Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

$11.00 You don't need to be a film fanatic to see that director Robert Rodriguez loves making movies..... ... Full Review

Don't waste your $$. OK for kids my age: Y Reviewer: Shinjo (15 years old), Date: June 13, 2003 I say: This adventure is a good one, really tense and exciting...... This fun kids movie pulls you to the edge of you seat and grasps you into the plot. ... Full Review

The fun of the original movie the surprise hit of last summer, which grossed more than $110 million was that it was small and sweet; Rodriguez made the effects look good, and he did it for cheap. Kids could ooh and ahh at the visual tricks, while adults could laugh at jokes that weren't dumbed-down for them. ... Full Review

Also new are endearingly meddlesome "spy grandparents" played by Ricardo Montalban and Holland Taylor. Rodriguez keeps heaping entertainment on the screen until the credits' last crawl, from amusing outtakes to a rousing rock number staged at Austin's Paramount Theater. ... Full Review

The best part of the picture for me was the opening sequence in an amusement park.....I continue to like the film's emphasis on the family coming first, a sweet thought in today's disintegrating world.....None of the imagery is particularly realistic, mind you.... ... Full Review

While not up to the level of the first flick, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams manages to offer a reasonably clever and entertaining experience. In the end, my feelings about Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams remain positive but not enthusiastically so. ... Full Review

Interesting bit parts by animator Mike Judge ( Beavis and Butthead ) and the great Steve Buscemi ( Fargo ) make Spy Kids 2 watchable but not a patch on the original.....A sequel as cool, fun and as exciting as the original Spy Kids (2001) movie was always going to be a tall order.... ... Full Review

Many of the other actors in the original film are also back reprising their roles. It is amazing that director Robert Rodriguez can balance all of these elements into a coherent story, but he manages it very nicely. ... Full Review

In the end though, Rodriguez's movie belongs not to the tech-heads, but the kids to whom it's so obviously pitched and whose fantasies it seems so generously to catch. ... Full Review

There is never any real suspense so the movie never gets that exciting. The special effects are plentiful. The technical plot details are pointless. The grandparents add some humour as they bug their son in-law, Banderas. ... Full Review