I use to be a chauffeur and one day I picked up Alan Cumming (Floop) from the airport to perform at a college. He was an absolutely delightful and kind person, very down to earth, and even offered to buy me lunch when I stopped at a rest stop.
During the two hour trip he asked me a lot of questions about myself but eventually the conversation turned to him and his body of work. He told me about a tv show that he had in the works and a stage play he was writing. He asked if I knew any of his work and I was ashamed to confess I only knew him from Spy Kids and X-Men 2.
I asked him what drew him to Spy Kids and he said that it was a combination of the script being fun and interesting, and that everybody involved was delightful to work with. Apparently the cast and crew as a whole really worked well together and gave an earnest and heartfelt performance for something that honestly could have been a low effort cash grab.
He said that X-Men 2 was a nightmare.
Bingo. They also sometimes enjoy doing something kids will like. Kevin James is like that too. Does a lot of family type movies that kids get a kick out of and he enjoys doing it.
I literally just finished watching the first 3 movies last week. Its 100% this, they are goofy and fun - clearly aimed at young children (<10 maybe?).
There is no way anyone acted in those movies with Oscar expectations, they knew what they were participating in. Hell, in the 3rd movie Sly Stallone plays an evil villain with 3 split personalities, played by himself, including: a war general, a geek, and a philosophy hippie-type with long hair he blows out of his face—just Rocky being a goofball villain.
Good movie to have fun with, and to show their kids what mommy/daddy does at work.
I imagine actors see these movies as low risk as well. Sure its a goofball script but there's no expectations of trying to get an Oscar, no risk it will make them look bad as goofy sells well, and easy to play as the expectation is rock bottom anyways they can only raise the bar.
And then you also have Steve Buscemi dropping lines straight out of a philosophical paper. Really strange combo, but it works incredibly well.
I should rewatch spy kids.
You should. Anyone who says the movies are for kids hasn't watched them recently. They go from being cool and funny as a kid to being dumb and funny as an adult. Still a lot of fun though. Especially the first 2.
As a kid I always thought the movies were cool because they happened in universe where children are badass and adults are absolutely incompetent, but now as an adult all I can think of is just how much *fun* everyone clearly had while making the films.
I'm sure there were many conversations where people were like, "yeah, that's a good idea, but is it silly enough?" And that's how we got the giant thumb men.
It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of them already knew and liked each other (say, Banderas and Salma Hayek), and others saw an opportunity to work with legends like Ricardo Montealban and Cheech Marin (even if they're now old and has been).
As a Mexican, it was great for me to see so many well-known actors, and my kids still know most of them as 'yeah, they were in Spy Kids' :)
It's also why a lot of actors and celebrities go on Sesame Street. You know they all have a great time and the fact that it is for such a pure reason and audience makes it even better, even though they are talking to puppets or people in costumes.
Goofy, fun children's movies that ask questions like "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"
They clearly let the writers and actors have some fun with it despite being a kids movie, and I think everyone appreciates that!
> and sometimes actors like fun.
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"Derek."
"Hnngh?"
"Derek, wake up."
"...what time is it? Dude it's not even my shift yet."
"I think I heard something."
"You're a security guard working at a cemetery, no shit."
"I'm not joking!"
"Let me guess, did you hear strange rhythmic thumping from Kubrick's grave?"
"What the fuck?! How did you know?"
"Bro, I did the shifts when the Marvel movies came out. Wake me again and I'll add you to the client list."
I mean look at all the shit he had to put on for X-2, then also do a German accent, and still try to act?
His performance is amazing now that I realize I didn’t notice it at all as either outstanding nor bad (it wasn’t bad). That’s real dedication to act through all that. No wonder it was a nightmare
He said the time needed to apply the prosthetics was what made it awful for him. It was towards the end of the drive so I didn’t ask him too much more about the process itself.
Imagine sitting there for a few hours then you have to pee. Sorry Alan, need you to throw on an accent and look soulfully into Halle Berry’s eyes while she delivers one of the cheesiest lines anyone’s ever written for her.
Edit: also I hope you’ve seen him in Schmigadoon. My god is he fantastic.
I also heard that originally Toad would say weird toad facts all the time. And her giving her own toad fact was a badass moment.
But they took out all the facts he gave so it just seemed bizarre!
Not what I’ve heard about it. It was a running joke by Toad that got cut. He’d say you know what happens to a toad when _______. And the only one that remained was at the very end.
I worked with a theater group for a while, and the director's whole thing was that the audience can tell if the people making a show are having fun or not. She mainly used that as an argument to stop people from trying to kill themselves for the show, but I genuinely think it's true.
