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Young Mike (Barry Miller) and his friends steal a car for a joyride,
even though none of them know how to drive properly. Only young
Chuck (Kerry MacLane) refuses to go with them, because stealing cars is
wrong ... and before he knows it, Chuck and not his friends finds himself
on the run, , is almost run over by his friends, and almost ditched by his
friends too, once he has shaken his pursuer. He shouldn't have shaken
his pursuer though, because that was Billy Batson (Michael Gray), the
notorious do-gooder who can turn into superhero Captain Marvel (Jackson
Bostwick) should need arise, and who usually spends the time travelling
the countryside with his mentor Mentor (Les Tremayne) - yeah, they were
short on names - to look for opportunities to do good. However, when
Chuck's bike is stolen and his firneds ditch him once more, Billy catches
up with him, helps him report it to the police, and gives him a talk about
being himself and not following his peers and stuff. Then Chuck runs into
Mike and gang again right when they steal another car for a joyride, and
they just drag him into the car. Billy sees Chuck being dragged into the
car and turns into Captain Marvel to follow it - to a trash heap, where
the boys hide in another car and are almost compressed to a metal cube if
it wasn't for the Captain saving them. The kids come out of the ordeal
better men, having learned a lesson ... Pretty annoying kiddie
show that tries way too hard to shove a message down little boys' throats
to even try to tell a proper story or care about things like dramatic
buildup and the like, instead it makes its point over and over again, and
when even an idiot must have understood it, a superhero comes by and lays
it out in plain English, not once but twice. To sum it up in three
words, blunt, simplistic and boring - oh, and not even half as enjoyably
campy as stills of Jackson Bostwick as Captain Marvel might suggest.
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