hernandez and Kim Possible creators Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle. The film stars Michael Angarano, Danielle Panabaker, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kelly Preston and Kurt Russell. It also features Bruce Campbell, Cloris Leachman, Jim Rash, Steven Strait, Lynda Carter, Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald. It tells the story of Will Stronghold, the son of two superheroes who is enrolled in an airborne high school for teenage superheroes where his powers kick in; he must deal with a growing distance from his old friends, a threat from a mysterious supervillain and get the girl of his dreams.

Sky High
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Mike Mitchell
Written by	Paul Hernandez Bob Schooley Mark McCorkle
Produced by	Andrew Gunn
Starring	Kelly Preston Michael Angarano Danielle Panabaker Mary Elizabeth Winstead Kurt Russell
Cinematography	Shelly Johnson
Edited by	Peter Amundson
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures Gunn Films
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release date	July 29, 2005 (2005-07-29)[1]
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$35 million[2]
Box office	$86.4 million[3]

The film was theatrically released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution on July 29, 2005, and grossed $86.4 million worldwide against a production budget of $35 million.[3] While it did receive generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, in the years since its release, its reputation has improved considerably, to the point of being regarded by some as a cult film.

Plot

High school freshman Will Stronghold is the son of world-renowned superheroes Steve "The Commander" and Josie "Jetstream" Stronghold but has no superpowers of his own. Upon arriving at Sky High, an airborne high school for future superheroes, freshmen with stronger powers are assigned to "Hero" courses; while Will, his longtime best friend Layla Williams, who can control plants, and others with weaker powers are assigned as socially outcast "Sidekicks". The school nurse tells Will that a child of two superheroes may never gain powers. Will and Layla begin taking the Sidekick curriculum, where they befriend the other sidekicks. One evening, Will confesses to Steve that he has no powers, but Josie eventually convinces her husband not to worry.

One day at lunch, Will accidentally runs afoul of the pyrokinetic Warren Peace, whose supervillain father Steve incarcerated. After a brawl, Warren threatens Will's friends, and Will's paternal super strength awakens. Will is moved to the Hero curriculum and is partnered with technopath Gwen in a "mad science" class. As they grow closer, Will spends less time with the sidekicks. He asks Layla to meet for dinner to make up for lost time but forgets this when Gwen unexpectedly visits his house and invites Steve and Josie to be guests of honor at the homecoming dance. Will walks Gwen home, where she gets him to ask her to homecoming. Warren finds Layla stood up and encourages her to ask Will to homecoming, but upon learning the next day that Will is going with Gwen, Layla and Warren plan to go together to make Will jealous.

Gwen tricks Will into hosting a party at his house. Will takes her to his parents' Secret Sanctum, and while they kiss, one of Steve and Josie's battle mementos, Royal Pain's Pacifier, is stolen. Layla enters the party, but Gwen lies by saying that Will wants nothing to do with her. Will breaks up with Gwen upon learning about the girls' exchange and refuses to go to homecoming, but he soon discovers one of his parents' old yearbooks has a photo of a girl named Sue Tenny holding the Pacifier. Seeing a resemblance between her and Gwen and realizing that the Pacifier is gone, Will deduces that Gwen is Royal Pain's daughter. During the "Hero of the Year" award presentation for Steve and Josie, Gwen unveils herself as Royal Pain and uses the Pacifier to turn almost everyone into babies. Layla, Warren, and the sidekicks escape, and they reunite with Will, who apologizes for his behavior and kisses Layla. As Will goes to face Gwen, the sidekicks defeat her henchmen, and Layla learns that Gwen sabotaged the school's anti-gravity generator.

Gwen informs Will that she is Sue Tenny, who was turned into a baby when the Pacifier backfired during her first battle with Steve and Josie and now intends to raise the de-aged superheroes as villains. She and Will fight until she throws him off the school, but he survives when his maternal flight power awakens. Will defeats Gwen, but the school starts falling. Will tries to slow the school's descent as sidekick Magenta uses her guinea pig shapeshifting powers to access and repair the generator. The Pacifier is reconfigured to restore its targets' normal ages, and Steve and Josie give their award to the sidekicks, declaring them full-fledged heroes. The party resumes in celebration, and Will and Layla kiss in midair. Will narrates what happened to the villains, how bus driver Ron Wilson got his own superpowers, and that, in the end, "my girlfriend became my archenemy, my archenemy became my best friend, and my best friend became my girlfriend".

