See, I didn't have any trouble with the visual immersion failing in Sky High; The bright cartoony color-coding of characters worked for me through to the end, and I'm wonderign where it failed for you. I'll agree it worked more as an entertaining movie than a deep one; there was more that could have been done with some characters.
The things that did bother me about Sky-High:
#1 Mention of The Commander's father twice without him appearing even in a musty old photograph, or in any plot sense;
#2 That lame capering toady of Royal Pain's;
#3 Royal Pain's motivations and how they interfaced with Will and his own Hero/Sidekick dilemmas. There was room there for potentially interesting villian ambivalence.
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The things that did bother me about Sky-High:
#1 Mention of The Commander's father twice without him appearing even in a musty old photograph, or in any plot sense;
#2 That lame capering toady of Royal Pain's;
#3 Royal Pain's motivations and how they interfaced with Will and his own Hero/Sidekick dilemmas. There was room there for potentially interesting villian ambivalence.
--Chiaroscuro