For our last superhero film of Marathon May, we take things in a whole different direction and watch Sky High, a teen film that feels like a Disney Channel Original Movie but was actually released in theaters with moderate success. Katie and Wesleigh describe their dream super powers and then discuss pressures put on high schoolers, how much this parallels Harry Potter, orphanages for baby villains, and why Katie still thinks Kurt Russell is in Dirty Dancing.
Show Notes
IMDb: Sky High (2005)
Rotten Tomatoes: 73%
Rated: PG
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
“Jim” the camera
Snoopy’s brother in the desert
Choose Your Own Adventure
Not Sponsored by OPI nail polish
Knock-off Taylor Lautner (Steven Strait)
Ramona Flowers and the MPDG / Eternal Sunshine episode
Plumbing the Death Star podcast
Sky High soundtrack
Send us pictures of your babies!
Movies/Shows Mentioned
- That’s So Raven
- The Office
- Early Edition
- Friday Night Lights (TV show)
- Twilight
- Harry Potter
- Mean Girls
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Wonder Woman (TV show)
- Community
- Perks of Being a Wallflower
- How to be Single
- Whisky Tango Foxtrot
- Poltergeist
- The Watch
- The Crown
- Spider-Man
- Arrested Development
- Dirty Dancing
- Overboard
- Splash
- Hateful Eight
- Fate of the Furious
- Death proof
- Vanilla Sky
- Forrest Gump
- Backdraft
- Family Vacation movies
- Watchmen
- Glee