Cast

• Michael Angarano as William "Will" Theodore Stronghold, a freshman at Sky High, whose parents are two famous superheroes — Commander and Jetstream — as well as Maxville's top real estate agents in their secret identities. His super strength, inherited from his father, and his ability to fly, inherited from his mother, start as inactive and gradually manifest over the film.
• Kurt Russell as Steve Stronghold / The Commander, Will's father who is one of the world's strongest superheroes, displaying superhuman strength and invulnerability, and is a successful businessman in his secret identity.
• Kelly Preston as Josie DeMarco-Stronghold / Jetstream, Will's mother and a successful real estate agent. As Jetstream, she uses the power of supersonic flight; she is also touted as being an expert in hand-to-hand combat.
• Danielle Panabaker as Layla Williams, Will's childhood best friend and later girlfriend, who is a pacifist and can animate and control plant life.
• Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Gwendolyn "Gwen" Grayson / Royal Pain / Susan "Sue" Tenny, a technopathic senior at Sky High whom Will, along with everyone else, falls in love with. Winstead said of her role, "I bounced around. I was either the hero of the sidekicks or the sidekick to the heroes."[4] When she attended Sky High the first time, no one understood her class of powers and she was slated as a sidekick and a weirdo, eventually turning into a supervillain. An accident with the "Pacifier" de-aged her during a battle with The Commander.
  • Patrick Warburton provides the voice of Gwen in her Royal Pain suit.
• Steven Strait as Warren Peace, the pyrokinetic son of supervillain Baron Battle, who is in jail with four life sentences, and an unnamed superhero mother.
• Dee Jay Daniels as Ethan Bank / Popsicle, a sidekick and one of Will's friends, who can melt into a fluid.
• Kelly Vitz as Magenta "Maj" Lewis, one of Will's sidekick friends, who can shapeshift into a guinea pig with purple highlights and streaks in her fur similar to those in her human hair.
• Nicholas Braun as Zachary "Zach" Braun / Zack Attack, a sidekick Will's childhood friend, who has the ability to glow in the dark.
• Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq as Penny Lent, Gwen's athletic best friend, who can duplicate herself.
• Jake Sandvig as Lash, a skinny bully at Sky High who has elasticity.
• Will Harris as Speed, an overweight bully at Sky High who can move at superhuman speeds.
• Lynda Carter as Principal Powers, the principal of Sky High.
• Bruce Campbell as Tommy Boomowski / Coach Boomer / Sonic Boom, the gym teacher at Sky High who has can release sonic waves from his vocal cords.
• Kevin Heffernan as Ron Wilson, Sky High's good-hearted bus driver. He is the son of two superheroes, but does not have any powers.
• Cloris Leachman as Nurse Spex, Sky High's elderly, eccentric but kind school nurse, who has the ability of x-ray vision.
• Jim Rash as Mr. Grayson / Stitches, Royal Pain's cackling sidekick, who raised her as his daughter after she was turned into a baby by the Pacifier.
• Dave Foley as Mr. Jonathan Boy / All-American Boy, The Commander's former sidekick who works as Hero Support teacher at Sky High.
• Kevin McDonald as Professor Medulla, the Mad Science teacher with an oversized brain, which grants him advanced intelligence, creativity, and a multitude of genius-level skills.
• Tom Kenny and Jill Talley as Mr. and Mrs. Chester Timmerman, a couple who witnesses Will prevent Sky High from falling on their new home.
• Loren Berman as "Big" Larry, a socially awkward student who can turn into a giant, muscular rock monster at will.
• Dustin Ingram as Carbon Copy Kid, a student that can shapeshift to look like anyone.
• Nicole Malgarini as Freeze Girl, a student with cryokinetic powers.

Production

Exterior shots of the Sky High school were filmed at the Oviatt Library[5] at California State University in Northridge in late 2004.[6]

In between working on the first and second seasons of the animated series Kim Possible, creators Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle had begun writing a script for a live-action adaptation, which ultimately never came to fruition.[7] Impressed with their work, the filmmakers asked them to look into re-writing the script for Sky High, which had been previously shelved.[7] McCorkle believes they were recruited for Sky High because "they liked the idea of a superhero high school. I think, reading how we wrote teens in Kim Possible, they felt like, 'This feels good and contemporary, and maybe you can apply that to this project for us.'[7] Similar to Kim Possible, Schooley and McCorkle wrote Sky High to be equally appealing to both children and adults.[7] According to scifi.com, Disney was attracted by the "original concept" of "children of superheroes going to high school", originally conceived by screenwriter Paul Hernandez in the 1990s.[8]

After recruiting Schooley and McCorkle to update Hernandez's script (they only wrote the beginning and ending sequences) Disney hired several comedians such as Kevin McDonald, Dave Foley, and Kevin Heffernan for supporting roles.[8] For the main roles, the casting was a mix of established and new teenage actors: while Michael Angarano and Mary Elizabeth Winstead were already successful, Danielle Panabaker was little-known and former model Steven Strait was hired after his first audition ever.[8]

