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	DVD Review: Spy Kids
		"Spy Kids" starts off introducing us to Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez(Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) two former spies (now "consultants") who were from different sides, but fell in love, got married and had two kids.
		Meanwhile, at the Floop palace, assistant Minion (Tony Shalhoub in an excellent performance) has come up with "spy kids"; robot children that are planned to take over the world, but they need one last component that the two children have in their possession.
		At their disposal though, are the latest in spy gadgets - all of these are effective, but none of them - like the rest of the movie - are really violent in nature.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/spykidsdvd.html (942 words)

	Movie-List - Reviews - Spy Kids
		The kids learn that their parents are spies when an evil toy manufacturer and television personality captures their parents.
		Gregorio Cortez and Ingrid Cortez (not her maiden name) were spies who spent a great deal of their time trying to hunt the other down, but through all of their chasing they begin to fall for eachother and one day they were wed.
		Apparently several OSS (the spy organization to which the Cortezes belong) agents have gone missing and it is their task to find them.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/spykids.shtml (1222 words)

	The Trades - Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
		Take the elements of a successful spy film, like an evil doer hell bent on taking over the world, a spy who is actually a traitor, and throw in lots of cool gadgets and transportation that is given to intelligent kids to use.
		Kids will most likely enjoy the film, and the gadgets are fun to watch, but adults won't have as much fun as they did at the first film.
		When "Spy Kids" opened in March of 2001 and went on to bring in a surprising $112 Million in domestic box office, "Spy Kids 2" was already in the works.
	www.the-trades.com /column.php?columnid=1285 (837 words)

	Filmtracks: Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (Robert Rodriguez/John Debney)
		Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams: (Robert Rodriguez/John Debney) With the Spy Kids franchise being the sole dream of director and producer Robert Rodriguez, it is no surprise that Rodriguez would fill some of the composing duties for the franchise himself.
		The Spy Kids films are aimed at the fantasies of kids, and thus the score plays to several cliches in action and thriller music that appeal to kids.
		The first Spy Kids score may have been a funky adventure given the broad collection of talent, and Spy Kids 2 is more of a stock action/adventure score that one would expect from John Debney, with the unpredictable elements thrown in by Rodriguez.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/spy_kids2.html?page=print (635 words)

	"Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams" - Salon
		His 2001 "Spy Kids" was ostensibly made for children, but it had more stylishness (not to mention a better plot and cooler gadgetry) than any James Bond movie made in the past 10 years.
		In "Spy Kids 2," the well-respected kid-spies Carmen Cortez (Alexa Vega) and her younger brother Juni (Daryl Sabara) find themselves challenged by a pair of uppity blond rivals: Gary Giggles (Matt O'Leary) and his little wiseacre sister Gerti (Emily Osment).
		The secret of Rodriguez's success with the "Spy Kids" movies is that he makes you care as much about the characters as he does about the special effects.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/08/07/spy_kids_2/index.html (634 words)

	Modamag.com \| Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (Movie Review)
		With the “Odorama” featured in “Rugrats Go Wild,” and now the return of 3-D in “Spy Kids 3-D,” the gimmicky nature of recent family filmmaking makes it feel like it was the 1950s all over again.
		“Spy Kids” was a dream come true: an inventive family film that never talked down to its audience, and wasn’t weighed down by principles.
		“Spy Kids 2” couldn’t match the original’s tone nor restraint, with Rodriguez falling far too much in love with the special effects he found so easy to control in the first film.
	www.modamag.com /spykids3d.htm (926 words)

	Spy Kids 2 (2002). A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Their spy gadgets don’t work on the mysterious island, and the Cortez kids have to deal with their rival OSS Spy Kid agents, sneaky Gary and Gerti Giggles.
		SPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS is Rodriguez’s ode to the very spirit of exploration, as his young spies set sail in a super-automated Dragon Spy Sub for lands unknown bringing along enough spy paraphernalia – from satellite-linked watches to rocket-powered hover-shoes -- to make James Bond’s Q green with envy.
		The kids are placed on the island where their technology does not work so that they need to rely on their own creativity to survive.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /spy_kids2.htm (1904 words)

	Spy Kids
		Spy Kids is a wonderful new fantasy from, of all people, Robert Rodriguez.
		Unknown to their kids, Gregorio and Ingrid are two ex-spies that fell in love and settled down to raise a family.
		Here, the kids are not mugging for the camera, they are foiling spies and solving problems.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/spy_kids.html (538 words)