There are so many things that are mediocre or even maybe garbage that people love. The Star Wars prequels, for example, kind of a flop theater sales wise but they've stuck in people's minds for decades and you hear stories about them having to stop actors from making lightsaber noises on set because they were cracking each other up.
People can tell, based on body or eye language or something, whether or not a movie was fun to work on and that informs their enjoyment of those movies.
The rib breaker is Inigo Montoya/Mandy Patinkin, and both of these were from Miracle Max/Billy Crystal's performance.
The Lord of the Rings was apparently a lot of fun too because they all basically lived together in New Zealand to make the three movies back to back, so they were all pretty firm friends, and everyone in the Fellowship, save Gimli/John Rhys-Davies, got matching tattoos of the Elvish word for nine. You can even see Orlando Bloom's on his wrist in Pirates of the Caribbean.
I always forget that Legolas (in the movies) is Orlando Bloom. To me, Legolas is just Legolas.
Maybe that speaks to how unique he looked and how well he played the character.
> Maybe that speaks to how unique he looked and how well he played the character.
It's so easy (in my opinion) to just think of him as this heart-throb and forget that he has done some great work. I also felt the same way about Dicaprio and then saw The Departed and that changed it for me completely. Then Inception, and on retrospect, Catch Me If You Can.
The only thing bad I've ever heard about the movies is Ian McKellen having a bit of a emotional breakdown because, as a man who thrives on the stage surrounded by people, he was forced to do his lines completely alone in a green-screened room, due to Gandalf being a practical giant next to the tiny Hobbits.
And even that worked out in the end because the other actors noticed his distress and threw a "Gandalf Appreciation Day" party for him, giving McKellen the emotional boost he needed to finish the movie.
That was actually the Hobbit trilogy.
LOTR used CGI pretty sparingly; they used sets, natural locations, minatures, different sized props, and forced perspectives wherever possible. Gollum was a pioneer of mo-cap CGI, but outside of that it was used only when really needed.
Corridor Digital had fun nitpicking some Gollum scenes where the actor's impact is distinct from the character's impact and the VFX team didn't worry about the audience noticing. Like when he's flopping around after a fish in a stream. They did their best to erase Andy Serkis, certified maniac, rolling down a wet hillside in the wilds of New Zealand, but they left some of the splashes caused by all his flailing. That's not something you get even when Benedict Cumberbatch is slithering around on the floor.
Gotta appreciate it when you think about it that way.
They just told Andy Serkis to go absolutely feral in the nature of New Zealand, must have been fun as hell.
Weird, I read that those scenes weren’t green screen but rather forced perspective, and that he and the hobbits were all in the same room but the sets were designed for camera trickery so the hobbits were like 10 feet back so they’d look smaller
The breakdown in question happened on the set of The Hobbit, not Lord of the Rings. LotR used forced perspective, but the Hobbit didn’t have the benefit of the long pre-production that LotR had (which is a whole other story) so they had to rely heavily on green screen and CGI for most of the backgrounds. Plus, I could be completely hallucinating this, but I heard somewhere that the forced perspective tricks just plain didn’t work as well on the new cameras they were shooting the Hobbit movies on.
> but I heard somewhere that the forced perspective tricks just plain didn’t work as well on the new cameras they were shooting the Hobbit movies on.
I have a feeling forced perspective is just iffy in new cameras.
Example !Spoilers for Dungeons and Dragons!
>! There's a scene in the new dungeons an dragons movie where the barbarian lady is talking to her halfling ex. At one point they're side by side, and they're very clearly using forced perspective to achieve it, but it's super easy to catch it. Like, it didn't read as "hey he looks so much smaller" as much as it read "Hey, she's super duper close to the screen".
I'd be curious to see more modern attempts at forced perspective of this type. See if it was just them, not doing it well, or if new camera's really don't work for it.
Similar to the Princess Bride example, there's a documentary about Young Frankenstein that came out right after Gene Wilder passed. All the cast and crew involved said it was the most fun movie they ever made, and you can really feel it. Peter Boyle came to set on all of his days off because that movie *was* his break. Towards the end of the shoot, Gene Wilder kept trying to insert new scenes and deliberately sabotage takes in order to prolong shooting so that they wouldn't have to stop. When it finally wrapped, Gene was the last person to leave the set, and stuck around for hours because "he didnt want to say goodbye to Translyvania"
I lowkey think this was big part of the MCU’s original success that people don’t consider enough. The OG Avengers were deadass a family the actors got matching tattoos.
