24. Poseidon

              Ah Disaster movies… They are the endless tales of the struggles of ordinary humans up against extraordinary odds.  Whether it’s an asteroid heading to earth or an outbreak of twisters in Oklahoma, I am sucker for this genre of movies.

  Poseidon is a remake of the classic Poseidon Adventure. This time instead of Gene Hackman in the starring role we get another basketball coach in the form of Josh Lucas (of Glory Road and Sweet Home Alabama fame) who plays Dylan. Dylan is an ex-navy officer who happens to be on the world’s largest cruise ship--The Poseidon. The passengers on the Poseidon have just celebrated the New Year when DISASTER hits in the form of a rogue wave. This rogue wave hits the ship and causes it to capsize but with people still alive on board. What will they do!??!?! How will they survive?!?!  WHAT IS FERGIE DOING IN THIS MOVIE!!??!!?

                We quickly learn that Dylan is a loner and an expert on ships. He decides he is not staying in the grand ballroom where they have been promised that “everyone will be safe”. He decides that he is going to climb up the bottom of the ship to get out on top which is now the bottom but is really the top now. Before he goes he is joined by our main core group of survivors including Kurt Russell, his daughter Emmy Rossum (of other disaster movies such as Day After Tomorrow and Phantom of the Opera), her fiancé and Richard Dreyfuss. They face many terrors on the path to the top. I won’t ruin the ending.

                I know what I describe sounds ludicrous, but it is a great action movie. Poseidon was directed but Wolfgang Peterson who also did Air Force One and the Perfect Storm. It is worth watching.

Final Verdict: As a huge fan of this genre it would be a Disaster not to own it!

22. Sky High

               Who are your parents? Mine are not super heroes.  So with that fact I guess I will never be attending Sky High--the high school for off springs of Super Heroes. 

                Sky High follows Will Stronghold the child of The Commander (super strong) and Jetstream (she can fly) who embarks on his first day at Sky High. By this time most children of super heroes already know what their super power is. They range from the normal, Super Stretch, to the not so normal, become a Gerbil. But poor Will, the child of the two most famous super heroes, doesn’t even know his power yet. So he is downgraded to Side Kick classes. But that doesn’t last long. Will soon finds out that he is super strong like his father

Our Hero!

                Sky High is like most high schools. There are bullies, teachers who are mean, and the popular girls. The only difference is that in this high school when you make enemies, you literally make enemies. The arch kind! Will and friends must save the school from a group of students who are trying to take over all the super children. The movie is really funny, well acted, lots of action and really clean family film. I love this movie. 

Final Verdict: A Must own! 

Other tidbits:

-Jim Rash who plays the sidekick to the main evil guy Stitches is also the Dean from Community!

-Lots of alum from the comedy troupe Kids in the Hall play small roles in this movie.