It's the tale of two kids, Carmen and Juni Cortez, who discover that their ordinary-seeming parents are really retired super-spies who have just been captured by bad guys. Some of the special effects won't win any technical awards for realism - Rodriguez did them all himself, without a visual effects supervisor - but even that doesn't really detract from a fast-moving and absorbing story. It manages to spoof spy movies and capture their excitement, featuring cloak-and-dagger inventions like metal-cutting crayons and "electroshock bubblegum." Robert Rodriguez, a filmmaker best known for violent, grown-ups-only fare, now scores big in a very different genre: His "Spy Kids" is a delightful, clever comedy for kids and grown-ups, a pleasing blend of silliness and thrills. NOWSHOWING: Bainbridge, Gig Harbor, Kitsap Mall, Poulsbo, South Sound It's a treasure.MOVIE REVIEW: 'Spy Kids' a spoof that works for all ages "Spy Kids" is an intelligent, upbeat, happy movie that is not about the comedy of embarrassment, that does not have anybody rolling around in dog poop, that would rather find out what it can accomplish than what it can get away with. Families are often reduced to attending scatological dumber-and-dumbest movies like " See Spot Run"-movies that teach vulgarity as a value. The props, even the boat-plane-sub, look like extensions of their toys, not like adult inventions that have been scaled down. It should also be observed that he avoids disturbing violence, that the entire movie is in a cheerful kidding spirit, and that the stunts and skills exhibited by the kids look fun, not scary.
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With a movie so enchanting and cheerful, I want to resist sociological observations, but it should be noted that Rodriguez has made a mainstream family film in which most of the heroic roles are assigned to Hispanic characters (at one point, the Banderas character even jokes about all the Latinos on Floop's TV show). And there's great imagination in a scene in which the kids commandeer a combo aircraft-speedboat-submarine with a plump fish design that looks like something Captain Nemo might have dreamed up. The movie's props range from bubble gum, which can be used as a tracking device, to the parents' car, which doubles as a submarine. Rodriguez has always been in love with special effects (as in his vampire movie "From Dusk 'Til Dawn"), and here he combines computer-general images with brightly colored sets that look like a riot in a paint box. What's neat is the way the kids don't act like kids: They go about their business seriously, and along the way little Juni gains the self-confidence he needs (at school, he was the target of bullies).
The kids have repaired to a secret "safe house," which is a lot different inside than outside, and they utilize all sorts of spy gimmicks some they understand, some they don't. Gradenko ( Teri Hatcher), who claims to be a friend of their mother from the old spy days. After the kidnapping, it's up to the kids to rescue their parents, with a little help from their Uncle Felix ( Cheech Marin) and guidance from Ms. "Spy Kids" is so endlessly imaginative, so high-spirited, so extravagant with its inspirations, so filled with witty dialogue, that the more you like movies, the more you may like this one. My feeling is that a "family movie" fails if it doesn't entertain the parents, since they're the ones who have to buy the tickets. This sounds, I know, like a plot for 8-year-olds, but Rodriguez charges at the material as if he wants to blow Indiana Jones out of the water, and the movie is just one outrageous invention after another. Floop's answer: the Third Brain, which Gregorio Cortez secretly took along with him when he left the spy service. Their problem: The brains aren't up to speed. They look like the originals except for eyes with an eerie glow. Floop runs a cloning operation to turn out exact robotic copies of the children of powerful people. His operation, based in a fantastical seaside castle, includes workers that are all thumbs, literally: thumbs for heads, arms and legs. Minion works for the diabolical Fegan Floop ( Alan Cumming), whose job as a kiddie-show host masks his scheme to rule the world.
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