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.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 26
The decision to turn this kiddie fantasy into a 3-D film was a miscalculation.
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Average Rating: 2.5/5
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A 10-year-old outcast is shunned by classmates and forced to spend summer vacation alone. With his two imaginary friends (Shark Boy and Lava Girl) he goes on a mission to prove dreams can become reality.
PG, 1 hr. 33 min.
Jun 10, 2005 Wide
Sep 20, 2005
$39.0M
Miramax
All Critics (135) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (101) | DVD (13)
It's terrible 3-D. I think the story is terrible as well.
A half-baked world no kid would want to visit.
Nothing's scary, and everything's so light it's on the verge of evaporating.
A movie that fails on nearly every level.
Shark Boy and Lava Girl have about as much appeal as a dogfish and a melting Barbie doll.
Parental pride may have clouded Rodriguez's judgment.
Kids will love the 3-D aspect of this movie.
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.
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.
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.
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
No amount of bells & whistles can salvage a screenplay this half-baked.
A movie for kids, by kids, even if Rodriguez was there for a little bit of technical supervision.
Robert Rodriguez gives a window into his family, and his recipes, with 3-D beamed to your home!
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.....
June 25, 2011
Super Reviewer
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
May 18, 2011
Super Reviewer
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