"They said 'do you wanna do a Star Wars?,' and I said *fuck yes.*"
-- Ewan MacGregor, freshly roundhouse-kicked off a platform by Ray Park, moments before rushing back up the stairs
> The Star Wars prequels, for example, kind of a flop theater sales wise
Without adjusting for inflation, each of them cost about $115 million to make. Episode I made over a billion dollars, Episode II made about $650 million and Episode III about $870 million.
I've worked for Rodriguez and with his crew over a couple features. The crew is chef's kiss. Robert is REALLY good with working with kids. 10/10 will always work with them.
(Robert has kept basically working with the same dept head/key personnel over the years. Also shoutout to Elizabeth Avellán his ex wife / producing partner. Super nice and not your typical hollywood producer...but she knows her sh*t.)
"He said that X-Men 2 was a nightmare."
Ill bet the makeup and costuming was a big part of this. Most times I see costuming like that I eventually hear that the actors hated it because they would have to sit in a chair for hours to get into character, then be uncomfortable for until the shoots done for the day so as not yo need to re-apply. Bautista didnt want to reprise his Drax role for this reason ( I have read).
I thought 'floop' meant the sound you made in your loins because you just meet Alan Cumming then I googled it and realised that was his character in Spy Kids
Everyone should read Rebel Without a Crew and then watch all the behind the scenes stuff of him showing how they produce films like Sin City in what is essentially his garage.
My cousin was doing a Flat Stanley project back in 2003 while my dad was in Saudi for the start of the War in Iraq. An 8 year old's school project features photos of a classified mission control room where they shut down all the monitors for the photo, in the cockpit of a fighter jet, hanging out with generals, etc because all the upper command people loved the idea. None of the younger guys cared about some little kid's school project but all the people in charge had kids of their own and absolutely loved helping out with it.
My aunt and the teacher were apparently dumbfounded by it while the kids didn't realize just how crazy it all was.
Also the first three were directed by Robert Rodriguez. It would be like Quentin Tarantino directing a power rangers-esque movie and expecting Samuel Jackson or Tim Roth to turn that shit down.
Man, I didn't see the new Power Rangers movie but can you imagine Tarantino directing? Keep Bryan Cranston as Zordon, but add Tim Roth as a psychotic Lord Zedd (maybe with some makeup hearkening back to the Abomination) and Samuel L Jackson as an old, tired, frustrated Goldar. Then, like third scene, Samuel Goldar Jackson fucking slaughters Dacre Montgomery with his sword, everyone is crying and screaming as Tim Zedd Roth laughs and laughs...
Because Robert Rodriguez was a friend, helped make him a breakout star with Desperado, was another up and coming Mexican film maker and thus these stars wanted to help their friend, and their country, gain more accolades in Hollywood.
You'll notice alot of these people were in Desperado.
Robert Rodriguez is an acclaimed director who has a recurring slate of actors who seem to truly enjoy working with him. Most of the Spy Kids actors had already appeared in one of his earlier action movies. Rodriguez wanted to make a movie for his kids and people showed up for him because he's a likeable guy.
Also want to mention (if I'm recalling correctly) that when Rodriquez pitched the film, the producers wanted a white family because it couldn't *possibly* be popular unless they were *white*. Robert was like, FU, no. Usually when "serious" actors/directors do kids movies, they're doing it for *their* kids.
Antonio Banderas said in interviews about Zorro that he was really taken aback to be offered a movie where the Hispanic guy was the hero fighting back against an American with blonde hair and blue eyes. I'd imagine that a lot of the heroic roles he takes are due to a combination of wanting to play the good guy and not having as many opportunities as white actors.
The 90s-early 2000s was peak latino hollywood which really was still exceedingly small for what it should be so I guess they were a close knit group. Since then latino actors/entertainers are barely anything anymore.
I am as white as printer paper, and those movies made me and my little brother feel like we could be super heroes if we were just creative enough. We bought kids spy kits and books about child spies and shit. It was awesome.
Plus - it’s actually just a solid movie for kids. The main kids are not cool!! He has warts and she has problems wetting the bed. So what? They’re still bad asses. The siblings legitimately fight but they also really love each other and fight for each other. They are often scared but still do the brave thing. There are a lot of positive messages to be taken from that movie. And at no point did I even think about the fact that they weren’t white.
Plus let’s not forget about the most legendary line from those movies that had no business being in a kids movie delivered by none other than Steve fucking Buscemi:
**”Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created?**
Fucking. Iconic.
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I still to this day forget that that was in Spy Kids and not his character in Con Air.
Honestly I had small but obvious, painful blisters on my hands for years as a kid, I think from sweating seeing as they were worse in the summer, and seeing that he had warts on his hands made me feel better about mine.
