The purported premise of this film is that three high school kids encounter some strange thing in a cave and gain super powers. Really, this is sci-fi Breakfast Club. That is, the three high school kids are (pre-super) only somewhat friends. The each are fulfilling a "type", one being the popular-athlete-student body president, one being the guy who is cool because he is beyond and above caring about popularity, and finally the socially awkward-outsider-artistic guy. After gaining super-ness, they stick together because they only really can be understood by people who are like them. This is really a film about type, investigating what each of these types would do with super power, what they would change, and how they would react. It is fun to see the development of these super powers as the kids learn to use them and have fun with them. But in the end, even those who are like you don't really understand you, which is what high school ends up feel like for even those who are not super.
3 stars (out of 5)
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