From the director of Desperado and Sin City comes..Spy Kids? Why? Why did I watch it? Because it is a Rodriguez movie. Because it was free on Netflix. Because of, I kid you not, uncle Machete! And a nice cameo at the end I wasn't expecting. If I had to be so blunt though, Alexa Vega is an Academy Award winner next to Daryl Sabara.

After finding out that Machete is a legitimate spin off of this series I had the urge to watch the first two Spy Kids films again, having loved them when I saw them as a child.

I wasn't disappointed at all, but I would have to say that some of the reasons I liked it this time around are completely different. It is just so corny and terrible that it is fantastic. I enjoyed every minute of it, including the cringe worthy moments.

Robert Rodriguez's best film yet, this fantasy-adventure kidpic has a Indiana Jones meets The Goonies flare. Badass in the beginning, it proceeds to be such a rich entertainment that it almost ends without me knowing it.

I got a lot of shit from my friends at the time for liking this, but it's good! It's fun, inventive, and isn't dumb. It's not a classic, but it's a really good family movie!

I still remember looking forward to this as a kid. I never liked it either.

Fun and entertaining.

Looking for a good family movie is not easy, but I think this is a good one. My kids obviously loved it, but the comedy is fun for adults too. The special effects stick out, but I wasn't really looking for state of the art effects anyway.

The adult spies were fun to watch (I have a crush on Carla Gugino, so anything she does I love), but the kids were well written and performed. I liked the evolution of the relationship between the siblings, it's a good lesson for kids to learn, but it's not too preachy to watch.

I also loved the George Clooney cameo at the end. Hilarious.

My son loved it so much that he's been busy thinking about what will happen in the sequel. He'll have to wait a week for it.

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This is a wonderful children's movie: intelligent, wildly imaginative and with plenty of heart. Daryl Sabara and Alexa Vega are appealing as the troubled kids whose tedious suburban life is turned upside down by the revelation that those bedtime stories were real, and their parents (Carla Gugino and the excellent Antonio Banderas) really are super-agents. Now all they have to do is travel to the remote island castle of an eccentric kids TV presenter (Alan Cumming) who's imprisoned their mum and dad, fight some henchman made of giant thumbs and defeat an army of robot children. Rodriguez, who also scripted, edited and co-scored, perfectly juggles the diverse elements, creating a movie that's as funny, entertaining and original as any live-action kids' film of the last 20 years. From the super-stylised pre-credits sequence - showing Gugino and Banderas gettin' it on - to the heartfelt post-action pay-off, this is something very special indeed.

I bet those thumb people give good handjobs...
ahahahah see what I did there?