Spy Kids (P&S) [VHS] Overview
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 Banderas and Gugino make terrific impressions, the movie is carried (as it should be) by the younger Cortezes, winningly played by Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara. Who would have thought an action/horror studio (Dimension) and writer-director Robert Rodriguez had this pleasing family film up their sleeves? Rodriquez (who produced with his wife Elizabeth Avellán) seemed to be mired in cheesy horror films but here breaks out by capitalizing on the talent that gave him instant status with his debut, El Mariachi (1992). Spy Kids has plenty of verve but never swerves into potty humor (OK, there is one good potty joke) or wicked gunplay. All 7-year-olds should have a film as fun as this in their movie-going lives. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are the best secret agents in the world. Your mission is to assassinate each other. If they get within an inch, they fall in love. They marry and have two children, Carmen and June. They do not tell their children. Ten years later, they called on a mission. When his uncle Felix Cortez, the children carefully, and rogue agents penetrate into the house, Uncle Felix reveals the truth that their parents are spies and have just been kidnapped and Felix is not his uncle. Carmen to escape and Juneand try to save mom and dad and save the world. "Spy Kids" is often exciting, funny and almost always entertaining. Not the kind of films that parents should simply their children off, but should, however, to see for themselves some of the most effective stay in a nice little family film '. In a time when family movies are completely disposable, "Spy Kids" is proving to be distinguished from all others and ourselves with a real spy movie experience.
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