watching spy kids: island of lost dreams aka the single most ambitious and masterful piece of modern american cinema ever created
holy shit the creature designs in this movie were NEXT FUCKING LEVEL
spy kids 2:
me, approximately age 9:
“do you think god stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created?” is probably THE hardest line of dialogue ever spoken in the history of modern film and people regularly search google for its origin just to find out steve buscemi said it in a movie about adolescent spies from 2002
I CANNOT stress enough that in the Spy Kids films, Danny Trejo is literally playing his titular character from the Machete movies, who happens to be the kids’ uncle, because the movies have the same director
what this reply misses is that Machete originated *in* Spy Kids. the Machete movies are Spy Kids spinoffs
I think it’s important to make clear that Robert Rodriguez, the director, says that Spy Kids and Machete are alternate universe versions of each other , while Danny Trejo, the actor, says that what happens in Machete is just what he does when he’s not hanging out with the kids
The Spy Kids movies have the exact vibe of when you and your friends are running around in the backyard creating an elaborate story based entirely around whatever random nonsense happens to be lying around. This empty happy meal box is a computer. If I spin this bop-it the right way it will unlock the secret door. We have to get to the jets! (The jets are the swings). My little sister says her pigtails spin around and let her fly and we all agree with that. These swim goggles let me see through walls. There are a series of stepping stones leading to a big rock in the middle of the garden. The rock is the office of the Head Spy and the dirt is actually a bottomless pit, so you have to be careful when you jump across. The bad guys have disabled all our weapons but my necklace is actually a secret super cool weapon that works anyway! There’s logic and continuity but only as much as a bunch of five-to-twelve year olds can keep straight without bothering to keep notes or look up any science facts they don’t already happen to know. This is not a complaint.
This Saturday is the premiere of Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! (after a repeat of the Spy Kids trilogy) That’s right! A Tom and Jerry movie! On the main channel! Not on Boomerang! Ain’t that exciting?
