SPY KIDS is a film franchise that I never had any experience of before now. I've just watched the first film for the first time some seventeen years after it was released, and I'm afraid I didn't enjoy the experience. This is a silly, dumbed-down children's film featuring over the top performances from the adult actors and a whole variety of shoddy CGI effects work which looks extremely fake when witnessed in the modern day. The child actors are just about passable, but Alan Cumming, Antonio Banderas, and Carla Gugino all seem to struggle with the material and come off looking very silly as a result. The sci-fi storyline is about an army of robot kids but never really goes anywhere, instead churning out the usual cliches over and over again. Genuine actors like Danny Trejo and Robert Patrick are wasted in their parts. I can only hope it gets better from here on in.
Review of Spy Kids
