Tired of feeling like you wasted time, felt like the film lacked emotional synesthesia, objectified women, felt more like a two hour commercial, felt that the film insulted your intelligence, the film lacked a narrative or over saturated special effects, and you felt overall ripped off by the high prices of admission? This is a discursive declaration of war on film mediocrity. Shall we declare war, glorify, or boycott? The choice is yours to decide.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Spy Kids take the GLORY.
Robert Rodriguez does it again. This is a great family movie to not only add to the collection, but one to watch with the whole family because of its wonderfully instilled family values, and moral compass to choose good over evil. The film opens up with a very pregnant Marissa Cortez Wilson (Jessica Alba) fighting a gang of thugs lead by Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven). Marissa zip-lines to safety after a bomb is set off, and she ends up having to go through a high speed chase all the while keeping track of her contractions as she his stalling the birth of her child moments longer to assail the perp.
After the birth of Marissa's baby, she decides to retire from the OSS. One would think that Marissa has it all...married to a famous spy hunting television reporter, a new baby and intelligent twin step kids. Trying to mother Rebbecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook), who clearly don't want her around, is her toughest challenge yet. Also, her husband, Wilbur (Joel McHale), wouldn't know a spy if he lived with one, since Marissa is a retired secret agent. Marissa's world is turned upside down when the maniacal Timekeeper threatens to take over the planet and she's called back into action by the head of OSS, home of the greatest spies and where the now-defunct Spy Kids division was created.
With Chaos ensuing, Rebbecca and Cecil are thrust into action and a cooperative adventure when they learn that their boring stepmother was once a top agent, and now the worlds most competitive ten year olds are forced to put their bickering aside and rely on their wits with a little help from a couple of very familiar Spy Kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara). Bringing forth some mind-blowing gadgets, as they struggle to save the world and possibly bring their family together. Marissa brings a whole new concept of bringing your child to work as she straps her baby in and goes into battle to save her step children. This is a great way to pass the torch to new characters and to keep the franchise alive. This movie is filled action and adventure that will satisfy the appetites of the young and old. Sure the theme of having all the time in the world to vanquish evil while rescuing the world is good, but the value making time for your children is golden. The Aroma-scope was the only downfall with this pic because it did not work, especially, since the first three scratch and sniff portions of the card smelled the same, but the fact that one has the option to smell it if they want top is a plus. There were a lot of bodily gross out humor sprinkled throughout the film and a tad bit overboard on the fart gags, but all in all, Good film. I sincerely give it a B+. Let me know what you think or what's your take? Do you agree or disagree?
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