#SPY KIDS 3 THE GUY MOVIE#
At the basic levels of production design and screenplay, this movie is not ready for prime time. Rodriguez famously loves to work fast, but speed in execution requires care in preparation. Getty/Rodin Eckenroth Following the success of 'Spy Kids,' PenaVega joined most of the original cast for the three follow-up films: 'Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams' (2002), 'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over' (2003), and 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World' (2011). But I wasn't excited, I wasn't amused, and although 3-D didn't help, the movie wouldn't work in 2-D, either. Alexa PenaVega has been in a number of Hallmark Channel movies. To fail, of course, is to evoke the death penalty: "Game over." The movie has cute stuff like multiple roles (Stallone talking to three other characters played by himself) and celebrity supporting appearances ( George Clooney, Steve Buscemi, Bill Paxton, Mike Judge). Was he inhibited by the technical restraints he put upon himself? There is a bit of humor in the notion, shared by other players within the game, that Juni is "The Guy." What guy? "The guy on the box." Indeed, he looks a little as if he could be, and the others are convinced he embodies the secret of solving the game. All very well, but the visuals of the video game are not very excitingly imagined, even apart from the crappy 3-D, and the story moves at a curiously detached pace, not like the usually eager and ebullient Rodriguez. Carmen Cortez ( Alexa Vega) is trapped inside the game her physical body remains behind, but her mind is elsewhere, and it's up to her brother Juni ( Daryl Sabara) to go into the game and climb up level by level until he can save her. Jim Caviezel gives a speech riddled with religious fanaticism and Q propaganda at the QAnon. The films tend to have a strong Latino theme, as Rodriguez is of Mexican descent.
#SPY KIDS 3 THE GUY SERIES#
The main series follows the adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, two children who become involved in their parents' espionage. The plot takes place mostly inside a video game, which the Toymaker ( Sylvester Stallone) has devised to gain control of the world, I think-something along those lines. By the way if your kids like Spykids III, do try them with the DVD of Shark Boy and Lava Girl 3D - its not really for adults but younger preteen boys seem to. Spy Kids is an American spy action comedy adventure family film series created by Robert Rodriguez.
Even the editing seems to be missing a beat, so that there are tiny pauses between lines of dialogue, as if each speaker if waiting to be sure the other has finished. After making the splendid " Spy Kids" (2001) and the lesser but still entertaining "Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams" (2002), Robert Rodriguez has somehow misplaced his energy, his flair and his humor in this third film, which is a flat and dreary disappointment. My resistance to this experience was so sharp that it was maybe 10 minutes before I accepted the fact that the rest of the movie was going to look lousy and tried to follow it as a story.
Then we get the signal to put on the glasses, and it's like looking at the rest of the movie through a dirty window.
#SPY KIDS 3 THE GUY HOW TO#
After an intro to teach the audience how to use the glasses(!), "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" begins with a 2-D sequence in which the colors are as bright and sharp as is currently possible with digital video.