Spy Kids 4D : All the Time in the World
Review by Anthony Morris
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The Smurfs 3D
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The Spy Kids franchise has always been extremely confident – and competent – in doing what it does.
It's
what it does that's the problem : loud, frantic, noisy makes with cheap
but effective special effects and cheap but ineffective jokes, they're
the kind of film that either leave you feeling like you've just downed
a sack of sugar or make you wish you'd been hitting the sugar hard just
to keep up.
After the near-incomprehensible third instalment
(in 3D back when that still mean red / green celluloid glasses) things
settle down a little here with next generation spy kids Rebecca (Rowan
Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) discovering that their stepmom
(Jessica Alba) is actually a spy and pretty much everything around them
is actually some kind of super-powered spy gadget.
That's spy as in "loud, noisy, blow everything up" by the way, not the sneaking around kind. The
old Spy Kids in from old Spy Kids movies makes a return as everyone
teams up to defeat the evil Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven) by making a lot
of fart jokes and blowing everything up apart from Argonaut, a robot
dog voiced by Ricky Gervais. It takes a certain level of
skill to make a film that's manic but also kind of boring, though
having it be in 3D and feature scratch n sniff cards for the odor-rama
sequences doesn't hurt.
Don't worry if you lose your card, the
smells aren't exactly a high-point of this cartoony (in all the wrong
ways), annoying film. 2 out
of 5
Spy Kids 4D
Australian release: 22nd September,
2011
Official
Site: Spy Kids 4D
Cast: Jessica Alba, Antonio Banderas, Jeremy Piven
Director: Robert Rodriguez
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