Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams

The original film was entertaining; the same cannot be said for the sequel. The idea that kids could rescue their super spy parents was novel in the first film, and that’s why it worked. This one takes it to a whole new level with the kids playing spies with so much power and influence that they can even boss the President of the United States around. If that wasn’t enough to lose me, the special effects and gadgets are so over the top that they are just annoying. There isn’t any reason for me to go into the plot of this movie, because there really is none. It’s just an excuse for the kids to play with all of their spy gadgets and show how incompetent all of the adults in the film are. The only redeeming part of this movie is that it gets Ricardo Montalban back on the screen again. Too bad his part was so tiny. It might have been a better movie had he been given a larger role. It certainly couldn’t have hurt.