Disney Channel back in the day was filled to the brim with top notch programming be it either animated or live action. However there were also alot of shows and movies that have sadly been forgotten about for whatever reason and it's one of those shows that i'm going to be talking about and so then join me as I review the episode of a show that alot of people have really forgotten about with the episode in question being called simply just "Pilot" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when she finds out that her parents are actually spies sixteen year old K.C. Cooper is recruited to help them on a mission that could have dire consequences for mobile phones everywhere. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in a; honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as it was a good enough plot for a Disney Channel TV show but at the exact same time this episodes plot wasn't all that good as it was a really rather thinly drawn out plot that really does take quite awhile for it to really get going but when it does get going it is a solid plot for the most part with this episodes plot being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is this shows producer Zendaya as K.C. Cooper and Veronica Dunne as Marisa Miller. Also starring in this episode is Kamil McFadden as Ernie Cooper , Tammy Townsend as Kira Cooper , Kadeem Hardison as Craig Cooper , Tony Cavalero as Agent Wally , Ashley Fink as Reena , Chris Brewster as The Target , Ashlee Füss as Juli , Trevor Jackson as Lincoln , Jack DePew as Ryan and Larry Udy as The Janitor.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad for the most part. As it is the type of acting that you'd expect to see in a Disney Channel show but at the same time it's also quite clearly not that good especially when you compare it to what the cast have been in recently and there for you know that they really can act and yet that makes all the more sad when in this episode you see them not being able to make this episodes script work for them with the acting in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the episodes isn't really that good with this episodes script not really giving the cast a whole lot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place.
To be frank it was hard to tell how they shot alot of this episode while the episode does use a mixture of in studio and on location filming the episode also does some really cool camera moves in what looks like a scene that shot in studio. With the example of this being the warehouse scene where the camera moves up from the ground to the first floor which is something that wouldn't have been possible to do in studio as you'd have to fit in the set and the audience which would make a camera move like that next to impossible to do and yet at the same time tho the scene looks like that it was shot in a studio all of which make it hard to tell how this scene was filmed as it was just such a cool scene in the finished episode that also would have been a pain to film in a studio even without the audience being there on the day of filming it.
Just to be frank both Kira Cooper and Craig Cooper are not good parents as they very frequently forget about there son. With them also being willing to put there teenage daughter into a dangerous situation and then they make her feel bad when she says that she doesn't want that pressure all of which adds up to them being pretty bad parents and that's just the tip of the iceberg as there's more evidence just in this one episode alone with these two being bad parents and while they might improve over the course of these series you only have once chance to make a good first impression and when that first impression isn't a good one that's all they'll be remembered for being and that's not to mention that them forgetting about there son several times in this episode including his own birthday is played for laughs and while yes this is a sitcom and as result there's always going to be that small amount of fantasy in there given that this is a Disney it would have worked better if they were presented as actual good parents instead of bad parents.
It is easy to see why this show has largely been forgotten as there's nothing all that special about this episode. With the episode being a very forgettable episode as outside of the cool looking camera moves and the fight scenes this episode just feels like a lame attempt to do an actually good Disney Channel Original Series as it lacks alot of the things that all f there good shows had a heck even the central subplot between the two friends is a carbon copy of that of the central plotline from the first episode of Hannah Montana except instead of doing that plot line in the first episode this shows takes a few episodes to tell that exact same story with the exact same story and while yes other Disney Channel shows have done the liar revealed story before here it just felt like a lazy rip off of the first episode of Hannah Montana.
To give this episode some credit it does try to do something new by having alot of focus on the action scenes in this episode. With the episodes action scenes being really well done for the budget that they had to pull them and for the fact that this is a live action Disney Channel Original Series and those don't typically have good action scenes in them and yet the action scenes in this episode were really well done with us getting some really creative fight scenes and fight scene locations all while being done in the typical Disney Channel way but at the same time tho the episode makes it painfully obvious when there using a stunt double as they would cut to either a wide shot or to an over the should shot so you can't see the actors faces that clearly all of which make it painfully obvious that there using a stunt double and that it's not the actual actors themselves but the fight scenes in the episode were really creative tho.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty nine minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which is a really rather solid running time for this episode as the episode has alot of plot there to cover that amount of running time but the issue is tho is that alot of the episodes characters aren't that fully developed which is understandable as this is a TV series and as such it doesn't make sense to fully develop the characters in the first episode especially when you have the rest of the episodes to do that but at the same time it would have been nice to have some sort of development for alot of this episodes as alot of them just have nothing to do in this episode and are there just to tell one bad joke and then leave the scene which does make it harder for them to get across what there personality is even meant to be and for us the audience to form a connection with them but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As it was the type of comedy that does work well enough for the Disney Channel but on the flip side of that is the fact that this episodes comedy isn't all that good either as the jokes in this episode are jokes that you can see coming a mile away and as a result of that while they are still somewhat funny jokes they aren't as funny as they really could have or even should have been and while this episode does have some decent jokes in it they are very few and far between with the episode having alot more bad or even lame jokes in it then it does good jokes in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall it's not that hard to see why this show or this episode has been forgotten about by alot of people but at the same time it really is still Zendaya doing what she did best back when this show was first being released it's just that this episode isn't as good as it really should have been or even could have been for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official K.C. Undercover fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the great and legendary Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not all of the images that are really from this episode and are of course on Google Images are really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.