Review:

Spy Kids is a very 2001 movie: the CGI is just awful, the child actors suck, the plot is unreasonably confusing, everything is so stupid, and it comes off like the general feeling creating this movie is "Screw it, it's a kids' movie, no one cares." There are so many plot holes that it makes the story hard to follow and what I can follow is just nonsensical. I love the idea of a kids' movie about children with spy training kicking butt, but they don't really kick butt and I'm uncertain if they have spy training. They've been skipping school and they reveal to their parents that they are spies, but am I supposed to connect that they have been receiving spy training outside of their parents' knowledge and also never remotely suspected that their parents were spies? Who is training them then and why? Plus, they have some random bits of gymnastic ability and the boy can mimic voices, but they are hardly spies. Sure, kids aren't going to be as concerned with the plot, but is I'm not sure there is enough interesting stuff going on to keep them on the line. I think they think Spy Kids is a funny movie, but the only bit that got me (other than the laughably bad CGI and dialog) was a poop joke and they got a shock reaction for the multiple times where they tease that they are going to use profanity, but stop just short. Spy Kids is okay, but it reeks of 2001 and it should probably stay there.