Here, he's a retired superhero who has lost his powers of super-speed, save in his little finger, which he uses to make fruit smoothies. Allen plays the title character Captain Zoom, who in the book was a 3-foot-tall alien with an elephantine proboscis. Jasper Jones doesn't appear in the movie at all, and his daughter Summer is not only relegated to the periphery, but is now a glamorous 16-year-old, played by 23-year-old bombshell Kate Mara.
Tim Allen, best known to kids as Tim the Toolman and Buzz Lightyear, would seem to be perfectly cast as Jasper in the movie adaptation, simply called Zoom. But then one day it turns out he's really a teacher at a special school for heroes that flies high above the clouds, and Summer's whole world changes. The heroine, Summer Jones, is an awkward 13-year-old tomboy with a goofy father named Jasper who likes to tinker with home appliances till they blow up in his face. Jason Lethcoe's book Amazing Adventures From Zoom's Academy doesn't particularly wow the reader with its prose, but the concept is solid-basically, Harry Potter with superheroes rather than wizards.
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