Talk:Sky High (2005 film)

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Contents 1 This is crap 2 Picture not working 3 Lash & Speed = Flash & Elongated Man 4 Based On 5 Cyclops 6 Missing part of the Synopsis? 7 Goofs 8 CLEAN UP 9 POWERS-CLEANUP 10 Major cleanup needed 11 Army of Darkness reference in Coach Boomer's name? 12 Could someone answer this?

[edit] This is crap

Sorry, I got addicted to the phrase after Jimbo used it referring to Bill Gates and Jane Fonda. Seriously, though, it is. Much of the article is speculation. "Presumably"? "Evidently"? "Likely"? "Apparently"? And worse of all..."Speculatively"? The plot summary has a lot of potential but is highly unencyclopedic. Who decides which quotes are memorable and which aren't? And the trivia section is definitely unencyclopedic. In short, this article is in need of a lot of cleanup. Johnleemk | Talk 14:46, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

In particular there was no indication that I could see in the movie that saving the day would in any way lead to a change in how "Hero Support" was educated. In fact The Commander complements All-American Boy on the great job he's been doing and tells him to keep it up. DavidJohns 08:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Don't just moan about it, be bold and change it yourself. Jacobshaven3 10:58, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

The article has been cleaned up a bit since October 15, 2005. Shannernanner 08:28, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture not working

The picture is not working. 130.111.98.131 18:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

The image server is down for maintenance. When it comes back, images should load faster than ever. Johnleemk | Talk 19:40, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lash & Speed = Flash & Elongated Man

Of course the powers of Lash can be based on Mr. Fantastic (or Plastic Man), and the powers of Speed can be based on every speedster in superherodom (the various flashes, Quicksilver, Whizzer...) but only one speedster and one elastic hero were close friends and teamed-up frequently. In the movie Lash and Speed always appear together, it's obvious they are more close friends to each other than to the other members of the Royal Pain team, and they team-up in the "save the citicen", so I think you may consider them together when looking for references. And when you consider Lash and Speed together they only can be based on Flash II and the Elongated Man. Elongated Man (Ralph Dinby) was introduced in the Flash comic (in Flash 112) and appeared in several issues of this series aiding the Flash (Barry Allen)in his cases and in his own stories in a backup feature, he and Barry Allen were close friends and was Barry who vouched for him to be accepted in the JLA.

[edit] Based On

The entries stating that 'Movie Character A is based upon Comic Book Character B' should have some backing, otherwise they should read 'Movie Character A has powers similar to those of Comic Book Character B', unless specific statements have been made by Disney to explain these items otherwise stated as fact.--RedKnight 21:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Also, why are "The Incredibles" characters used as references? Aren't they already influenced by existing comic super heroes? Saying that they influenced anything in Sky High seems redundant.AceWhatever 21:41, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cyclops

The entry stating 'The boy who zaps Ice Girl’s behind uses a laser optic blast much like X-Man Cyclops' is not entirely correct. It is important to make the distinction that Cyclops optic blast is a force blast, not a laser or heat vision similar to Superman. I believe the scene is definitely a display of hot versus cold, so perhaps the relationship to Cyclops should be replaced by Superman.--RedKnight 21:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing part of the Synopsis?

Is there a missing part of the synopsis? The description of Will discovering his flight powers obviously compares the situation to discovering other abilities earlier, but there's no mention of said discovery. I haven't seen the movie yet, so I'm only guessing here.MythicFox 09:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Goofs

Could someone clean up the Goofs section, perhaps re-writing it so it's no longer a cut and paste of the 'Goofs' page over at the IMDB?--MythicFox 13:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

It should also be wikified... like bold for the titles... Cbrown1023 14:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CLEAN UP

Ok, now, this post is way too long. We have an entire character list for their powers, and an entire list for their links to comic roots. Is this necessary? Can't some of these be moved into seperate articles, or at least organised? Jacobshaven3 21:00, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POWERS-CLEANUP

Could someone possible create a table for it, it just looks messy right now. Another possibility is to move the information to sub-pages. Cbrown1023 14:35, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major cleanup needed

This article really needs some cleanup. It starts off ok, but then ballons out to a HUGE chunk of in-universe info useless in reality (see WP:WAF), most importantly lacks any section dealing with production, reception, cast comments etc (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Films/Style_guidelines) and ends it with a bunch of borderline OR (see WP:NOR). I appreciate the sheer mass of heart put into this effort, but this article would be IMHO 400% better if it was condensed to 40% of its length. How to do it better, see e.g. X-Men 3 or Star Wars, which have been explicitly flagged as "good articles". I don't expect anyone to make it THAT good, but this film definitely deserves better. Onomatopoeia 23:18, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

I've cut down what I could instantly see needed to be donw (the two cast / character lists combined, like how done with the X-Men 3 article. I'll have a look soon in the trivia section to clean it up. Jacobshaven3 02:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Army of Darkness reference in Coach Boomer's name?

Since this film has at least one acknowledged in-joke relating to Lynda Carter, does anyone know if Bruce Campbell's character, Coach Boomer (or, to be more accurate, Campbell's casting as Boomer) might be a reference to his famed use of a boomstick as Ash? Might be worth mentioning. 23skidoo 15:43, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Could someone answer this?

Could someone please, please, please, please, PLEASE answer this: what is that song that plays at the beginning? I swear, it's starting to drive me INSANE.Hondasaregood 21:48, 15 December 2006 (UTC)