Option: The Kids Movie

There was one movie that you’d been looking forward to seeing. An animated superhero movie named Captain Impossible. Perhaps not the most prestigious choice. But, you’d been charmed by the trailers when you saw them online for the first time.

“Oh, you want to watch Captain Impossible? Hehe, nice. I thought the trailer was pretty good too! And the reviews online have been totally saying it’s fun even if you’re not a kid. Kramer at Kramer vs Kramer reviews said it was really good. Well, one of them, I guess. We should go see it!”

The film followed a rather bizarre premise. It was about a child who gained the power to turn into an adult superhero. But, his super power wasn’t super-strength. It was “Impossible Strength”. That meant that the more impossible an act of strength seemed, the easier it was. If you asked him to carry around a log, he might struggle to do it. But, if you asked him to pick up the great wall of China and shape it into a knot, he’d be able to do it no problem.

Still, he had a great weakness. If no one believed he could do the impossible, then his powers faded or grew weaker. The movie took great joy in exploring the premise. Often finding the most bizarre or visually interesting ways possible for him Captain Impossible to resolve a conflict

Whenever you turned, you found Kaori in her focused pose. Legs up in the chair and arms wrapped around her legs. Flashes of the action reflected off the lenses of her huge glasses.

The third act of the film was surprisingly harrowing. Having lost the trust of his best friend, Captain Impossible lost the person who believed in him most. Facing an invisible giant asteroid flying in from space, the world was doomed if Captain Impossible couldn’t stop it. But, no one even believed they were in danger in the first place. It took a dramatic last minute speech to his friend, paired with an old photo that his friend dug up, to persuade his friend to trust him. That was what he needed to go out and do the impossible…saving the world.

At the end, while a creative film, it had a rather simple message about “believing in each other”. All of the children in the theater ran out excited.