	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
		The Cortez family is back in an adventure that pits them against rival spy kids, and takes them to a mysterious island where none of their fancy spy gadgets will work.
		Sibling spies Carmen and Juni Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) are now full-fledged OSS operatives, part of the organization's brand-new Spy Kids sector.
		Spy Kids 2 is sluggish in spots, and there's just no recapturing the first film's invigorating sense of originality, but it's still a unique theatrical experience well worth any family's precious moviegoing dollars.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=135283&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13#tabs (890 words)

	Spy Kids (2001)
		Spy Kids is full of cartoony action sequences and scenes of comic menace that should present no problem to any but the youngest viewers; parents of a typical seven- or eight-year-old won’t have anything to worry about.
		Both kids are likeable and sympathetic, though older Carmen is the more competent and picks on her brother constantly, while younger Juni has more pratfalls and needs rescuing every so often.
		Spy Kids is from director Robert Rodriguez —; who’s known for crime thrillers El Mariachi and Desperado, as well as horror schlock From Dusk Till Dawn and The Faculty —; and distributor Dimension (a Miramax division), also more commonly associated with R-rated, ultraviolent movies.
	www.decentfilms.com /reviews/spykids.html (1151 words)

	Cinema.nl: James Bond met een kauwgomsmaakje [recensie] Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams van Robert Rodriguez
		De eerste Spy Kids was een vrolijke, geestige familiefilm; een geslaagde mix van talloze kinderfantasieën, volwassen persiflages, lekker simpele grappen en een vleugje engagement.
		Spy Kids 2 zit opnieuw boordevol grappen en verwijzingen, en dendert in hoog tempo voort naar een zoete finale.
		Dat neemt niet weg dat Spy Kids 2 nog altijd aanzienlijk beter is dan het doorsnee aanbod aan familie-amusement in de bioscoop, alleen al door het overduidelijke enthousiasme van Robert Rodriguez, die wonderbaarlijk goed weet waar kinderen van dromen.
	www.cinema.nl /cinema/magazines/news/index.jsp?portals=3142294&news=10292626&magazines=5268514 (511 words)

	Filmtracks: Spy Kids (Debney/Elfman/Rodriguez)
		Spy Kids: (Debney/Elfman/Rodriguez) From a logistical perspective, the music for this new kiddie adventure flick is the kind of nightmare that would have been inconceivable in Hollywood just ten years ago.
		For Spy Kids, you can picture these people walking into the studio, mucking around for a while, spontaneously conjuring up a minute of ideas, testing out these ideas like a group of giddy teenagers with new band equipment in the garage, and then going to lunch.
		In any case, the frenetic score for Spy Kids gives the listener the impression that the group of composers had a lot of effortless fun working together on the project.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/spy_kids.html (1278 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Spy Kids"
		When their international spy parents are kidnapped by the evil Floopster, two children are left to take over the spy game for their family and rescue the day.
		And considering that I am neither a kid, a mom or a pop, I even dug the movie a lot, so I can't imagine this flick not hitting the right chords with anyone looking to have a good time at the movies (which is probably why Miramax has already green-lit the sequel).
		This concept of kids who automatically become spies, with Matrix-like powers and agility when they realize that their parents are spies, is just stupid.
	www.joblo.com /spykids.htm (2359 words)

	Montreal Mirror : Film review - Spy Kids 2
		This is no lazy sequel: with the return of the cast from the original Spy Kids, plus Holland Taylor and Ricardo Montalban as the grandparents, this winning script has punch, as well as amazing digital effects.
		The spy ships, personal helicopters, flying shoes and crazy laptops are a fun distraction, and the high-tech tree house is pure fantasy.
		The spy parents, Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, are called into service again this time, to a lesser extent, but their comic relief is dead-on.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/080802/film1.html (534 words)

	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams stands as Rodriguez’s biggest disappointment in his sporadic career, a homogenous and formulaic attempt in continuing the exploits of master spy kids Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) Cortez in their pursuit of truth and justice before bedtime.
		This time around, Carmen and Juni are in competition with a rival Spy Kids duo of Gary Giggles (Matthew O’Leary) and his sister Gerti (Emily Osment, sister of Haley Joel) for top assignments and duties.
		Coupled with a distracting subplot of rival Spy Kids and their megalomaniac father figure Donnagon (Mike Judge), Rodriguez fails to generate any difficult challenge for Carmen and Juni to face.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/5b3657c3df22054588256c060000d77d?OpenDocument (873 words)

