Does Sky High hold up?

Let’s find out:

So we start off by meeting Will Stronghold (Michael Angarano). We then meet Will’s parents (Steve Stronghold / The Commander (Kurt Russell) and Josie DeMarco-Stronghold / Jetstream (Kelly Preston)). Will is about to attend Sky High; but, he does not possess any superpowers.

Will is friends with Layla Williams (Danielle Panabaker). We meet bullies Speed (Will Harris), Lash (Jake Sandvig) and Penny Lent (Malika Haqq and Khadijah Haqq). We also meet technopath Gwen Grayson (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Will has a crush on her.

Will is chosen as a sidekick instead of a superhero because he does not possess any superpowers. Steve lets Will see Royal Pain’s Pacifier.

Will has an enemy in the form of pyrokinetic Warren Peace (Steven Strait). Warren and Will share beef because Will’s father arranged for the imprisonment of Warren’s father. Will finds out that he has super-strength. 

Will becomes a hero, he starts hanging out with Gwen and her clique and he kind of ditches Layla and the sidekicks, and…

You have seen this in a million teen movies.

Anyway, we find out that Layla has unrequited love for Will. Gwen asks Will’s parents to come to the Homecoming dance and she (Gwen) becomes closer with Will and his parents (mainly Will… we hope).

Gwen has Will throw the most PG/the most Disney-ified teen party in a teen movie that I have ever seen. I thought that I saw orange pop in the coolers and the makeout sessions are more like talking sessions. Anyway, at this party, Speed takes the Pacifier. Gwen gaslights Layla into believing that Will is uninterested, Will sees the truth about Gwen and Gwen and Will break-up.

Will notices that his parents’ old classmate Sue Tenny kind of looks like Gwen. Will’s theory is that Sue and Gwen are related; so, he has Ron Wilson (Kevin Heffernan) take him to Sky High.

We find out that, thanks to the help of the Pacifier, Gwen is Royal Pain. We also find out that Gwen (with the assistance of Speed, Lash and Penny) is turning the staff and students of Sky High and Will’s parents into babies so that she can bring them up as supervillains, and…

Basically, this is a G-rated or PG-rated Carrie White scheme. TV tropes said that they saw it as a G-rated or PG-rated metaphor for a school shooting/a school shooting and I can also see that interpretation. 

Anyway, Will makes amends with Layla and the sidekicks. Will, Warren, Layla, Ron Wilson and the sidekicks work on stopping Gwen and company. They also work on saving the staff, the students and Will’s parents. We discover that Will can fly.

Gwen’s G-rated/PG-rated Carrie White scheme is foiled. She receives detention, Warren and Will become friends and Will and Layla get together.

Sky High is still a fun time.

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