Review – Spy Kids

I’m willing to be that if I was a ten year old, I would really love this movie. It’s full of the sort of flashy special effects, nonsensical gadgets and simple-minded plot twists virtually guaranteed to keep pre-teens amused for an hour and a half or so. Our young protagonists discover that their parents are actually international super-spies in need of rescue from a TV kiddie show host who moonlights as a mad scientist. This doesn’t turn out to be one of those kid’s movies that’s secretly for adults; just about the whole show is clearly geared for the younger set. But even though that excludes me from the target audience, I’m sort of okay with that. This was good fun on its own terms. Mildly amusing