Director Mike Mitchell said that Sky High functions on two premises: "the adults are all insane" and "the girls are smarter than the boys":[9] the adults portrayed in the film tend to be caricatured, while the teenage girls are written as more assertive and powerful than the boys. The film also employed extensive usage of Dutch angles. For the treatment of the teenage actors, Mitchell also stated that the actors all had their own trailers and were generally kept separated, because "we did not want them to date after the second week and break up after the fourth", which would have made filming difficult.[9]

Mitchell, a science fiction fan, admitted that this project "was a dream", because it brought him together with four of his favorite SF cult heroes: Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter), Snake Plissken actor Kurt Russell, Ash Williams actor Bruce Campbell, and Cloris Leachman, who earned fame as Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein.[8]

Music

Sky High (Original Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released	July 26, 2005
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	46:28
Label	Hollywood Records
Singles from Sky High (Original Soundtrack)
"I Melt with You" Released: 2005

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[10]

The soundtrack album for the film was released by Hollywood Records on July 26, 2005, and is composed of covers of songs from the 1980s (with the exception of "Just What I Needed", which was from 1978). While none of the film's score, composed by Michael Giacchino, was included on the album, a limited edition of his score was released by Intrada Records in 2017.[11]

Track listing

1. "I Melt with You" – Bowling for Soup (Originally by: Modern English) - 4:03
2. "Through Being Cool" – They Might Be Giants (Originally by: Devo) - 3:17
3. "Save It for Later" – Flashlight Brown (Originally by: The Beat) - 2:49
4. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" – Christian Burns (Originally by: Tears for Fears) - 4:28
5. "One Thing Leads to Another" – Steven Strait (Originally by: The Fixx) - 3:10
6. "Lies" – The Click Five (Originally by: Thompson Twins) - 2:58
7. "Voices Carry" – Vitamin C (Originally by: 'Til Tuesday) - 4:16
8. "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" – Elefant (Originally by: The Smiths) - 2:53
9. "True" – Cary Brothers (Originally by: Spandau Ballet) - 5:11
10. "Just What I Needed" – Caleigh Peters (Originally by: The Cars) - 3:38
11. "Can't Stop the World" – Ginger Sling (Originally by: The Go-Go's) - 3:25
12. "And She Was" – Keaton Simons (Originally by: Talking Heads) - 3:49
13. "Twist and Crawl" – Skindred (Originally by: The Beat) - 2:31

Reception

AllMusic rated the album 2.5/5, saying that it "stumbles more than it succeeds" and is "painfully conventional."[10]

Release

Home media

The film was released in separate widescreen and full screen format editions on DVD on November 29, 2005. It was also released on VHS but only through Disney Movie Club, making it the final live-action Disney film to be released on VHS. It was also released on high definition Blu-ray for an original widescreen presentation on November 21, 2006.

Reception

Box office

On an estimated budget of US$35 million,[2] the film grossed just under $64 million in the US, and another $22 million internationally, bringing the total to $86 million.[3]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 73% based on reviews from 131 critics, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critical consensus states: "This highly derivative superhero coming-of-age flick is moderately entertaining, family-friendly fluff."[12] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 62 based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[13] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade A− on a scale of A+ to F.[14]

Joe Leydon of Variety magazine praised the film calling it: "Smartly written and sprightly played, Sky High satisfies with a clever commingling of spoofy superheroics, school-daze hijinks" and "this lively live-action Disney release stands on its own merits as a tongue-in-cheek fantasy with cross-generational appeal."[15] Neil Smith at BBC.com wrote: "While originality is hardly the film's strongest suit, its agreeable mix of knowing spoof and kid-pleasing fantasy makes it considerably more engaging than some of the 'straight' superhero blockbusters we've suffered recently."[16]

See also

• Hero High
• PS238
• Zoom
• My Hero Academia
• The Magic Roundabout
• Up, Up and Away

References

External links

• Official website
• Sky High at AllMovie
• Sky High at the American Film Institute Catalog
• Sky High at Box Office Mojo
• Sky High at IMDb
• Sky High at the TCM Movie Database

На других языках

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- [en] Sky High (2005 film)

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[ru] Высший пилотаж (фильм, 2005)

«Вы́сший пилота́ж» («Небесная высь») (англ. Sky High) — американская семейная фантастическая комедия 2005 года, снятая режиссёром Майком Митчелом. В центре сюжета находится Уилл Стронгхолд — обычный подросток из семьи супергероев, который собирается поступить в специальный колледж, где обучают людей с необычными способностями. Главные роли в фильме исполнили Майкл Ангарано, Даниэль Панабэйкер, Курт Рассел и Келли Престон.

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