A superhero comedy for families with more than a few genuine laughs, "Secret Headquarters'" superpowers are in the way it plays to its target audience.
It doesn't pander to teens — ahem, young adults — but rather it meets them where they're at, and it's made with warmth rather than cynicism. That makes it stand out among contemporaries that are either too cool or too out of touch to realize how to talk to kids.
Walker Scobell, recently seen hamming it up alongside Ryan Reynolds in Netflix's teeth-grating "The Adam Project," is put to much better use here as Charlie Kincaid. He's a 14-year-old who is shuffled between the homes of his divorced parents who doesn't understand why his father never has time for him.
