This film is certainly the quirkiest
and weakest one of them all. In the third entry of the popular family movie
franchise Spy Kids by Robert Rodriguez retired O.S.S. (Organization of
Super Spies) agent Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) must come out from retirement and
back into action so he can save his sister Carmen (Alexa Vega) who is trapped
inside a virtual video game created by a villain known only as the Toymaker
(Sylvester Stallone). Inside the game Juni meets other players like Arnold
(Ryan Pinkston), Rez (Roberto Vito) and Francis (Bobby Edner) who will help him
find his sister with a little help from his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban)
too.
Now this film like the other Spy
Kids movies is very imaginative, cartoonish and goofy. But I think this
flick just took it way too far to the point where the feature turned into a
piece of crap. Also another thing, there was no need to put in the picture so
many characters as cameos it just fell like Rodriguez had no more ideas for new
characters, although it is kind of nice to see some popular faces but I think
he could have done it in a better way. Also the story isn’t really that great
like the ones in the previous entries, but then again I think it was all for
children’s appeal and to reflect how popular video games were getting. In a way
it’s sort of a metaphor that children shouldn’t just stay at home playing video
games because they’ll basically get sucked in by them. Overall the picture is a
bit entertaining but it is really weak compared to its predecessor, I really
hope Rodriguez has better ideas for the fourth entry which is going to be out
later this year.
Rating:
1.5 stars out of 5.
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