A exactly 2 months ago (April 1st and this is not a lie, you can check my reviews) I opened my movie sessions with "TRON" and it was a completely disappointing movie about a technician who must enter into a video game to destroy a powerful villain. First of all I have never watched anyone of those "Spy Kids" movie series. Lack of trust? Lack of interest? Lack of time? Who knows? All I know is that I attempt to watch "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" because I was awake, with nothing better to do and I knew that there's a big and great cast in it. Result: A boring movie and visual video game played by director Robert Rodriguez with a pathetic ending.
I usually tend to simplify the story of the movie, explaining details of the plot but I won't do that. Perhaps just a little bit. It's like "TRON" except that this time the former spy boy Juni (Daryl Sabara, a tiny version of Jensen Ackles with almost the same angered expression) must enter into a dangerous video game created by a sarcastically villain (played by Sylvester Stallone, totally hammy) that kidnapped Juni's sister (Alexa Vega). The whole film is Juni trying to figure out a way to reach the next level and save his sister, with the help of some friends and his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban, the only good performance here).
Why this movie sucked? First: I have a total dislike for movies who basically is 80% special effects with scenarios moving all the time, all those blinding colors. Annoying. I hated this one, hated "Speed Racer" and the only one I really liked of this new wave of movies was "Captain Sky and The World of Tomorrow" (needs a urgent sequence) because that was great, had a interesting plot, the visual concept was incredible and it resurrected Laurence Olivier (it's archive footage of one of his films but that's OK).
Second: I don't even know if kids are that dumb to want to watch something like this. This movie wants to be too many things; want to be a comedy without funny things, want to be a spy movie but can't even kill a character and not even make a evil villain. By the way the villain played by Stallone multiplies himself into three other sad characters. If kids have enjoyed this or even adults enjoyed this film then perhaps my heart grows colder and I don't know what I'm saying. All I know is that this movie was pretty bad.
Third: Here comes the list of actors who unfortunately appeared in this movie in commitment to friendship or loyalty to the director, executives and producers, and or are in it for the money: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shalhoub (I must have missed his scene or he's very different so I couldn't find him), Bill Paxton, Matt O'Leary, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Ryan Pinkston, and of course Stallone and the child actors, and at last but not least George Clooney. In the very last scene of the movie, during the outtakes and funny movie mistakes Clooney appears saying a brief statement: This could be the end of my career (and then he burst in laughs more than that we didn't saw at 2010's Oscar). Yes, he's right about that. It could've been the end but after this film he made things far more interesting, won a Oscar, directed, wrote and acted in "Good Night and Good Luck" and more.
In short: a movie that didn't needed to be made. Game and review over. 1/10
I usually tend to simplify the story of the movie, explaining details of the plot but I won't do that. Perhaps just a little bit. It's like "TRON" except that this time the former spy boy Juni (Daryl Sabara, a tiny version of Jensen Ackles with almost the same angered expression) must enter into a dangerous video game created by a sarcastically villain (played by Sylvester Stallone, totally hammy) that kidnapped Juni's sister (Alexa Vega). The whole film is Juni trying to figure out a way to reach the next level and save his sister, with the help of some friends and his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban, the only good performance here).
Why this movie sucked? First: I have a total dislike for movies who basically is 80% special effects with scenarios moving all the time, all those blinding colors. Annoying. I hated this one, hated "Speed Racer" and the only one I really liked of this new wave of movies was "Captain Sky and The World of Tomorrow" (needs a urgent sequence) because that was great, had a interesting plot, the visual concept was incredible and it resurrected Laurence Olivier (it's archive footage of one of his films but that's OK).
Second: I don't even know if kids are that dumb to want to watch something like this. This movie wants to be too many things; want to be a comedy without funny things, want to be a spy movie but can't even kill a character and not even make a evil villain. By the way the villain played by Stallone multiplies himself into three other sad characters. If kids have enjoyed this or even adults enjoyed this film then perhaps my heart grows colder and I don't know what I'm saying. All I know is that this movie was pretty bad.
Third: Here comes the list of actors who unfortunately appeared in this movie in commitment to friendship or loyalty to the director, executives and producers, and or are in it for the money: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Steve Buscemi, Tony Shalhoub (I must have missed his scene or he's very different so I couldn't find him), Bill Paxton, Matt O'Leary, Salma Hayek, Danny Trejo, Ryan Pinkston, and of course Stallone and the child actors, and at last but not least George Clooney. In the very last scene of the movie, during the outtakes and funny movie mistakes Clooney appears saying a brief statement: This could be the end of my career (and then he burst in laughs more than that we didn't saw at 2010's Oscar). Yes, he's right about that. It could've been the end but after this film he made things far more interesting, won a Oscar, directed, wrote and acted in "Good Night and Good Luck" and more.
In short: a movie that didn't needed to be made. Game and review over. 1/10