I will say this, the Spy Kids franchise was certainly a different piece of movie fare on the grand landscape of kids movies. Sadly, while Spy Kids 3D was interesting and different, it also proves to be rather shoddily acted and written. It seemed to lack the charm of the original movies...
interesting one. Redford is on top form but Brad Pitt was maybe a little bit of the opposite. The directing is superb and so is the script, they got it just right. The film unravels slowly, all most to slowly at times and then speeds up when you don't want it to. This ...
Having made a nice tidy sum with the first two Spy Kids, Robert Rodriquez must have decided he needed a gimmick to get those fannies back into the theater seats one last time and decided to give us the Spy Kids in 3d. I'll give him credit for getting the little tykes back into the...
If Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over were consistent, that protest would become Juni’s mantra, repeated every thirty seconds or so from that point on until the end of the film. Then again, if Spy Kids 3-D were consistent — about anything at all — it might actually start making some kind ...
Yet if the movie meant to suggest that Juni’s thought made her feet stink, it forgot about that idea entirely after that one scene. One of the best things about the original Spy Kids was that Carmen and Juni were recognizable children rather than miniature adults. Now they solemnly deliver...
a loyal servant to the cause. While her husband Phillip often suggests early they either defect or disappear permanently in America as the country is not all that bad and their kids are as American as they come, Elizabeth will not here of it. She isThe JobandThe Jobis not over. If her...
Drom didn’t wait around for the rest of the pleasantries. He turned his back on the scene and strode to the nearest exit with Amanda and Jakob in tow. He didn’t stop until they got to the station wagon. He unlocked the doors and ordered the kids to get in the back seat and stra...
Eventually, the gadgets became a formulaic plot element in the films. They fulfill the literary plot device known as "Chekhov's Gun." An item, character or location is introduced early in the story, and then largely forgotten about. Later in the story, often during a climactic scene, that...
Dad was always busy because of work, and his biggest wish, the thing he was always so jealous of other kids for having—was an afternoon of playing catch with Dad. On his tenth birthday he begged Dad to take him somewhere for his birthday, so they came to the woods. “If he only ...
I struggled with the name a fair amount, but at the end of the day, “SpyParty” is punchy, and gets across the vibe of the game, makes you wonder what it’s about, and is unique (well, there are a lot of people throwing spy themed birthday parties for their kids out there, but...