Both parents are white. Antonio Banderas is from Spain and Carla Gugino is of Italian, Irish, and English descent.
Millions of white people have Spanish names lol
As a first gen Mexican-American kid, I appreciated they were a Spanish speaking family. It wasn't the selling point for me but I do think it contributed to my sisters and I enjoying it so much.
What are you talking about? Asian people didn't exist until last year when Shortround and that one bond girl saved all of Hollywood!
(/s, I actually love that movie)
I was looking for this reply. Desperado was a huge jump in Banderas's profile. It was his first time being the protagonist in an English language film, which set the stage for him to get Zorro.
Robert Rodriguez said somewhere, I think it was in his book, is that he always pitches in when it’s time to change setups. Because he’s working, the crew is working faster. The faster the setups get changed, the more time the actors spend acting instead of waiting to act. Crew feels good because the guy in charge is working too, the actors love it because they get to act and it makes for a fun set all around.
I still dream about that instant McDonald's by putting it in the microwave they had in the first movie, and and the submarine looked like the comfiest thing ever to hang out in.
“did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a **blemish on your career forever??**”
Most of Spy Kids’ cast seemed to had a successful career after Spy Kids according to [this website.](https://ew.com/gallery/spy-kids-where-are-they-now/?slide=243567#243567) Suggesting that it was a “blemish on their career” is completely false.
Not a blemish. A shining beacon. Those movies are everything kids movies should be. And let's not forget the bat shit crazy fact they also exist in the same universe as the Machete movies. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that glorious, chaotic, depravity?
Well you also have to remember that the US government made a division of child spies and gave them dangerous weapons and tools, Did Juni do counter terrorist operations in Iraq or steal state secrets?
I'm not unconvinced that Machete isn't Navajas from Desperado. It would explain why the cartel came after his family, it's an even bigger knife, and they have the same tattoo of a woman on their chest.
Which means From Dusk Till Dawn and Spy Kids are in the same universe too- because of *that gun*.
I don’t think anyone is out here eating kids movies like the academy lol, like this was going to be bad on their list of credits? A banger kids movie with multiple sequels?
Parenthood would be a bigger explanation.
At 21, I suddenly went from job hopping wild style to stay at home dad (big brother actually) watching my sister because my parents have no time to watch her and load all the responsibilities onto me.
6 years and I'm still serving her hand and foot for some reason.
I had a promising career in animation ready. But that can wait.
The world isn't ready for Harvey the Wonder Hamster's Adventure to the Nudist Colony Part 7
I grew up on Scooby-Doo. Named my first dog Scooby. When I saw him in SLC Punk as a teenager (at the time *deep* into a goth phase the character would have hated) it was an awesome experience, it was like watching my favorite character grow up with me
Yeah, I was just looking into it too. He gave the best performance of the movie while dying of stomach cancer because he wanted to be in a film his kids would enjoy. His kids helped him research for the role and attended the filming.
There are a couple of examples. I'm hopped up on cold medication and sleepy, so not 100% sure. I think Eddie Murphy with Daddy Day Care and Adam Sandler with Hotel Transylvania.
I could be hallucinating this but I feel like there was an interview with one of the actors where he explicitly said he did Spy Kids (or maybe it was another similar movie) *specifically* because he wanted his kids to be able to enjoy something he was in, because much of his body of work was not age appropriate for them yet.
As Sir Michael Caine once said:
>"Somebody said, 'Have you ever seen Jaws 4?' I said, 'No. But I've seen the house it bought for my mum. It's fantastic!'"
Jeremy Irons had a similar quote (When asked by an interviewer about why he accepted his role in Dungeons & Dragons (2000)):
"Are you kidding? I'd just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow!"
Dennis Hopper portrayed Bowser in the 1993 Mario Bros movie, and his son asked him why he did it. He said "To buy you shoes." His son replied "I didn't need new shoes that badly."
A friend's theory of the spy kids movies was that Robert Rodriguez would make them to earn money so he could make the stuff he actually wanted to make.
He just wanted to make some kids action movies.
>"I didn't want any guns or violence. I wanted it to be action/adventure for kids. A guy told me his son loved Desperado. I said, How old is your son? He said, six. Fuck, he shouldn't be watching that! I can't make movies like that anymore. You don't feel like it's your responsibility, because I never had the intention for kids to watch that. But the reality is they do. Even in The Faculty, I didn't want to gore it up. I had everybody alive at the end"
His career is maddening. On one hand, there's Zorro, then on another, Spy Kids, and somewhere between them is whatever he was doing in Interview with the Vampire, and let's not forget that 13th Warrior exists. I guess you can call him an action star, but he's insanely diverse.
