Sorry, this movie sucks

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I watched this show as a kid and I really enjoyed it.This show takes place in the fictional town of Paradise Valley. Alex Mack who is 13 when the series starts, walks home from her first day of high school and her life is changed forever when she is nearly hit by a truck from the Paradise Valley Chemical Plant. The truck crashes and the mysterious top-secret chemical spills out of the truck drenching Alex. Alex runs home and discovers that the mysterious chemical has given her special powers including telekinetic powers, she can shoot electricity from her hands and she can morph into a puddle of silver liquid and travel anywhere she wants. She also has another ability that is very inconvenient for her, she glows golden yellow when she gets nervous. She reveals her powers to only two people, her best friend Ray (who thinks her powers are pretty cool) and her older sister Annie who is a scientific genius. Annie does tests on Alex to understand how her powers work and considers Alex to be her secret science project. Alex endeavours to keep her powers a secret from everyone else she knows including her parents. Also Danielle Atron the corrupt CEO of the Chemical Plant knows that a child in Paradise Valley was drenched in the top-secret chemical and has these powers. She is determined to find the child. So Alex struggles with the pressures of teenage life while secretly using her powers for her own personal gain or to help other people. She also tries to avoid and outwit employees from the Chemical Plant who Danielle Atron hires to identify the kid who was drenched in the chemical. Danielle was a great antagonist for the show. I also liked two of Alex's friends. The African-American and strong willed Nicole and the nervous and talkative orange haired Robyn. I felt that Robyn provided a bit of comedy relief here and there.So this show was a very cool idea. Besides who wouldn't want to have those great powers (except for glowing when you get nervous). The only thing that disappoints me is that this show isn't available on DVD. I've heard that only the first season of this show was released on DVD in the U.S. But this show isn't available on DVD in Australia. So I still love this show, I will never forget it and I recommend it to anyone. I certainly hope that one day this show is available on DVD in Australia.

Oh I remember watching this show at 4:00 p.m. during my junior high days. It was not a pleasant experience because I remember watching it when I made my homework.Still, the show caught my attention when Alex displayed her special powers and dealt with the typical junior high problems.But the show wasn't all about adventures and special powers; it was more of an educational effort for a younger audience in order to get more interested in school and biology overall.The lead actress (can't remember her name and I'm too lazy to copy and paste from the main details) delivered a fantastic performance. She made the show watchable.They just don't make shows like this one anymore...

This show was fun. I'd completely forgotten about it until I looked up the profile for that girl from "Dark Angel." I think she was that girl that Alex hated because she was dating the guy Alex liked. Something like that. I remember specifically watching the last episode. Although, I didn't know, then, it was the last episode since they marketed it as the season finale, but it was a pretty good finale (which you could expect considering the gimicky concept.) Shows like this, "Clarissa", and "Salute Your Shorts" make me wonder whatever will happen with these shows. They seem like too much fun to just never show again, but there aren't really nearly enough of them to fill a network. Home video, maybe? I think they should show them on TV Land weekly as part of their regular schedual because it seems weird just to let some of these shows which are filled with rising stars just to sit on some shelf.

I understand why somebody would like a show like this. And that's okay by me. I find this show to be extremely unrealistic. Why? Well, it's about a girl named Alex who's a supposedly 'average' teen. On her first day on junior high a 'cool' girl embarrasses her in front of all the older guys and then she walks home feeling sorry for herself and then eventually gets dumped by a truck full of a secret chemical made by the power plant which gives her the power to morph into a rain-puddle, shoot electricity from her fingers, and telekenesis. (Sort of figures, don't it?)Alex has ultra-conservative parents who treat her like a three year old, and a genius sister. And the only people who knew about Alex's power were her annoying nerve-wrecking best friend (played by Darris Love) and her sister, they keep it a secret out of fear that she will become the plant's personal lab rat.If this would've happened in real life, Alex would've been sent to a hospital and her parents would've had to know. Another thing I found unrealistic about this was the way Alex and her friends talk. If you listen to the dialogue carefully, you would notice that Alex and her friends all talk like philosophers, lawyers from Pennsylvania, intellectuals, and Harvard graduates! Alex's wardrobe on this show was downright trendy and she and her friends all act like they're going on 25! And these are supposed to be 'average' teens?I only watched maybe 4 or 5 episodes when the show was in it's infancy. Then I saw how ridiculous it was and I never bothered with it again. If you like to be entertained with unrealistic teen behavior and fantasy, then watch this show or something like it. If not, watch something else. You would have to watch a movie like "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" if you want to see how kids and teenagers would really act!!!