ridiculous rating

Best movie ever!

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

GAME OVER is the third of the increasingly poor SPY KIDS franchise from director Robert Rodriguez. As I like the director's adult fare I thought I might get a kick out of these too, but they turn out to be very juvenile outings with overacting from the unrestrained child actors and plotting overcome by sheer stupidity. The one consistent thing about the series is the awful quality of the special effects, where you see CGI at its very worse. This time around, most of the story is set in a video game virtual reality world, so at least the graphics have an excuse to be bad. Sylvester Stallone, who you feel sorry for, plays the new villain who the kids have to fight against, but it's all interminable action scenes and unfunny humour. Endless cameos from series regulars like Danny Trejo, George Clooney, Steve Buscemi, and Bill Paxton do nothing to offset the boredom induced by sitting through this nonsense.

Oh man, I just wow, I have never seen a movie that was as good and moving as spy kids 3 the other two are terrible compared to this, I've only cried twice in a movie one of those movies was post man pat the movie the other on... spy kids 3. Spy Kids is a hidden gem and a landmark series in the spy movie genre, I mean James bond more like James Not very good because those movies aren't even half as good as spy kids, the acting 10, the plot 10 and the CGI 10 I thought it was all real until someone told me it wasn't.-Pa Pa Daniel, Movie Magazine

Robert Rodriguez is honestly one of the most frustrating figures in Hollywood that one could follow and be a fan of. From his humble beginnings as a low-budget action director on films like "El Mariachi", to the slick and stylish effects-extravaganzas like "Sin City", Rodriguez has proved time and again that he's a grand storyteller and a valuable member of the filmmaking community. Yet, for every major breakthrough he's played a part in, and for all of his remarkable high- quality releases that wow both critics and audiences alike... there's at least one if not not more significant and wince-inducing missteps that make you question your fandom. For every "Desperado", there's a "Machete Kills"... For every "From Dusk Till Dawn", there's an "Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl." And for every "Spy Kids", there's unfortunately a film like "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over." While I was never quite the target audience for Rodriguez's manic and wild kids-film series, I still could definitely not deny its imagination and creativity. The first two chapters, flawed though they may be, are fine and entertaining features that to this day still thrill and wow children the world over. The same could not be said of the third chapter. Released in the early 2000's when Rodriguez was experimenting with the new digital technology that would become a hallmark of his more recent work, "Game Over" is a frustratingly mediocre follow-up to two otherwise good films, and I think it's pretty clear what the problem is- Rodriguez doesn't really seem to treat this round of "Spy Kids" as anything more than a sophisticated tech-demo. It's not really a movie so much as it's an 80-minute experiment that our writer/director is using to test the bounds of green-screen filmmaking and low-cost visual effects. It's cold, methodical, clinical and frankly boring.Juni Cortez (Daryl Sabara) has retired from the OSS and now lives a quiet life as a child private investigator. However, when he learns that his sister Carmen (Alexa Vega) has been captured and is evidently imprisoned in the Beta of an upcoming virtual-reality video-game called "Game Over", he is forced back into action! He must infiltrate this new game- created by a dastardly villain called "The Toymaker" (Sylvester Stallone), to save his sister and perhaps the world once again! Along the way, he will encounter new friends and allies, and also call on the help of returning characters to stop The Toymaker's evil plans...Honestly, it's really hard to discuss the merits of the film because there's so little happening. Yeah, there's the shell of a plot and one or two minor beats of character establishment and development, but its only there to justify the constant and consistent sequences of green-screen "action." It's obvious that Rodriguez is simply using the film as a platform to play around with his new digital "toys", and the movie suffers for it. The actors appear lost in most of the scenes (presumably because they are, as they awkwardly walk around in front of a blank screen), and what little story there is comes off more like an afterthought than a focus. What makes it all the more confusing is that just a few years later, Rodriguez co-directed the excellent "Sin City", which similarly used a near-exclusive "green screen studio" approach, but it worked. Maybe his experience and mistakes with this film helped him to learn what to do and what not?Really, the only thing I can address is the quality of the effects and the nature of the action, and that is what just barely salvages the film. While the digital animation is pretty low-quality, it works as it was attempting to emulate video-games, so it gave it a sort-of appropriately-dated quality that I enjoyed. The action can be dull quite often, but a few sequences do adequate jobs at wowing the audience, so there's some fun to be had with the video-game concept. I also felt the early use of "modern 3-D" was charming, and while it mainly consists of throwing something in the audience's face every few minutes, it worked well enough. I might not be a fan of the old-fashioned Red/Cyan glasses approach, but the 3-D gave it a sense of kitschy fun. I also did enjoy the rampant cameos of characters from the previous films, and I think they'll likely delight young children.As it stands, "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" is a disappointing and forgettable sequel in the franchise, and won't likely win any new fans. Its just a series of loosely-connected CGI action set-pieces with a paper-thin plot to tie them together. But I think there's just enough dumb fun to be had with just enough key sequences that massive fans of the first two might wanna consider giving it a shot at least once. Everyone else need not apply, though.It gets a below-average 4 out of 10 from me.

Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker (Stallone). It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world. Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over is the kind of film that you know it's dumb and the cgi is awful but that was what it was trying to be from the start a kids movie it tries to entertain them in that way and if you have a kid in you you won't be disappointed. Sylvester Stallone as the Toymaker is over the top and throws some puns but it works and unlike Batman & Robin most of the humor or even action works cause it's a film for kids and not a Franchise that started dark and turned into a live action cartoon. Also that final battle was pretty awesome you had Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton and the rest of their family and friends to come over and defeat the Toymaker and although the 3D gets a bit of pain in my head after a while it was alright but i would prefer it to be without it. Also Elijah Wood has a cameo as the Guy and it was so bad and laughable that it actually works and it's pretty funny how the in the end credits they put some behind the scenes video and George Clooney says something like "My career will end from this" or something like that he is basically the reason why Batman was rebooted but anyways this is the type of film that you know it's dumb, over the top and cheesy and in a way it's my guilty pleasure and i liked it a lot.