	'Spy Kids 2'
		Carmen and Juni find themselves undermined by another set of spy kids, the Giggles (Matt O'Leary and Emily Osment), whose father, Donnagan (Mike Judge), aspires to take over the OSS by any means possible.
		The kids are equipped with all the best gadgets, such as jet-pack shoes, laser weapons, various inflatables and watches that click open to form holographic tracking devices, maps and Internet access.
		Rodriguez obviously had a blast making "Spy Kids," from the quirky casting to the earthy set designs to the special effects, which include skeletons in a sword fight.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20020807spykids5.asp (549 words)

	Spy Kids 3 D
		Spy Kids 3-D is loud and headache inducing...little more than a heartless product for the video game generation.
		Undemanding kids may like it, but the only thing this one has to offer is the novelty being in 3-D. It also confirms why so few 3-D films are ever made: the technology hasn’t changed much since the 50s, and it still basically sucks.
		That’s what watching Spy Kids 3-D is like, only your turn never comes, just like the game junkies in arcades who can play a game for hours with only one quarter.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/spykids3d.html (685 words)

	Spy Kids \| The Brunching Shuttlecocks
		The triumphant film in question is none other than Spy Kids, the action-packed thriller with absolutely zero scenes featuring dismemberment or decapitations.
		Spy Kids is written and directed by Robert Rodriguez, of the ultra-violent El Mariachi, the ultra-violent El Mariachi remake Desperado and the uberly-ultra-violent vampire/hooker classic From Dusk Till Dawn.
		Spy Kids is created in much the same spirit as these pervious Rodriguez films, except that it stars a bunch of kids who don't become chopped into tiny pieces of flesh and there aren't any half-naked women flashing their breasts at the screen.
	www.brunching.com /selfmade/spykids.html (691 words)

	Spy Kids (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The film is really about the kids becoming spies and playing with gadgets etc on their way to becoming heroes of a sort.
		The effects are mainly good and it should work for most kids in the way that older boys like their gadgets and fantasy video games.
		Neither of them are typically "cute kids" and it helped me enjoy the film for them to be quite natural and buy into the material.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0227538 (787 words)

	3BlackChicks Review™... SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER (Bams)
		Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) decided he no longer wanted to be a Spy Kid; he hung up his OCC ID and went into business for himself as a small-time gumshoe.
		The beauty of Spy Kids 2, for me, was in its unassuming wit and charm, in the way it reflected creator Robert Rodriguez's vision without that stereotypes, and that it celebrated real, honest-to-goodness family values [no, not the ones in those empty slogans touted by political pimps on the Left and the Right.
		Spy Kids 3-D, on the other hand, seemed less interested in its story and more interested in the techie stuff.
	www.3blackchicks.com /2003reviews/bamsspykids3.html (1005 words)

	Spy Kids (2001): Reviews
		Rodriguez has made a movie for kids, and the most and least that can be said about it is that parents, while hardly being catered to, will experience profound relief that the movie knows how to entertain and does so.
		As a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention.
		It simultaneuosly brings to life the kinds of things lurking in the overactive imaginations while poking fun at the way kids are drawn into mind rotting escapism such as Floop's TV show.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/spykids (826 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: SpyKids
		Here’s the basic story… Gregorio Cortez (Antonio Banderas) and his wife Ingrid (Carla Gugino) are retired spies who have settled down to raise a family in the suburbs.
		That’s when the kids come to the rescue using all types of James Bond-like gadgets and gizmos.
		While I think all kids can identify with the film, I expect that it will have a special place in the hearts of Hispanic children for years to come.
	www.popkornjunkie.com /reviews/spykids.html (621 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Spy Kids 3D: Game Over" review (2003) Robert Rodriguez, Daryl Sabara, Alexa Vega
		But kids will still dig it, and that's what matters for a video like this one.
		None of this means "Spy Kids 3D" isn't enjoyable enough to keep kids and parents mildly entertained.
		After all, "Spy Kids" and "Spy Kids 2" weren't exactly intelligent or coherent and they passed muster as matinee fodder.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/spykids3.html (664 words)

	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
		Enter Carmen and Juni Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), the Spy Kids assigned to protect her.
		She knows the pitfalls of the spy gamevery well, as we discover when her parents pay a visit.
		The kids are searching for the device that can control life forces and, of course, in the wrong hands can wreak havoc on the world.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2002/id1855.htm (584 words)

	Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		She even wanted to be in "Spy Kids II," and I got her a small part as my daughter.
		All I know is that we're really focused on the kids this time around again, and we have to start filming soon before those kids grow even taller.
		The press release for the special edition of Spy Kids reveals that the release date for Spy Kids 2 will be August 7th 2002.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/s/spykids2pre.htm (794 words)

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