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Spy Kids
2001 · Film · 88 min
Part of Spy Kids Collection
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
FamilyActionComedyAdventureScience Fiction
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents from their respective countries. They gave up that life to raise their children. Now, the disappearances of several of their old colleagues forces the Cortez' return from retirement. What they didn't count on was Carmen and Juni joining the "family business."
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I feel pretty confident that Captain Marvel, Emilia Perez, Spy Kids, Sausage Party, The Last Jedi, and Ghostbusters 2016 aren't at much risk of going over the heads of audiences, but you're entitled to your opinion if you think they count as avant garde cinema
Way back when the first spy kids movie leaked without CGI so the kids were flying Superman style without the associated backdrops.
It reminds me of that movie Spy Kids where the villain kidnaps people and turns them into these teletubby like creatures.
Looking back, that was kind of some heavy body horror for a kids movie.
But yeah, “Snoo” is easily the worst tech company name for their employees I’ve heard. I had no idea Reddit had an internal name for their employees. This is way worse than “meta mates” or whatever Zuckerberg ended up coming up with.
Isn’t this an important plot point in the spy kids movie?
If your narrative was true, we would always see critics scores lower than the audience (assuming statistically significant number of critics reviewing a given movie). But we see so many counterexamples with radically different ratings: Spy kids, Ad Astra, Noah, King Kong (2005), Babe, The Blair Witch Project, Chicken Run, and thousands of others.
God, I fucking hate the current color grading trend of killing every color except for two opposing ones (usually amber and blue) and then pushing almost everything else into a chiarscuro of inky shadows.
Watch a 90s movie sometime and it will make you weep for how beautiful today's movies could be.
For superhero movies in particular, I think a big part of this is a deliberate attempt to distance themselves from the stigma that comics are for kids. They want to sell to an adult audience but adults feel foolish if they consume something too clearly sanitized and kid friendly.
The last thing any Hollywood director wants to do is make their superhero movie look like 1990's "Dick Tracy", or something in the Spy Kids franchise because it will drive adult audiences away. So they slather the whole fucking thing in grimdark so it looks like serious grown-up stuff who are too insecure in their maturity to watch a silly movie about dudes in spandex doing magical acrobatics and punching each other.
(This is also why so much YA fiction which is heavily read by adults is dystopian. And it's why modern superhero movies so rarely have characters use their actual superhero titles, which sounds corny.)
Expectations are a big deal.
Which is why I have mixed feelings the "IMDB pre-check". I've watched some middling-reviewed films that I found awesome and vice-versa (Spy Kids had an 8.0 - was a bad movie even for kids).
"Spies are going to be so much a thing of the past ..."
Why do you think we've got spy kids?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0227538/
Excuse the plugging of my own wares, but by coincidence I did some analysis the other day of the disparity between User/Critic ratings of movies on RottenTomatoes: http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/what-are-the-most-overrated-films/
Example: "Spy Kids" got a 93% fresh rating from critics, but 45% from audience ratings.
Code attached should you want to investigate for yourself.
Monkeycalandar? Candygram? The names are ridiculous. It's like the whole place is staffed by 12 year olds who loved the "Spy Kids" movies.