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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)

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Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 97

The decision to turn this kiddie fantasy into a 3-D film was a miscalculation.

18

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 27

The decision to turn this kiddie fantasy into a 3-D film was a miscalculation.

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Average Rating: 2.5/5
User Ratings: 30,451

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Writer and director Robert Rodriguez returns to the family-friendly adventure of his Spy Kids movies with this three-dimensional action opus. Max (Cayden Boyd) is a ten-year-old boy who doesn't get along with his peers and is constantly bullied at school. But Max has an active imagination, and he has a pair of very special imaginary playmates -- Shark Boy (Taylor Lautner), a human-shark half-breed cared for by a pack of great whites, and Lava Girl (Taylor Dooley), a girl with superpowers who can

Sep 20, 2005

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It's terrible 3-D. I think the story is terrible as well.

June 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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A half-baked world no kid would want to visit.

June 12, 2005 Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Nothing's scary, and everything's so light it's on the verge of evaporating.

June 11, 2005 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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A movie that fails on nearly every level.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Shark Boy and Lava Girl have about as much appeal as a dogfish and a melting Barbie doll.

June 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Kids will love the 3-D aspect of this movie.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

Robert Rodriquez continues in the vein of his "Spy Kids" films with another visually frenetic kiddie crowd-pleaser that will leave adult chaperons exiting the cinema nursing headaches.

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

A fun summer film for grade school kids, it avoids the subtle meanness and double entendres that filmmakers sometimes insert into films geared to children.

September 1, 2006
Christianity Today

Older viewers may feel a bit restless during the last act of the 93-minute show, as the resolution is being worked out, but you never have to wait too long for the next object to come bouncing out of the screen and into your popcorn.

July 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie City News
Movie City News

Rodriguez es un niño grande que trabaja como cineasta, pero niño al fin y al cabo. Esa es la verdadera tercera dimensión del filme, la de su corazón infantil

November 25, 2005

No amount of bells & whistles can salvage a screenplay this half-baked.

September 25, 2005 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com
DVDTalk.com

A movie for kids, by kids, even if Rodriguez was there for a little bit of technical supervision.

September 23, 2005 Full Review Source: IGN Movies
IGN Movies

Robert Rodriguez gives a window into his family, and his recipes, with 3-D beamed to your home!

September 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Weekly
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Audience Reviews for The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D

Robert Rodriguez you are so stupid sometimes. The plot of this movie is about a kid with shark powers and a girl with lava powers who try to save a wimpy kid. This film was truly god awful, and the only reason anyone saw it because it was 3D. Its only competition at the box office was Batman Begins..... Bwahahahahahahah, thats bearly a contest.
June 25, 2011
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You know, it seems like I lose less and less respect for Robert Rodriguez every time he tries to make a children's film. This was horrible in every sense of the word. The acting was by far the worst I've ever seen, the plot is stupid, the special affects are lame. It just has no redeeming qualities.

Lets start with the acting, though UI don;t know ehere to start considering there wasn;t a single good actor here. Let's talk about the films 2 lowlights, Cayden Boyd and Taylor Latner. Boyd is officially the worst actor I have ever seen, child or otherwise. He overacts on every line, and when he tries to get emotional? Two words. My God. Taylor Latner was pretty bad too. You can tell he was trying to be badass, like Ghost Rider or something, but it just comes out as lame and stupid.

The special affects were really bad too. In fact, they are so bad, too bad, that in one scene when the main character falls on Max's fin, it bends like cardboard.

As in most kids "superhero" films, the jokes were really bad. Especially the one scene where Sharkboy steps in chocalate. Sometimes, reverse psychology can be funny, but here? About as funny as Bob's Burgers, and they are REALLY unfunny. And finally, why did Sharkboy have to sing? I'm hoping that was a joke, because if it wasn't,...Let's just hope it is.

Bottom line, this might be even worse than Spy Kids 3.
May 18, 2011
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