Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (film)

Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape is a 2001 superhero adventure film based on the novel] writtten by [[Rita Christensen. It was the second film of the Jane Hoop Elementary film series. The film is written by Brian Clark and directed by returning director James Calvin. It stars Blake Brown as Danny Gorden and his friends Rebecca Henry and Alec Gutzwiller played by Amy Tammie and Ben Linkin. The film features guess stars of Loga Lerman as Kirk Waters, Johnny Depp and Sandra Bullock as Kirk's parents.

The film was released on November 9, 2001. It was very successful at critics and at the box office, grossing $859 million worldwide. It was nominated for three Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards in 2002.

Plot
Jane Hoop Elementary started their promotion for their famous Jane Hoop Elementary video game, a video game where any use can go inside and explore throughout the levels. However, with her heartred with their popularity, Catwoman has hacked the entire video game and is threaten to destroy them all in which she found that any users loses, they can return back to their real world but their bodies will be swamp up and will be possesed forever. Danny and his friends discovers that their longtime friend Kirk Water is the most popular player in the game has gone missing. While battling against Catwoman, Danny and his friends Rebecca, Alec, Cory, Jaquille and Naudia were being transported inside the video game and were trying to save the game and destroy the virus. Catwoman, Shego and Monkeyman also came trying to stop them. There are ten levels in the game and have three lives each. If they lose all of them, they will remain back to their world but their bodies will be switched by a evil demon's sprits and remain posessed forever. Throughout the levels, Danny and his friends discovers that the most popular and powerful player in the world named Kirk Waters is trapped in the game forever and will never return to his real world battles. While also trying to save their game, but will also have to rescue the most popular player ever to bring the player home. During that, they battle against one of Catwoman's army of virus. The player's parents has apperently appered in the game to search for their lost son Kirk. They joined along with them to search for Kirk. When they found the player, however, Kirk is seen possessed and attacking them. Leaving him behind, they apperently found is the real Kirk, who has remember his parents and also remembers Jane Hoop Elementary where they were longtime friends. In the tenth and final level, they met up their Cyber versions of Jane Hoop Elementary and asked them to help them save the game. Before they can complete the final level, Catwoman and her army begins to attack where they were unable to defeat the virus and save the game. Kirk and the Evil Kirk battles against each other and eventually killed his parents. They died and remained trapped in the game forever. As the final battle ended, Catwoman, Shego, Monkeyman returned back to the real world, Danny destroys the virus and saved the gameworld. Jane Hoop Elementary are returning home, Kirk tries to come back, but Evil Kirk pulls him in. While Danny is trying to reach up to them, Kirk decided to stay because living in the video game is the only place he can live. They than completed the game and returned back to the real world. They think Kirk is the most powerful player he is and they deserve him to stay there as his home.

Cast

 * List of Jane Hoop Elementary cast members


 * Blake Brown as Danny Gorden, the leader of Jane Hoop Elementary.
 * Ben Linkin as Alec Gutzwiller, Danny's best friend and teammate.
 * Amy Tammie as Rebecca Henry, Danny's best friend but love interest and teammate.
 * Bart Simpson as Cory Berning, Danny's best friend and teammate.
 * Bloom Dee as Jaquille Short, Danny's another best friend and teammate.
 * Barbara Blue as Naudia Gorden, Danny's cousin and Alec's love interest.
 * George Jones as James Watson, the mayor of Cincinnati and Jane Hoop Elementary's friend.
 * Nathalie Richardson as Miss. Bella Watson, Mayor's wife and one of the Jane Hoop Elementary's assistance and firend.
 * Logan Lerman as Kirk Waters, one of Jane Hoop Elementary's former friend and the most popular player of the vide ogame, was being trapped inside the game forever.
 * Johnny Depp as Mr. Waters, Kirk's father.
 * Sandra Bullock as Mrs. Waters, Kirk's mother.

Production
The sequel ws greenlighted on October 10, 2000, just one month before the release of the first film in theaters. Production has began in November 19, 2001. It was shot in Cincinnati, Ohio for the location of Catowman's Base and Jane Hoop Elementary Base. The video game scene of the film were shot in the green room where CGI were filming the more video game version of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nathan Kress is originally going to play as Kirk Waters, before Logan Lerman has already signed up for the role. Lerman states that this is his first time that he can play in a bigger roles in his career.

Box Office
Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape was released in theatrical release on November 9, 2001, one year after the release of Jane Hoop Elementary: The First. Like the previous film, it has also broke multiple box offices upon it's US performances. From 6,657 theaters it opened to huge $85.5 million, marking it the biggest opening weekend for a film ever. As the film opened as big as it's predesessor, it total is lower than usual.

The film made $285 million in the US, within $573 million, for a total of $858 million worldwide, which made it the seventh highest-grossing film of all-time. It was the third highest-grossing film of 2001 behind Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

Critical reception

 * See also: Critical response to the Jane Hoop Elementary films

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, garnering a 83% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes,[3] and a score of 64 out of 100 at Metacritic representing "generally favorable reviews". Roger Ebert called The Cyber Escape "better than ever," particularly praising the visual effects used for the Battling scenes.

Praise which was shared by both The Telegraph and Empire reviewers,[3] with Alan Morrison naming it the "stand-out sequence" of the film.[3] The sets, design, cinematography, effects and principal cast were all given praise from Kirk Honeycutt, although he deemed Kim Dawson's score "a great clanging, banging music box that simply will not shut up." [3]

Home media
The film was released on VHS and DVD on April 2002. Along with The First, it was released on an Ultimate Edition on June 29, 2010.

Awards
The film was nominated for three nominations for the 2003 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

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