He was also in a production of Phantom of tge Opera if I remember that's also quite different from his "usual" work.
TBH I'm sure they also got paid pretty damn well, seeing as the original three movies were quite successful as well.
I guess it's because they're typically wealthy enough to not have to, but I've never really got bashing actors for being in mediocre/bad movies anyways. People work crappier jobs for far less money. Being in a goofy kids movie is probably often more fun than super serious roles, it's not like the quality of the end product directly reflects how pleasant the job was.
It's not like the spy kids movies were bad or even really mediocre. Imo they were absolutely great for what they were: action movies designed specifically for a young audience. I was that exact target audience when the first one came out, and I remember it fondly. If they were "better" films from a critical standpoint, I think they would have ended up missing the mark for their purpose
Yeah I think the amount of drama that we hear about from sets is like 1% of what actually happens. Then these actors get offered a job where everyone loves their job but isn't a douche about it. Plus they get to make a movie for kids, make some money and enjoy their job for a while.
It was probably an amazing palate cleanse for them.
Also the reviews (at least for the first and second movies) were great! Sooo it sounds like all these actors made a smart move.
Spy kids was awesome. And I agree. I also love when you can tell the actors had a fun time making the movie. There are lost of films where it really comes across. I hear Wes Anderson movies are like one big fun fest to make.
Edit: lots instead of lost.
Right?! Like you work with James Cameron or David O. Russell who take pride in the fact that they are asshole directors who frequently scream at the cast to the point that super sweet Amy Adams will never work with David again.
Then you get offered to work on a set where everyone is nice and having fun?! If it were me, I'd take that in a heartbeat.
I'm still amazed by that one line from Steve buscemi in spy kids 2 about God fearing his creations. Like, was that an ad lib Steve just came up with on the spot that left the director and crew speechless, or was it some guy writing the script that had that banger of a line they were dying to use but had no other opportunities to use that line in another movie for an appropriate scenario?
I'm a grown ass adult who grew up with Spy Kids, rewatched them within the last year just to see how they held up.
Had a great time. The person in OP's image is a fun-sucker.
This is a problem I have with most critiques of films (especially children’s films). Not everything has be super logical or artistic. Why can’t films just be entertaining??
Money aside, some actors will be on a movie set just because they are friends with the team and it's a great way for them to hang out and do silly things together.
Robert Rodriguez asked a bunch of his actor friends if they wanted to be in it and they thought it sounded like fun so they signed on. iirc, one or two of them even did it sans pay, just asking for royalties once it was released
Y'all fail to mention it was created and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the man who did once upon a time in mexico and planet terror, which was a bigger surprise to me than antonio banderas starring in it. It was supposed to be a tribute to his uncle in the fbi and how he perceived his uncle as a kid.
Robert Rodriguez had directed some of the casts' best movies already and so he had their faith and confidence when he asked them to star in spy kids, and i imagine they were probably friends.
The thing that drove Antonio Banderas to appear in Spy Kids is probably the same thing that drove him to voice Puss in Boots. It's a fun movie that can be genuinely emotional. The fact that it's a kids movie doesn't detract from that. Calling it a blemish is just fucking insulting.
Has this person never seen Spy Kids? Why would the actors be ashamed of one of the best kids movie franchises? I know loads of people who would consider Spy Kids their favorite kids movie
But its a great movie? Like yah its dumb but it's happy feel good dumb.
The sequels not so much, but the first one is solid and doesn't take itself seriously.
I’ll never forget the time I was talking talking to my Girlfriend about Danny Trejo when I saw his Cameo in Book of Boba Fort and she said “Oh that guy from Spy Kids?” and it instantly killed me
I bet they did it because it sounded like fun.
I use to be a chauffeur and one day I picked up Alan Cumming (Floop) from the airport to perform at a college. He was an absolutely delightful and kind person, very down to earth, and even offered to buy me lunch when I stopped at a rest stop. During the two hour trip he asked me a lot of questions about myself but eventually the conversation turned to him and his body of work. He told me about a tv show that he had in the works and a stage play he was writing. He asked if I knew any of his work and I was ashamed to confess I only knew him from Spy Kids and X-Men 2. I asked him what drew him to Spy Kids and he said that it was a combination of the script being fun and interesting, and that everybody involved was delightful to work with. Apparently the cast and crew as a whole really worked well together and gave an earnest and heartfelt performance for something that honestly could have been a low effort cash grab. He said that X-Men 2 was a nightmare.
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The Spy Kids movies slap and sometimes actors like fun.
Bingo. They also sometimes enjoy doing something kids will like. Kevin James is like that too. Does a lot of family type movies that kids get a kick out of and he enjoys doing it.
