At first, things do not go well with Jack being bitter about the past and his sarcastic attitude disappoints Marsha. The project holds an audition of would-be members, and four are selected: Dylan West, a seventeen-year-old boy possessing invisibility, Summer Jones, a sixteen-year-old girl with telekinetic powers and empathic senses, Tucker Williams, a twelve-year-old boy who can enlarge and inflate himself at will and Cindy Collins, a six-year-old girl with super strength. In their secret base Area 52 (a reference to Area 51), he meets Marsha Holloway, who is a beautiful but clumsy psychologist, a big fan of Zoom's, and knows of him only through the comic book adaptations of the team's adventures. Larraby gives Jack the choice of a lengthy prison sentence should he refuse or a payment of $500,000 for training the team. Jack finds himself dragged back into the Project, this time as an instructor. General Larraby, the military officer in charge of the Project, decides to form a new Zenith Team to fight him. Ed Grant, the scientist behind the original Zenith Project, discovers that Concussion is making his way back into their dimension. Concussion was believed to have been destroyed by Zoom at the cost of his powers, but was sent into another dimension instead.
Thinking Zoom and the team betrayed him, Concussion killed his teammates Marksman, Ace, and Daravia. This made Zoom faster and stronger, but the gamma turned Concussion to the dark side. The American military sought to enhance the team's powers using an experimental form of radiation called "Gamma-13". Plotĭecades prior to the start of the film, the Zenith team are five young superheroes who fought to protect the world from evil, led by Jack Shepard ("Captain Zoom") and his older brother Connor Shepard ("Concussion"). Zoom was nominated for one Razzie Award, Worst 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. 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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