12 Movies Friends Stars Want You To Forget

9. Zoom

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The One With the Superheroes.

Courteney Cox stars as a 'clumsy but beautiful' psychologist in this pre-MCU superhero flick for kids. A cross between Sky High and Spy Kids, it follows a team of teenage superheroes in their training and ultimate battle against supervillain Concussion. Cox is the supportive psychologist adult figure, whose superpower is that she can create, um, rainbow colored gusts of wind. Hey, it comes in useful eventually.

Trying - but failing - to cash in on the superhero boom as kicked off by Spider-Man, Zoom is paint-by-numbers junior superhero storytelling. Everything it does is done better by 2005's Sky High (Tim Allen is no Kurt Russell) including the comedy, action and special effects.

Cox comes out of the whole affair just fine, but her character is nothing to write home about, relegated to a bland supporting role while the boring kids run off and have iffy CGI fights amongst themselves.

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A film critic and professional writer of over ten years, Joel Harley has a deep and abiding love of all things horror, Batman and Nicolas Cage. He can be found writing online and in print, all over the Internet and in especially good bookstores.