The project holds an audition of would-be members, and four are selected: Dylan West, a 17-year-old boy possessing invisibility, Summer Jones, a 16-year-old girl with telekinetic powers and empathic senses, Tucker Williams, a 12-year-old overweight boy who can enlarge and inflate his body parts himself at will, and Cindy Collins, a 6-year-old girl with super strength. In their secret base Area 52 (a reference to Area 51), he meets Marsha Holloway, a beautiful but clumsy psychologist, a big fan of Zoom's, and knows of him only through the comic book adaptations of the team's adventures. Larraby gives Jack the choice of a lengthy prison sentence should he refuse or a payment of $500,000 for training the team. Jack finds himself dragged back into the Project, this time as an instructor.

General Larraby, the military officer in charge of the Project, decides to form a new Zenith Team to fight him. Zoom's actions propelled Concussion to a dimensional rift who is now on a return trajectory. Ed Grant, the scientist behind the original Zenith Project, discovers that Concussion is still alive. Zoom defeated Concussion but lost his powers in the process.ģ0 years later, Dr.

Thinking Zoom and the team betrayed him, Concussion killed his teammates Marksman, Ace, and Daravia. This made Zoom faster and stronger but created a psychotic break in Concussion who becomes paranoid and delusional. The American military sought to enhance the team's powers using an experimental form of radiation called 'Gamma-13'.

Zoom was nominated for one Razzie Award, Worst Actor for Tim Allen (also nominated for The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause and The Shaggy Dog), but he lost to the Wayans brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans for Little Man.ĭuring the opening credits, a series of comic book panels recounts the adventures of Team Zenith, five young superheroes led by the Shepard brothers, Jack ('Captain Zoom') and Connor ('Concussion'), who fought to protect the world from various threats. Released theatrically on Augby Columbia Pictures, the film was panned by critics and was a box-office bomb, earning $12.5 million on a $75.6 million budget. In the film, a former superhero is dragged into training four superpowered youths to become superheroes and combat an approaching threat. 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. 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.

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