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Sky High: Sam Emerson

How high is director Mike Mitchell on Sky High, his movie about a celestial school for superheroes (in gym class, they play ''Save the Citizen'')? Here's how high: ''I have never made a film that I would actually see in the theaters,'' says the director of Deuce Bigalow and Surviving Christmas. ''But I would go see this one.'' Now that's putting your money where your mouth is.

Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston play married capes — an average day's work includes averting nuclear disasters and battling giant robots — whose son is having problems discovering his superpowers. Will he graduate with honors or end up a lowly, shameful sidekick? Here's a better question: How was the costume, Mrs. Travolta? ''Oh, babe, you have no idea,'' says the actress. ''Full-on rubber suit. Tight, with some red, white, and blue. Very patriotic. Very hot.'' (She means in the uncomfortable-sweaty sense.) But it's the extended cameos by geek pop icons Bruce Campbell and Lynda Carter that got Mitchell excited: ''When people ask me who I got to work with, I say, 'Ash and Wonder Woman.''' Beats having to say ''Deuce Bigalow.''


Posted Apr 18, 2005 | Order Article Reprints