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Kids: Bursting with an awesome array of ultracool, high-tech
gadgetry, Kids delivers enough thrilling entertainment to
satisfy the entire family! Nine years ago, top international
spies Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez (Antonio Banderas and Carla
Gugino) traded the excitement of espionage for the adventure of
parenthood! But when they're called out on a secret mission, the
Cortezes are separated from their family and kipped by the
evil Fegan Floop. Fortunately, there are two people who possess
the skills and know-how to reunite the family: Carmen and Juni
Cortez, their kids! Your family will love every fun-filled second
as Carmen and Juni bravely crisscross the globe in a thrilling
quest to save their parents. All the while, they discover that
keeping the family together is the most important mission in the
world for kids and parents alike!
Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams-The coolest kids
anywhere are back for a huge new adventure! This time, Carmen and
Juni are on a mission to recover a device that threatens the
entire world! They enlist the skills of Mom and Dad (Carla Gugino
and Antonio Banderas) -- and even their grandparents (Holland
Taylor and Ricardo Montalban) -- in a thrilling show of family
teamwork! With even more cool gadgets, imaginative creatures, and
awesome special effects ... it's a nonstop high-tech adventure
for everyone!
Kids 3: Game Over-The Kids are back again! This time,
Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara) are on a mission that
takes them inside a living video game, where awe-inspiring
graphics and creatures come dangerously to life. As they face
more and more challenges through each level of the game, this
brother-sister superhero duo must rely on their gadgets and each
other to defeat the super-villain Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone)
and save the world yet again. Don’t miss this super fun, totally
exciting follow-up to Robert Rodriguez’s action franchise for
kids of all ages!
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Kids: Carmen and Juni Cortez will soon find out that their
favorite bedtime story, "The Spies Who Fell in Love," is really
the story of their parents. So begins this affable fantasy, a
James Bond adventure for wee ones with all the trimmings. When
Dad and Mom (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) mess up their
first mission after coming out of retirement, their kids must
come to the rescue, equipped with some cool gadgets. The Cortez
family gets involved in a bizarre plot hatched by a Pee-wee
Herman-type entertainer named Fegan Floop (a wonderfully hammy
Alan Cumming) that's as giddy as it is ridiculous. Needless to
say there is plenty of derring-do concerning long-lost uncles,
goofy monsters, double agents, evil robots, look-alikes, and
energized chases. Did we mention the gadgets? Although Banderas
and Gugino make terrific impressions, the movie is carried (as it
should be) by the younger Cortezes, winningly played by Alexa
Vega and Daryl Sabara. Who would have thought an action/horror
studio (Dimension) and writer-director Robert Rodriguez had this
pleasing family film up their sleeves? Rodriquez (who produced
with his wife Elizabeth Avellán) seemed to be mired in cheesy
horror films but here breaks out by capitalizing on the talent
that gave him instant status with his debut, El Mariachi (1992).
Kids has plenty of verve but never swerves into potty humor
(OK, there is one good potty joke) or wicked play. All
7-year-olds should have a film as fun as this in their
movie-going lives. --Doug Thomas
Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams-This delightful sequel to
Kids demonstrates once again writer-director Robert
Rodriguez's remarkable gift for wild invention. Carmen and Juni
Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) are now regular operatives
for a agency, but a couple of rival kids are making their
lives difficult. When an important gadget gets stolen, Juni gets
blamed and loses his job--but Carmen hacks into the agency
computer, reinstates him, and sends them off on a high-security
mission to a mysterious island to clear the boy's name. The pace
is zippy, every situation is crammed with dazzling eye-candy, and
the cast is great--Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino return as
the kids' parents, Steve Buscemi plays a crackpot scientist, and
Ricardo Montalban comes in as the kids' grandher. Fans of the
classic Sinbad adventure movies will particularly enjoy the
elaborate creatures that Carmen and Juni battle on the island.
Pure fun. --Bret Fetzer
Kids 3: Game Over-The adventures of pint-sized secret agents
Juni and Carmen Cortes (Daryl Sabara and Alexa Vega) continue. As
Kids 3-D: Game Over opens, Juni has left the agency and
launched a career as a private detective--but when he learns that
his sister Carmen has disappeared into a nefarious multi-user
computer game, he agrees to go in after her, with the assistance
of his grandher (Ricardo Montalban). Three-dimensional special
effects launch us into a topsy-turvy world of battling robots,
souped-up motorcycle races, frogs on pogo sticks, surfing on hot
lava, and much, much more. The story is even more incoherent than
an actual computer game--but the movie storms along, driven by
writer/director/editor/everything-else Robert Rodriguez's sheer
visual enthusiasm. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio
Banderas, Carla Gugino, and everyone else who appeared in the
first two Kids movies. --Bret Fetzer
