Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
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Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Steve Buscemi, Ricardo Montalban, Bill Paxton, Sylvester Stallone, Elijah Wood, Carla Gugino, Danny Trejo, Holland Taylor, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega
Synopsis: Yes, it is exactly as the title indicates...not only is it in 3-D (YAY!) but it is the final installment in Robert Rodriguez family trilogy...Spy Kids....for now.
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker (Stallone). It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Sequel to:
Spy Kids
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams
Loved the first one, loved the second one, this one is in 3-D...which may be the best way EVER to end a trilogy! Excerpted from the DVDwolf Summer 2003 Guide.
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Review
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Review: I'm going to give a lot of leeway to the latest Spy Kids offering from director Robert Rodriguez. Admittedly it is less a movie than a thrill ride, but at the core, it really doesn't seem to be intended as anything more than fun for the kids.
The basic premise of journeying into a video game also explains the thin plotting. Essentially ex-O.S.S. agent Juni has been re-called to go into a video game called Game Over and save his sister and prevent the Toymaker's (Sylvester Stallone in a very whacky 4 roles) escape. Once Juni is inside the game the movie goes 3-D and into videogame mode. We journey along with Juni bouncing from Level 1 to 5 in rapid, almost breakneck form.
As the movie barrels along it slips in more family advice that Rodriguez has been bust with since the first film. In Spy Kids it was all about family, Island of Lost Dreams was about recapturing youth, and the this third one, in a way, was about aging, and not being deceived by outward appearances. This is conveyed by the ever-stylish Ricardo Montalban as Grandfather Cortez.
How is the 3-D though? Well, in technical terms I have seen some better 3-D in short films made for IMAX but with a constant barrage of depth and warner brothers like colour flying everywhere this was one eclectic mix. In fact at some points there is so much going on the eye is drawn to various parts of the screen and it almost begins to hurt...so fortunately Rodriguez constructed the film in parts where the glasses do come off for short stretches to give your eyes a break.
Fun without ever being boring and cheerfully unapologetically silly Spy Kids 3-D may not hold up as a conventional film but it is a big screen ride worth your bucks. The kids will love it, and as an adult, you won't be annoyed by it like say, The Rugrats.
For the 3-D tactic it gets 3.5 stars but in the scheme of the Spy Kids trilogy it is definitely the weakest and rates only 2.5 stars (although bonus points for some of the cameos). In the end, it gets a 3 out of 5 in the review..but once on DVD it will be interesting to gauge what this film holds up like in the confines of the home theatre. Yet I still have to say it is worth checking out for the 3-D part on its own. Take the kids, it's not often they get something this entertaining geared for them.
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