Spy Kids (2001)

I'm all about Robert Rodriguez. And when I heard that he was doing this movie I thought that it was great that he was trying to expand his career and not confine himself to be a genre filmmaker. I thought this all the way into the theater. I also understand that this movie wasn’t exactly aimed at my demographic, but could it have been any stupider?  I mean damn.  I enjoy kids movies as much as the next guy, maybe more.  But this movie was rough to watch.  It was inspired by Rodriguez’s short segment in his earlier project, Four Rooms, and is about two kids that venture out to rescue their captured spy parents. This is the last movie that Rodriguez shot on film.  He did his post production work at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch, and was there introduced to the advantages and freedoms of digital filmmaking.   (Written and directed by Robert Rodriguez)