The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D Reviews

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.

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.

great kids film with fun effects

The 3D effects are gimmicky, the story is kinda lame, and in my opinion, Robert Rodriguez's worst family movie of all time. But a good family movie.

A boy with a hyperactive imagination dreams up the superheroes Sharkboy and Lavagirl; when his dream journal is stolen, their home is taken over by tyrants, and so they appear and drag him into his own dream world to set things right. It's a fast-paced kids movie with lots of pretty colors and cheap flashy special effects, but the cool thing is that most of it was actually written by a kid---director Richard Rodruguez's son Racer, then only 8 years old. Kids tend to love it and their parents hate it, but if you can put yourself in the mindset of a child it's actually charming.

This is quite like Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids series with the heroes' actions and special effects and mostly entertaining for the kids. I thought this is just good, but quite bit ridiculous. I used to watch this on 2-D because I'm not interested to use 3-D in this worst family-adventure film as well as my deaf friend's young son loved this one.
I see Taylor Dooley as Lavagirl always giving a great smile in several scenes than Taylor Lauter as Sharkboy.

This was truly terrible. It's nice that Rodriguez wants to make films for kids based on the dreams of his son, but that's no excuse for such a sloppy, annoying film. It bright and obnoxious, constantly being in your face, even when viewed in 2-D. The effects are some of the worst around, and the performances are mostly embarrassing. This film was finished very quickly, and it's not surprising. There's nothing to recommend it on.

Weak, but fun! I had a good time watching it in theatres when I was younger!

when i watch a movie with my kids the test is whether or not the film can entertain my kids and whether or not i can tolerate it. the goods kids movies do both, this movie got one out of two. creative and fun, but unforgivably annoying.

Live a Little Grab the Family or Dreinds put on the 3-D Glasses and enjoy this flix. Got it at Blocckbuster today on sale for $9.99 it was great. If you enjoy Colors you will enjoy this movie, how come I never heard of it. Outstanding

What can I say besides I was in Dallas and I had just woken up.

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.

Watching this movie again now, I swear I almost laughed hard enough to cough out my own lungs. This movie was just plain out bad. From the acting, to the dialogue (& I thought Crossroads' dialogue was bad).

THE FOLLOWING REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

I know exactly where to begin on how terribly done this film is:

Dialogue: Talk about bad, corny, laughable, & terribly written. I have never seen a movie where the dialogue was this bad (I heard from friends that "Gigli"'s dialogue was the worst ever, but I have yet to watch it to say for sure). I mean, this movie makes the dialogue from "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" (a movie I enjoyed, but was dead boring), & Crossroads look like "Schindler's List". Oh man, I cannot tell you how bad the words that come out of the characters' mouths were.

George Lopez's Character - "I am the teacher, & you know nothing..." Ok, so what does that have to do with the small fight that happened between the main character & the bully? I swear it's like they asked George Lopez (& pretty much as well as the rest of the actors) to just pull out some random shit from his ass & say it outta his mouth. In fact, his character, including his villain one, had some of the worst puns in the film. You wanna know how bad the puns were? Listening to the puns from "Batman & Robin" are a day at the spa.

David Arquette's Character to Kristin Davis's character - "I don't want you to go, you're my best friend..." he says that extremely laughable & corny phrase in a badly acted way to his 'wife'. After he lets her go into the tornado, she yells terribly & he says "No! No...come back...please", I swear I laughed my ass of to that.

Kristin Davis's character to David Arquette's Character & then viceversa - *She comes out from the tornado with Lavagirl, "I'm not going anywhere..." but you just said for David's character to take care of you 'son', David then says "Neither am I," Who ever said you were?

I don't even wanna begin to write down Cayden Boyd's dialogue because I swear if I did I'd write down about 10 paragraphs.

So to sum this down, the dialogue is the worst thing this film has to offer. I swear I've never seen a movie with dialogue this bad. You're better off listening to the dialogue from "New Moon", "Ghost Rider", & "Crossroads".

Oh, but that's the least of the movie's problems.

Cast & Acting: EVERYONE in this film are no-names & forgettable, except for George Lopez, but even he was forgettable in here. Taylor Laughtner played his character throughout the whole movie like he had been stressed out & has had a bad day. Whats-her-face played Lavagirl in such a corny way that you asked yourself if she even tried to act.

Cayden Boyd can't act for jack-shit, & that's a compliment. He looked & sounded like he was going to cry in the entire film. I'm not even going to begin talking on how bad of actors David Arquette & George Lopez were in this movie. Sasha Pieterse was pretty much telling us she wanted to be saved from this film, throughout the whole movie she looked forced to act.

Characters: They're all laughable, & deserve to DIE bye every means! The hero of the film played by Cayden was useless & weak, he should have just jumped into the lava pit with Lavagirl & died. Lavagirl was some weak, pathetic excuse for a heroin who is nothing but a distraction, & the same could be said for Sharkboy. Both of them should have died. The two villains were so bad that they should have married each other. They make the villain from The Smurfs, & Prince John from "Robin Hood" (Disney) look like Shan-Yu & Cruelle de Vill.

Plot/Story:Tthe whole point of the film is for Cayden's character to find his true purpose in the world of dreams, & to defeat the villains who are making the whole place a nightmare world. Sounds simple. But then again, it's so badly written that you ask yourself if the writers of this film were even thinking when writing it. It's all cliche & laughable. In fact, I almost forgot, it's just a sad excuse for a "Spy Kids" rip-off.

Now you'll see some Spy Kids in here because it's the same director[?]. But no, the film doesn't work.

Effects: Ok, the effects in here were terrible. Even back then when I first saw this film I was able to tell how bad they looked. I wouldn't be surprised if the effects in the movie were the only thing they bothered to pay attention to make right. I can compare the special effects to "Son of the Mask", & that movie had some shit effects itself. I didn't watch it in 3D so, I wouldn't know how bad the 3D was.

Final summation, this film is so bad, it's just bad. It rips-off "Spy Kids" in a very cheesy, & laughable way. No kid should be put to watch this movie. Go watch some other laughable movie that's actually bad enough to be good. Or better yet, you're better off having your kids watch some of Don Bluth's "A Troll in Central". Yeah, it's that bad.

How this movie scored over a 4% is beyond me.

Piece of shit!!! GEORGE LOPEZ IS THE BAD GUY!? WHAT THE FUCK!!!!

to sum it up, it sucked so hard, that i never seen a movie have gone so desperate for some excitement and treats the use of 3-D as a hostage! so yeah, it's really god awful, makes no sense, spoiled, and 3-D abussive in so many levels, that it's a discrase for family entertainment, it could be even worse then alvin and the chipmunks! yeah, it's that terrible and bad! F

This is a 3D movie of the worst ever seen. Her story is not very good, but Robert Rodriguez he has is that it is very imaginative, and sometimes the imagination makes the story fall and get damaged.

Utter Crap, Similar To Spy Kids. Why would anyone make such films

I have seen this movie no less then a thousand times im sure due to the kids owning it however i liked it and its very entertaining

The graphics are pretty cool, and it has a somewhat good moral, but the cheesieness and occasional "What the heck is going on here?" scenes bring the rating of this movie way down.

Worth watching just for Sharkboy going Paul Mitchell on donuts.