:: Venting Insanity ::

:: Saturday, July 12, 2003 ::

movie review
I watched Spy Kids 2, with Antonio Banderas and Ricardo Montalban, tonight. The Cortez family is a family of spies, being instrumental in the start up of a junior spy division after discovering their kids are just as good at being spies as the parents are. Apparently it runs in the family, because we get to see the maternal grandparents in this one, too.

Anyway, it turns out that even new organizations have their corruption, starting with the teleprompter in front of the President changing halfway through his speech to announce the new head of OSS. While it should have been Gregorio Cortez, it gets changed. The Giggles family becomes the new head family, with the children gaining Level One access and the coveted Ukata Mission. After an incident at the spy banquet, Juni is "fired" under accusations that he lost the powerful Transmookle device. Carmen does a little hacking into OSS computers, reinstates Juni and switches missions so the Giggles end up in the Gobi Desert while she and her brother go to the Island of Lost Dreams on the Ukata Mission.

While all the high tech gadgetry gets a little crazy, there's a strange dampening field around the island that prevents anything electrical from being used, which takes that out of the picture. If you're going to watch this, you really have to keep in mind that it's made for kids.

On the otherhand, once you're in the right mindset, you can sit back and enjoy the corny jokes and cool special effects. It's a fun movie with some really funny stuff and some pretty recognizable people. There's no huge plot twist, as the bad guy becomes pretty obvious early on, but I had fun watching it anyway.