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Saw Sky High yesterday. In general, I liked it. The plot was a bit too by-the-numbers, but I felt it was a fairly clever combination of standard "coming of age Disney movies" of the sort Kurt Russell used to be in as the kid rather than as the dad (and he's in another Disney movie coming up as the dad, this one about a race horse).
I don't think it's a ripoff of PS238. If nothing else, development time on major studio movies is so long it probably had to be in development before there was a PS238 to rip off. And, really, you could say that both it and PS238 were ripoffs of Hero High (a 70s SatAM cartoon, IIRC), if you want to go looking for first use of concept. Anyway, Sky High is sufficiently different from PS238 that I don't see theft.
( Some spoilery discussion )
Oh, and Kieron Dwyer did the comic-style art for various flashbacks and the end credits. I'm kinda surprised they went with such a distinctive but non-'hot' art style. It's not Kirby-ish, nor is it Image-style. In fact, very few others draw anything like Dwyer (who I was first exposed to when he drew the Captain America comic in the 1980s, the John Walker run), and it's not like Dwyer's got a hot book out right now (that I've noticed).
I don't think it's a ripoff of PS238. If nothing else, development time on major studio movies is so long it probably had to be in development before there was a PS238 to rip off. And, really, you could say that both it and PS238 were ripoffs of Hero High (a 70s SatAM cartoon, IIRC), if you want to go looking for first use of concept. Anyway, Sky High is sufficiently different from PS238 that I don't see theft.
( Some spoilery discussion )
Oh, and Kieron Dwyer did the comic-style art for various flashbacks and the end credits. I'm kinda surprised they went with such a distinctive but non-'hot' art style. It's not Kirby-ish, nor is it Image-style. In fact, very few others draw anything like Dwyer (who I was first exposed to when he drew the Captain America comic in the 1980s, the John Walker run), and it's not like Dwyer's got a hot book out right now (that I've noticed).
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