- This article is about a book. For its adaptation, see Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (film) and Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (video game). For the film's soundtrack, see Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (soundtrack)
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| Author | Rita Christensen |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jane Hoop Elementary |
| Genre | Action, Adventure |
| Publisher | Scholastic Corporation |
Publication date |
June 28, 1997 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 435 |
| Preceded by | Jane Hoop Elementary: The First |
| Followed by | Jane Hoop Elementary: Goldenman's Revenge |
Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape is a 1997 superhero novel. It is the second novel in the Jane Hoop Elementary series. It was written by author Rita Christensen and released on June 28, 1997. The book features the heroes exploring inside their most popular video game of all-time where it was violated by Catwoman's attacking virus.
It is a sequel to Jane Hoop Elementary: The First and it is followed by Jane Hoop Elementary: Goldenman's Revenge. A film adaptation of the book was released on November 2001.
Plot[]
A couple months after the previous book, 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 possessed forever. Danny and his friends discovers that Danny's pre-school friend Kirk Waters 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 apparently appeared 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 apparently found is the real Kirk, who has remember his parents and also remembers Danny 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 game world. 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.
Characters[]
| Name |
|---|
| Danny Gorden |
| Rebecca Henry |
| Alec Gutzwiller |
| Cory Berning |
| Jaquille Short |
| Naudia Gorden |
| Kirk Waters |
| Mayor James Watson |
| Mrs. Bella Watson (nee Jones) |
| Dr. Catwoman |
| Shego Dalma |
| Shadow the Monkeyman |
Publication[]
Development[]
Christensen announces that she would be writing a new Jane Hoop Elementary book. Entitling Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape, it represents as a sequel to the first book, Jane Hoop Elementary: The First, taking place two years after the events of the first one where Catwoman is back for revenge to destroy Jane Hoop Elementary with her newest plan yet.
Christensen took about 3 years to write Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape, shorter than how long Christensen took for the first book, which took her 5 years to complete.
Cover[]
Rita Christensen written a cover for Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape of the title, her name and a picture of a video game t-virus, a swiring staircase looking inside a tube. She states it, "It is a key of a video game virus that is threaten to destroy and take over the video game created by Catwoman."
Publication release[]
Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape was released on year after the release of the first book on June 28, 1997 in the United States, published by Scholastic Corporation. It also released the book in the United Kingdom on November 1997, and April 1998 in Australia.
Critical reaction[]
Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape received nearly many successful critics some saying: "this is even better than the second book", but some say "not much entertainment from the first book". Amy Watson critizes that the second book "sounds more like lazy storyline sequel from the first book that was written".
Film adaptation[]
- Main article: Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (film)
After a massive box office success of the first film, the film version of the second book was released worldwide on November 9, 2001, one year after the first film, with Steven Spielberg returned to direct the film. Main cast members Blake Brown, Ben Linkin and Amy Tammie reprised their roles as Danny Gorden, Alec Gutzwiller and Becca Henry.
The film had the second biggest opening weekend ever behind it's predecessor ($85.2 million) with $83.2 million. It grossed $875 million worldwide in total, becoming the fifth highest-grossing movie in history and became the third film to earn $600 million internationally. Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape was praised with many postive reviews earning 81 percent from Rotten Tomatoes.
Video Game[]
- Main article: Jane Hoop Elementary: The Cyber Escape (video game)
A video game of the same name was released on November 5, 2001 from Electronic Arts.
Editions[]
Bloomsbury (United Kingdom, Australia, etc.)
- ISBN 0-7475-3849-2 Hardcover
- ISBN 0-7475-3848-4 Paperback
- ISBN 0-7475-7361-1 Hardcover (adult edition)
- ISBN 0-7475-7448-0 Paperback (adult edition)
Scholastic (United States, etc.)
- ISBN 0-439-06486-4 Hardcover
- ISBN 0-439-06487-2 Paperback
Raincoast (Canada, etc.)
- ISBN 1-551-92370-X Paperback
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External links[]
- Goldenman's Revenge book website
| Jane Hoop Elementary series (1996-2005) | The First (1996) * The Cyber Escape (1997) * Goldenman's Revenge (1999) * The Magic Ball (2000) * Morpin the Power (2001) * Turbo of Catland (2003) * The Final Rush (2005) | |
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| Other Works | Dr. Catwoman (2007) * Heroes Forever: The New Beginning (2009) * Jane Hoop Elementary prequel (2011) | |
| Filmography | Heroes Forever: The New Beginning (2016) * Heroes Forever: The New Resolution (2017) * Heroes Forever: The Stone of Death (2018) * Heroes Forever: The Battle of Time - Part 1 (2022) * Heroes Forever: The Battle of Time - Part 2 (2023) | |
| See also | Rita Christensen's Superhero Saga | |