Episode Forty-Three - Sky High (2005)
Failure to Franchise · Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
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Show Notes
In part two of "April Showers Bring April Powers," we're looking at Disney's mid-aughts superhero comedy, Sky High. With Kurt Russell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Danielle Panabaker, Kelly Preston, Bruce Campbell, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Kevin Heffernan, Lynda Carter, Jim Rash, Cloris Leachman, and even the voice of Patrick Warburton, it's one of the most impressively geek-friendly casts of all time. But was a pre-MCU audience ready for a movie designed to poke fun at tropes that hadn't yet fully entrenched themselves into the very core of the cinematic landscape? Well, we're covering the movie on this show, so you can probably guess at that one.