Funny and exciting on enough levels that adults are likely to enjoy it just as much as the rug rats they find themselves forced to chaperone.
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03/29/01
Spy Kids (2001)
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Reviews Counted:116
Fresh:108
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: A kinetic and fun movie that's sure to thrill children of all ages.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: When the notorious husband-and-wife spy team Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) is kidnapped by the evil Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), the two Cortez children are the only... [More]
Starring: Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Reviews for Spy Kids
The kids' movie kids have been waiting for.
03/29/01
A preposterous collection of sight gags and lame special effects that doesn't amount to much of anything.
03/29/01
If I were 8, I would want to see it 800 times.
03/29/01
Winning family film that's clever in the best kind of offhanded way.
03/29/01
Top CriticMeanders through an unconvincing plot that has neither the suspense of a spy film nor the emotion of a family film.
03/29/01
Go, even if you don't have kids to take. It's that cool.
03/29/01
A lot of fun.
03/29/01
The children's thriller Spy Kids is just a glorified gizmo movie, but, as directed by the semigrown up Robert Rodriguez, the gizmos have a loopy, babes in toyland vivacity.
03/29/01
What's most impressive about this tale of pint-sized secret agents is how expertly it brings the action-adventure genre down to size without being the least bit patronizing.
03/29/01
Wildly imaginative and funny.
03/29/01
Great fun, entirely uncondescending, with funky homemade special effects and a kid's sense of color, movement and general sensory excess.
03/29/01
Rodriguez makes fun of both adults and kids, but with a gentle smile.
03/29/01
Well before the 80 minutes are up, most parents will probably tune out, but the little kids will surely feel like they are inside one fantastic candy store.
03/29/01
This is the movie that Disney's crass Inspector Gadget should have been.
03/29/01
Hits the screen running and never lets up.
03/29/01
Wildly colorful and playfully weird ... better-than-average family fare.
03/29/01
It's a big, extended live-action pop-up book that adults will be able to smile with alongside their own kids.
03/29/01
Like the speedy vehicles that can be seen throughout the film, "Spy Kids" moves at an agreeably quick pace, never letting up for such petty things as catching your breath.
03/28/01
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