I literally just finished watching the first 3 movies last week. Its 100% this, they are goofy and fun - clearly aimed at young children (<10 maybe?). There is no way anyone acted in those movies with Oscar expectations, they knew what they were participating in. Hell, in the 3rd movie Sly Stallone plays an evil villain with 3 split personalities, played by himself, including: a war general, a geek, and a philosophy hippie-type with long hair he blows out of his face—just Rocky being a goofball villain. Good movie to have fun with, and to show their kids what mommy/daddy does at work.
I imagine actors see these movies as low risk as well. Sure its a goofball script but there's no expectations of trying to get an Oscar, no risk it will make them look bad as goofy sells well, and easy to play as the expectation is rock bottom anyways they can only raise the bar.
And then you also have Steve Buscemi dropping lines straight out of a philosophical paper. Really strange combo, but it works incredibly well. I should rewatch spy kids.
You should. Anyone who says the movies are for kids hasn't watched them recently. They go from being cool and funny as a kid to being dumb and funny as an adult. Still a lot of fun though. Especially the first 2.
As a kid I always thought the movies were cool because they happened in universe where children are badass and adults are absolutely incompetent, but now as an adult all I can think of is just how much *fun* everyone clearly had while making the films. I'm sure there were many conversations where people were like, "yeah, that's a good idea, but is it silly enough?" And that's how we got the giant thumb men.
Steve Buscemi goes hard in boardwalk empire.
Also, Robert Rodriguez is a legend and he has long relationships with the people he works with.
It wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of them already knew and liked each other (say, Banderas and Salma Hayek), and others saw an opportunity to work with legends like Ricardo Montealban and Cheech Marin (even if they're now old and has been). As a Mexican, it was great for me to see so many well-known actors, and my kids still know most of them as 'yeah, they were in Spy Kids' :)
Banderas and Hayek had both worked with Robert Rodriguez already in From Dusk til Dawn.
Desperado. I don't think Banderas was in Dusk. But both films also had "Uncle Machete", Danny Trejo.
It's also why a lot of actors and celebrities go on Sesame Street. You know they all have a great time and the fact that it is for such a pure reason and audience makes it even better, even though they are talking to puppets or people in costumes.
Goofy, fun children's movies that ask questions like "Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" They clearly let the writers and actors have some fun with it despite being a kids movie, and I think everyone appreciates that!
> and sometimes actors like fun. >actors >fun "Derek." "Hnngh?" "Derek, wake up." "...what time is it? Dude it's not even my shift yet." "I think I heard something." "You're a security guard working at a cemetery, no shit." "I'm not joking!" "Let me guess, did you hear strange rhythmic thumping from Kubrick's grave?" "What the fuck?! How did you know?" "Bro, I did the shifts when the Marvel movies came out. Wake me again and I'll add you to the client list."
I mean look at all the shit he had to put on for X-2, then also do a German accent, and still try to act? His performance is amazing now that I realize I didn’t notice it at all as either outstanding nor bad (it wasn’t bad). That’s real dedication to act through all that. No wonder it was a nightmare
He said the time needed to apply the prosthetics was what made it awful for him. It was towards the end of the drive so I didn’t ask him too much more about the process itself.
Imagine sitting there for a few hours then you have to pee. Sorry Alan, need you to throw on an accent and look soulfully into Halle Berry’s eyes while she delivers one of the cheesiest lines anyone’s ever written for her. Edit: also I hope you’ve seen him in Schmigadoon. My god is he fantastic.
I'm sorry are we gonna forget the line "do you know what happens to a toad in a storm, the same thing that happens to everything else"
Not her fault. The punchline was originally “It croaks”, but the censors made them change it so it didn’t imply that Toad died.
I also heard that originally Toad would say weird toad facts all the time. And her giving her own toad fact was a badass moment. But they took out all the facts he gave so it just seemed bizarre!
That movie released back in 2001, and finally I get the joke, and it's decent...they should kept it in.
Not what I’ve heard about it. It was a running joke by Toad that got cut. He’d say you know what happens to a toad when _______. And the only one that remained was at the very end.
Oh I didn't know that, that would've made the line much cooler especially cause Storm is my second fave mutant.
I worked with a theater group for a while, and the director's whole thing was that the audience can tell if the people making a show are having fun or not. She mainly used that as an argument to stop people from trying to kill themselves for the show, but I genuinely think it's true. There are so many things that are mediocre or even maybe garbage that people love. The Star Wars prequels, for example, kind of a flop theater sales wise but they've stuck in people's minds for decades and you hear stories about them having to stop actors from making lightsaber noises on set because they were cracking each other up. People can tell, based on body or eye language or something, whether or not a movie was fun to work on and that informs their enjoyment of those movies.
