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DVD Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
This delightful sequel to Spy Kids demonstrates once again writer-director Robert Rodriguez's remarkable gift for wild invention. Carmen and Juni Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) are now regular operatives for a spy agency, but a couple of rival spy kids are making their lives difficult. When an important gadget gets stolen, Juni gets blamed and loses his job--but Carmen hacks into the agency computer, reinstates him, and sends them off on a high-security mission to a mysterious island to clear the boy's name. The pace is zippy, every situation is crammed with dazzling eye-candy, and the cast is great--Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino return as the kids' parents, Steve Buscemi plays a crackpot scientist, and Ricardo Montalban comes in as the kids' grandfather. Fans of the classic Sinbad adventure movies will particularly enjoy the elaborate creatures that Carmen and Juni battle on the island. Pure fun. --Bret Fetzer
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Top Secret: Spy Kids are back on top...
Back at the turn of the millennium, SPY KIDS broke onto the scene. The coming attractions looked derivative, so I was very happy when the film came in as a high point in family films. With Director Robert Rodriguez in the driver's seat, (and without studio bureaucracies to sloooow down production, a sequel came out soon after (and followed by a third also in a time impossible for any studio). The most amazing fact is that, SPY KIDS 2 is very good!
Many of the great elements from the first film are back including all major characters, creative villains and concepts, laugh out loud visuals, and an intelligent, witty banter across family lines!
Robert Rodriguez, who wrote directed and edited and did hundreds of other things to the film in his underground laboratory, shows respect to children of all ages, not just the young ones, making the film as powerful as a higher profile adult film.
Juni and Carmen Cortez have grown into their role as Spy Kids, but an ambitious employee at OSS has sabotaged their chances for the entire Cortez clan, leaving them fighting to get noticed. Well, the kids decide to make their names by going after a valuable artifact on a secret island stocked with creatures worthy of a deranged Ray Harryhausen. But don't worry; in addition to the Mysterious island influences, all the best Bond conventions are still intact.
If I have one complaint, the introduction of the grandparents doesn't provide the interesting elements that the parents had when they were on their own.
Followed by a three-Dimensional sequel!
There is a nice audio and video transfer on the DVD. But it is the special features that make this DVD set a virtual film school. In fact, amongst the many features is a ten minute film school presented by Rodriguez himself.
"Remember, a spy is only as good as his gadgets..."
Good movie for age appropiate children
Good movie, but not as good as the first.
The best one!!!
My kids are really crazy about these 3 films,but they think that this one is really the best one.
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