Not as high as you might think...

Sky High is cute, admittedly. And it's wholesome - with a quality message of acceptance of others, even if they're less super than you are. But it's a bit of fluff, nothing more.

The plot is simplistic - child of world's two greatest superheroes goes to superhero school and begins as friends with the sidekick/dork crowd. He gets his powers, switches tracks to hero, gets new girlfriend and friends, forgets his old friends, has to save the world with the help of his old friends who accept him back and turn out to be pretty heroic. Nothing original or revolutionary here, and I found most of the plot twists (who the true bad guy is, for example) pretty predictable. Things were a little cut and dry and formulaic for my tastes.

My guess is that kids who haven't seen Can't Buy Me Love and a half dozen other teen romantic comedies will be entertained, as the movie does a nice job of keeping the plot moving along, interspersing nice notes of parents with expectations of their kids, standard freshman-in-high-school-gets-swirly jokes, main-character-gets-popular-and-forgets-his-friends events, and even an obligatory unintended-party-with-cool-kids-gets-out-of-hand scene (a la Risky Business but with far tamer results).

It's cute. It's colorful (great visual sense identifying the kids and characters without going too far over the top), but it's essentially a kids movie that didn't play higher for me.

Most critics seem to feel pretty much the same way - good, far from great.