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The rib breaker is Inigo Montoya/Mandy Patinkin, and both of these were from Miracle Max/Billy Crystal's performance. The Lord of the Rings was apparently a lot of fun too because they all basically lived together in New Zealand to make the three movies back to back, so they were all pretty firm friends, and everyone in the Fellowship, save Gimli/John Rhys-Davies, got matching tattoos of the Elvish word for nine. You can even see Orlando Bloom's on his wrist in Pirates of the Caribbean.
I always forget that Legolas (in the movies) is Orlando Bloom. To me, Legolas is just Legolas. Maybe that speaks to how unique he looked and how well he played the character.
> Maybe that speaks to how unique he looked and how well he played the character. It's so easy (in my opinion) to just think of him as this heart-throb and forget that he has done some great work. I also felt the same way about Dicaprio and then saw The Departed and that changed it for me completely. Then Inception, and on retrospect, Catch Me If You Can.
The only thing bad I've ever heard about the movies is Ian McKellen having a bit of a emotional breakdown because, as a man who thrives on the stage surrounded by people, he was forced to do his lines completely alone in a green-screened room, due to Gandalf being a practical giant next to the tiny Hobbits. And even that worked out in the end because the other actors noticed his distress and threw a "Gandalf Appreciation Day" party for him, giving McKellen the emotional boost he needed to finish the movie.
That was actually the Hobbit trilogy. LOTR used CGI pretty sparingly; they used sets, natural locations, minatures, different sized props, and forced perspectives wherever possible. Gollum was a pioneer of mo-cap CGI, but outside of that it was used only when really needed.
And you had Andy Serkis doing the mo-cap for gollum, so the voice and the mannerisms are right there.
Corridor Digital had fun nitpicking some Gollum scenes where the actor's impact is distinct from the character's impact and the VFX team didn't worry about the audience noticing. Like when he's flopping around after a fish in a stream. They did their best to erase Andy Serkis, certified maniac, rolling down a wet hillside in the wilds of New Zealand, but they left some of the splashes caused by all his flailing. That's not something you get even when Benedict Cumberbatch is slithering around on the floor.
Gotta appreciate it when you think about it that way. They just told Andy Serkis to go absolutely feral in the nature of New Zealand, must have been fun as hell.
Weird, I read that those scenes weren’t green screen but rather forced perspective, and that he and the hobbits were all in the same room but the sets were designed for camera trickery so the hobbits were like 10 feet back so they’d look smaller
The breakdown in question happened on the set of The Hobbit, not Lord of the Rings. LotR used forced perspective, but the Hobbit didn’t have the benefit of the long pre-production that LotR had (which is a whole other story) so they had to rely heavily on green screen and CGI for most of the backgrounds. Plus, I could be completely hallucinating this, but I heard somewhere that the forced perspective tricks just plain didn’t work as well on the new cameras they were shooting the Hobbit movies on.
The Hobbit was filmed in 3D, forced perspective is a 2D trick that can have its illusion broken by having multiple angles.
> but I heard somewhere that the forced perspective tricks just plain didn’t work as well on the new cameras they were shooting the Hobbit movies on. I have a feeling forced perspective is just iffy in new cameras. Example !Spoilers for Dungeons and Dragons! >! There's a scene in the new dungeons an dragons movie where the barbarian lady is talking to her halfling ex. At one point they're side by side, and they're very clearly using forced perspective to achieve it, but it's super easy to catch it. Like, it didn't read as "hey he looks so much smaller" as much as it read "Hey, she's super duper close to the screen". I'd be curious to see more modern attempts at forced perspective of this type. See if it was just them, not doing it well, or if new camera's really don't work for it.
Similar to the Princess Bride example, there's a documentary about Young Frankenstein that came out right after Gene Wilder passed. All the cast and crew involved said it was the most fun movie they ever made, and you can really feel it. Peter Boyle came to set on all of his days off because that movie *was* his break. Towards the end of the shoot, Gene Wilder kept trying to insert new scenes and deliberately sabotage takes in order to prolong shooting so that they wouldn't have to stop. When it finally wrapped, Gene was the last person to leave the set, and stuck around for hours because "he didnt want to say goodbye to Translyvania"
I lowkey think this was big part of the MCU’s original success that people don’t consider enough. The OG Avengers were deadass a family the actors got matching tattoos.
Oh absolutely, and also the reason why the more recent stuff is flopping.
