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Zoom (also known as Zoom: Academy for Superheroes) is a 2006 American superhero comedy film directed by Peter Hewitt and written by Adam Rifkin and David Berenbaum. Based upon the children's book Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy by Jason Lethcoe, the film stars Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Spencer Breslin, and Rip Torn. It features a former superhero who is dragged into training four superpowered youths to become superheroes and combat an approaching threat.
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| Story by | Adam Rifkin
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| Based on | Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy
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| Running time | 88 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $75.6 million
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| Box office | $12.5 million
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Cindy Collins: It's my alter eggo.
Jack Shepard: You mean your "alter ego"?
Cindy Collins: I'm a princess.
Jack Shepard: Cindy, you're not a princess.
Cindy Collins: But I look pretty.
Jack Shepard: Yeah, but pretty girls don't have any real friends and they never get any respect. Take Miss Holloway, for instance.
Marsha Holloway: Hey.
Dr. Grant: (Cindy throws the 2.5-ton object) Scatter...
- Rupert Gregson-Williams was hired to compose the film's score, but he had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict with Over the Hedge (2006). He was replaced by Christophe Beck.
- When Tim Allen belches, he says, "I don't remember eating that", a line he used in "Home Improvement" (1991), and also as his character Buzz Lightyear in the bloopers at the end of Toy Story 2 (1999).
- Rupert Gregson-Williams was hired to compose the film's score, but he had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict with Over the Hedge (2006). He was replaced by Christophe Beck.
- In the only photo of the old Zenith team, in addition to Tim Allen (Zoom) and Kevin Zegers (Concussion), the other teammates are portrayed by Alexis Bledel (Ace?), Wilmer Valderrama (Marksman?) and Devon Aoki (Daravia?).
- The DVD cover shows Zoom (Tim Allen) clean shaven. He always appears in the movie with a mustache and goatee.
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