Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 116 | Rotten: 9
A kinetic and fun movie that's sure to thrill children of all ages.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 1
A kinetic and fun movie that's sure to thrill children of all ages.
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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 402,817
In this reteaming of actor Antonio Banderas and director Robert Rodriguez -- their first film together since the 1995 feature Desperado -- Banderas plays Gregorio; he and devoted partner Ingrid (Carla Gugino), comprise the greatest pair of secret agents working. Both are masters of disguise and have the ability to prevent wars, but eventually they want to settle down and begin raising a family. Nine years later, after retiring and giving up the lives of super-spies, Gregorio and Ingrid find
PG, 1 hr. 28 min.
Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
Mar 30, 2001 Wide
Sep 18, 2001
$110.8M
Dimension Films
All Critics (126) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (118) | Rotten (9) | DVD (21)
Fulfills kids' empowerment fantasies and features enough techno-wizardry and cool f/x to satisfy those weaned on videogames.
As a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention.
A fine, relatively non-violent example of pure family entertainment.
A good live-action children's movie -- a species so rare that many presumed it extinct.
It's entertaining and inoffensive, a rare combination in kids' films, which are usually neither.
A delight for 7-year-olds, their parents, and James Bond diehards everywhere.
The visual effects don't really hold up 10 years later, but Spy Kids is still a charming, energetic, inventive kids' flick that balances its goofier side with its a sense of dramatic maturity.
Just the right combination of fantasy and comedy.
This year's most unlikely-and most successful-exhilarating family-type entertainment.
The entire ensemble of old pros play their designated roles well; standing out are Cumming, whose trademark impishness fits this role like a glove; and Danny Trejo, playing a nice guy for a change and pulling it off wonderfully.
The coolest kid flick in ages.
In terms of its family ethos, this makes an interesting comparison with the Addams Family films.
Spy Kids is a frivolous but fun adventure movie that will give kids thrills and adults some smiles. Everybody goes home happy.
Those expecting more than silly fun will surely be disappointed.
Pitched somewhere been the swagger of James Bond and the out there ambience of Willy Wonka, Spy Kids is a real treat.
Lively and high-spirited.
Colourful, inventive, fast-moving fantasy adventure that kids will love and adults will be grateful for.
... the nonstop action and terrifically imaginative production should make "Spy Kids" a winner with kids. Adults will enjoy it as well.
The first great movie of 2001...this is Raiders of the Lost Ark in the form of a gleefully smiling Happy Meal.
I get the feeling that at one point in Spy Kids the film makers tried to make these kids look cute and a bit more life like but somewhere I think they went wrong. Not as good as it puts itself out to be.
November 6, 2011
Super Reviewer
usually critics judge kids movies by adult standars, but fans see kids movies for what they are. with spy kids, its the opposite. the critics get this movie, and fans are entirely too hard on it. a solid kids film that brings little ones into the same sort of fantasy that james bond does for their parents. fun and
January 11, 2007
Super Reviewer
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