Spy Kids Reviews
Mark Reviews Movies
If you are sans children, you may feel a little awkward walking in, but once the movie starts, you'll feel right at home.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticAs a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention.
PopMatters
While Spy Kids is neither sophisticated nor classically educational, it is filled with love, family, bright colors, fun action scenes, and magical mystery.
Dark Horizons
A family film that proves surprisingly distinctive.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Flipside Movie Emporium
...a monstrosity from the depths of Disney Channel hell, a funhouse nightmare with no apparent exit sign
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| Original Score: D
Movie Metropolis
...fast paced, full of colorful, fanciful imagery and high good humor.
| Original Score: 7/10
Needcoffee.com
Personally, I can't wait for the sequel.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Blather
As the film flies forward, it finds more and more inventive ways to show us, to entertain us, to make us laugh.
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| Original Score: A-
Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Fast-paced and diverting, the kind of film that will light up the eyes of a 10-year-old, without insulting his parent's intelligence.
Phantom Tollbooth
Neatly combines the more outrageous elements of James Bond spy movies with the fun aspects of kid flicks.
Baseline.Hollywood.com
Spy Kids is flat out a good time for the whole family.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinerina
Arguably the best segment in Four Rooms is the one with the little kids left alone in the room by their dad. I trust Rodriguez with kids as a subject. I liked it.
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| Original Score: 3
BBC
The action itself -- despite some bright, funny moments -- is often quite ordinary.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Jacksonville Film Journal
It's a blast of energy that one really can refer to (without the slightest hint of reservation) as 'good for the whole family.'
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Empire Magazine
Unashamedly brilliant, a fast and furious fusion of hip references, cute action, dynamic visuals and sheer delight.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Credo
Not only terrifically entertaining, but has a great message, as well.
Hollywood Report Card
"What Dreams May Come"/Bond Junior
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin Chronicle
The rare kind of movie that doesn't dumb it down for the kids and won't embarrass grownups who come to see it sans familia.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Greg's Previews at Yahoo! Movies
Very entertaining... refreshing.
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| Original Score: 3/4
