Spy Kids 3-D Game Over, 2003

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Writer and Director: Robert Rodriguez

Distributor: Dimension Films and Troublemaker Studios

Co-Stars: Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabada, Sylvester Stallone, Ricardo Montalban, Salma Hayek

Release Date: July 25, 2003

The Spy Kids are back again! Using the very latest digital technology and the thrill of the 3-D experience, secret agents Juni (Sabara) and Carmen Cortez (Vega) are caught inside the virtual reality world of a 3-D video game bringing the movie going public along for the ride!

Carmen is pulled into the game controlled by The Toymaker (Stallone) who is attempting to control the youth of the world. Juni (who had been fired by the OSS) enters the game in an attempt to save his sister and calls upon his grandfather (Montalban) for help. The challenges escalate as they move on to higher and higher levels within the game, competing with other kids that they meet along the way.

Emily Osment and Matthew O’Leary return as the Giggles kids. Rounding out the Giggles family is Salma Hayek as their mother. Cameo performances include Steve Buscemi, Bill Paxton, Allan Cumming, Mike Judge, George Clooney, Holland Taylor, Cheech Marin and Danny Trejo. Screen time for both Antonio and Carla Gugino was limited and repeatedly referred to as ‘cameos’ by reviewers, although several mentioned that Antonio appeared to be having a great time.

Rodriguez shot the entire film with digital technology, making various elements of the movie 3-D for the viewer who was able to experience the special effects in a totally different way than the earlier movies. The third (and likely last) in the series, Spy Kids 3-D did not garner the stellar reviews of the first two movies. However, a review by Sean Axmaker in the Seattle Post Intelligencer probably sums it up best…”Robert Rodriguez is without a doubt the biggest kid making movies today and "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" is an entire amusement park of a movie, powered by adolescent daydreams and superhero fantasies and running on state-of-the-art digital technology.”