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DVD Spy Kids 3-D - Game Over
The adventures of pint-sized secret agents Juni and Carmen Cortes (Daryl Sabara and Alexa Vega) continue. As Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over opens, Juni has left the spy agency and launched a career as a private detective--but when he learns that his sister Carmen has disappeared into a nefarious multi-user computer game, he agrees to go in after her, with the assistance of his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban). Three-dimensional special effects launch us into a topsy-turvy world of battling robots, souped-up motorcycle races, frogs on pogo sticks, surfing on hot lava, and much, much more. The story is even more incoherent than an actual computer game--but the movie storms along, driven by writer/director/editor/everything-else Robert Rodriguez's sheer visual enthusiasm. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, and everyone else who appeared in the first two Spy Kids movies. --Bret Fetzer
Back at the turn of the millennium, SPY KIDS broke onto the scene, a high point in family films. With Director Robert Rodriguez in the driver's seat, (and without studio bureaucracies to sloooow down production), an excellent sequel came out soon after followed by this third film in a time impossible for any major studio.
No surprise, the ideas are creative and the special effects are excellent. Unfortunately, the heart of the first two films, the Cortez family and their relationships, is mostly missing from this third film. This one sits squarely on Juni's shoulders.
Robert Rodriguez, who wrote directed and edited and did hundreds of other things to all three films in his underground laboratory, skews this film to the video game crowd. This is another change of pace from the first two films which had appeal for children of grown-up age as well.
This time around, Juni comes out of `retirement' when he hears that his sister Carmen has been trapped inside a video game by an evil toymaker. With the help of his Grandfather (Ricardo Montablan), he sets out after her into the video game world. The villain of the story is played by Sylvester Stallone, wearing kooky outfits and make-up as he plays four different personalities. Unfortunately, he doesn't provide the magic touch the film needs. The set pieces are spectacular and make total sense to anyone who has ever sat in front of a Playstation for any long period of time. But the Cortez family banter is sorely missed. In the last five minutes, many of the characters from the other film are back but, it's too late. It only serves as a nice curtain call for the Spy Kids' series itself.
There is a nice audio and video transfer on the DVD. In fact, there are two versions of the film included: the 3-D print (with the red and blue glasses and tinting) and the regular 2 dimensional one. For me, the 3-D gimmick wears a bit thin and the coloring takes away from the production value, a problem if you have anything but the best television. Still, I bet the kids will love the 3-D effects.
Once again, the special features make this DVD set a virtual film school. In fact, amongst the many features is a ten minute film school presented by Rodriguez himself on using green screen and hints on making your home movies better! Oh yeah, and Alexa vega who plays Carmen also has some concert footage.
Remember, a spy is only as good as his gadgets...
Spy Kids, or Tellitubbies? Can't Choose which to destroy. ):
This sucks bad. I'd rather sit through three hours of random Disney Channel commercials then watch this again. Boy, this is terrible. Nuff said.
JESSICA ALBA IS STILL THE HOTTEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!
spy kids is great so that's it!!!!!!!
I love all 3 spy kids movies!!! i don't care what you think spy kids are the best live action movies of all time i hate almost all live action kid movies (except flubber that was actually interesting!!) i think live action movies are pointless!!! there very boring and don't go anywhere fast!! and the 3-D glasses did not hurt my eyes but also my eyes can take looking at almost everything(except the sun of course!!!!)
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... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Antonio Banderas - Carla Gugino - Alexa Vega - Daryl Sabara Director(s): Robert Rodriguez DVD Release Date: Released the 18 February 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Carmen and Juni Cortez will soon find out that their favorite bedtime story, "The Spies Who Fell in Love," is really the story of their parents. So begins this affable fantasy, a James Bond adventure for wee ones with all the trimmings. When Dad and Mom (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) mess up their first mission after coming out of retirement, their kids must come to the rescue, equipped with some cool gadgets. The Cortez family gets involved in a bizarre plot hatched by a Pee-wee Herman-type entertainer named Fegan Floop (a wonderfully hammy Alan Cumming) that's as giddy as it is ridiculous. Needless to say there is plenty of derring-do concerning long-lost uncles, goofy monsters, double agents, evil robots, look-alikes, and energized chases. Did we mention the gadgets? Although... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Antonio Banderas - Carla Gugino - Alexa Vega - Daryl Sabara Director(s): Robert Rodriguez DVD Release Date: Released the 18 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The dark, bushy eyebrows of Frankie Muniz star in Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, ably supported by the natty facial hair of Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack) and the freckled chipmunk cheeks of British pop starlet Hannah Spearritt. Teenage secret agent Cody Banks (Muniz, Malcolm in the Middle) must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue with a mind-control microchip. Banks masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist in London who's the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way Banks hooks up with a demoted agent (Anderson) and a cute-as-a-bug Scotland Yard operative (Spearritt). Flimsy, disposable, but only occasionally insulting, Cody Banks 2 will most likely entertain fans of the first... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Frankie Muniz - Anthony Anderson - Hannah Spearritt Director(s): Kevin Allen DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Doing for awkward teens what the Spy Kids movies did for grade-schoolers, Agent Cody Banks is a wish-fulfillment adventure for James Bond wannabes who are still too young to shave. Just in time for puberty's curtain call, Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz stars in the title role as a 15-year-old recruit to the CIA's youth-agent program, who gets what millions of men desire: a face full of Angie Harmon's cleavage. (It's just for laughs; the sexy Law & Order alumnus plays Cody's CIA handler, but you've got to admit this Bond Girl with a boy thing is a bit perverse.) Otherwise, the movie's a low-rent Bond clone from the director of One Night at McCool's, with a pair of twisted villains (Ian McShane, Arnold Vosloo) threatening to unleash stolen "Nanobot"... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Frankie Muniz - Hilary Duff Director(s): Harald Zwart DVD Release Date: Released the 05 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Lush production design and sparkling special effects make The Haunted Mansion pretty to look at. Terence Stamp (The Limey), as a malevolent ghost of a butler, provides a suitable air of menace as dematerializes to and fro. Marsha Thomason (Black Knight) is lovely as a real estate agent hired to sell a haunted mansion, but in truth the ghostly owner of the mansion believes she is the reincarnation of his lost love. Wallace Shawn (My Dinner with Andre) and Dina Waters (Six Feet Under) make a modestly amusing comic pair as a ghostly husband and wife who bustle about. Jennifer Tilly (Bound), as a green disembodied head in a crystal ball, glitters appropriately. The movie also features endless clichés, futile attempts at humor, and Eddie Murphy.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Murphy - Marsha Thomason - Jennifer Tilly Director(s): Rob Minkoff DVD Release Date: Released the 20 April 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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