ZOOM Scores ZERO from RT Crix

When someone says "Ed Wood would have felt comfortable on this set," it is usually a sure indication of waste, and a sure fire RAZZIE nominee!!! 

Response from Head RAZZberry: With as many wretched movies as have come out this year (an average of more than one bad movie a week!) almost nothing is A Sure-Fire RAZZIE Contender for 2006. But the 1-2-3 combination of reviews, box office and word-of-mouth would all seem to be cosmically aligning for ZOOM to make it into multiple categories come next January... 

True...But as you said it has met and in some areas, exceeded in all 3 of the areas to achieve RAZZIE Greatness. You must admit the chances are WAY better than average it will get nominated in at least one category (If not several)!

Well Guys...after much begging and pleading on my part not to see the movie ZOOM...My wife and Kids (No relation the the Damon Wayans/defunct sitcom) along with myself (under much protest) saw Zoom this weekend (For $2.00 at the markdown Theater, Thank God). While it was slightly (and I mean only slightly) better than "Nacho Libre" and "The Benchwarmers" it was a major disappointment. I can why it was raked over the coals by Ebert & Company.

Let me explain a little further...

- You can definitely tell the director either did not care, or decided group directing by everybody else but himself was the best way to go. This decision may have been prompted by the Screenplay (see my next bullet)...

- As far as the screenplay goes, I think that one of 2 scenarios is possible here;

1) These geniuses did not properly research the Graphic Novel thoroughly enough to give the characters depth or emotions (because Zoom had a lot of personal $h!t that could have been way better developed than it was). In the end, they did not care.

2) The screenplay was actually done by "Princess Power"...with water colors!

- This has to be Chevy Chase's all time worst performance ever committed to celluloid! It was like he was on volume 11 for his entire performance, and was not even aware of what was going on around him. You can tell he was in it for one thing, and one thing only...The pay check!

- The only person who was even remotely doing a decent acting job was "Princess Power." None of the other "Zoom Kids" had even a remote idea what acting was!

- The only thing that had any redeeming quality was the soundtrack, with music by "Smashmouth." But there were almost no songs newly recorded for this movie...they were basically using stuff from their various albums that were released years ago.

I could go on and one...but why bother! In short, this movie could have been really good if someone at Revolution had given a DAMN and tried to do it right in the first place.

P.S. My wife and Kids (again, no relation to the Damon Wayans defunct sitcom) thought it was the best movie this year, and are now looking to buy the movie soundtrack (I hope they didn't bother to put one out!) and are looking forward to when ZOOM comes out on DVD -- If only to punish me some more!