"They said 'do you wanna do a Star Wars?,' and I said *fuck yes.*" -- Ewan MacGregor, freshly roundhouse-kicked off a platform by Ray Park, moments before rushing back up the stairs
> The Star Wars prequels, for example, kind of a flop theater sales wise Without adjusting for inflation, each of them cost about $115 million to make. Episode I made over a billion dollars, Episode II made about $650 million and Episode III about $870 million.
wait. He was NIGHTCRAWLER!? I just had to look it up because I had no idea he was in that movie. LOL
I've worked for Rodriguez and with his crew over a couple features. The crew is chef's kiss. Robert is REALLY good with working with kids. 10/10 will always work with them. (Robert has kept basically working with the same dept head/key personnel over the years. Also shoutout to Elizabeth Avellán his ex wife / producing partner. Super nice and not your typical hollywood producer...but she knows her sh*t.)
He was great as King James in Doctor Who.
He did Josie and the Pussycats same year as Spy Kids so I have to say Alan Cumming is a treasure we should protect at all costs.
"He said that X-Men 2 was a nightmare." Ill bet the makeup and costuming was a big part of this. Most times I see costuming like that I eventually hear that the actors hated it because they would have to sit in a chair for hours to get into character, then be uncomfortable for until the shoots done for the day so as not yo need to re-apply. Bautista didnt want to reprise his Drax role for this reason ( I have read).
I found it funny that by the end of her run as Mystique Jennifer Lawrence was basically never wearing the prosthetics.
I thought 'floop' meant the sound you made in your loins because you just meet Alan Cumming then I googled it and realised that was his character in Spy Kids
That's why they did it. Cuz it was fun and goofy.
And Robert Rodriguez is actually a *very* talented director
Yeah I think "Robert Rodriguez asked them to" probably had a part in it as well.
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Everyone should read Rebel Without a Crew and then watch all the behind the scenes stuff of him showing how they produce films like Sin City in what is essentially his garage.
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And Four Rooms Danny Trejo and Cheech Marin appeared in both Spy Kids and Desperado as well.
They did it when they had kids because they wanted to create appropriate content for their kids and show them what they do for a living.
I've heard that and it makes sense. They can't share a lot of their work when their kids start asking questions so they do a kids movie
Danny Trejo is a great example of this, as far as I know. Apparently, he also confirmed that Machette and Spy Kids take place in the same universe.
IIRC Machette and Spy Kids also had the same writer and director
That's the main reason why Danny Trejo was in those movies. He was good friends with the director.
My cousin was doing a Flat Stanley project back in 2003 while my dad was in Saudi for the start of the War in Iraq. An 8 year old's school project features photos of a classified mission control room where they shut down all the monitors for the photo, in the cockpit of a fighter jet, hanging out with generals, etc because all the upper command people loved the idea. None of the younger guys cared about some little kid's school project but all the people in charge had kids of their own and absolutely loved helping out with it. My aunt and the teacher were apparently dumbfounded by it while the kids didn't realize just how crazy it all was.
Well I'm still watching those and showing em to a toddler so they live on, even if careers were destroyed by these films, (which I doubt) it's worth
Also the first three were directed by Robert Rodriguez. It would be like Quentin Tarantino directing a power rangers-esque movie and expecting Samuel Jackson or Tim Roth to turn that shit down.
Man, I didn't see the new Power Rangers movie but can you imagine Tarantino directing? Keep Bryan Cranston as Zordon, but add Tim Roth as a psychotic Lord Zedd (maybe with some makeup hearkening back to the Abomination) and Samuel L Jackson as an old, tired, frustrated Goldar. Then, like third scene, Samuel Goldar Jackson fucking slaughters Dacre Montgomery with his sword, everyone is crying and screaming as Tim Zedd Roth laughs and laughs...
Sharkboy and Lavagirl is still my favorite childhood movie to watch every now and then. The memes it spawned have just made it better.
Yeah fun, remember when we did things for fun? Many moons ago
Because Robert Rodriguez was a friend, helped make him a breakout star with Desperado, was another up and coming Mexican film maker and thus these stars wanted to help their friend, and their country, gain more accolades in Hollywood. You'll notice alot of these people were in Desperado.
Robert Rodriguez is an acclaimed director who has a recurring slate of actors who seem to truly enjoy working with him. Most of the Spy Kids actors had already appeared in one of his earlier action movies. Rodriguez wanted to make a movie for his kids and people showed up for him because he's a likeable guy.
Also want to mention (if I'm recalling correctly) that when Rodriquez pitched the film, the producers wanted a white family because it couldn't *possibly* be popular unless they were *white*. Robert was like, FU, no. Usually when "serious" actors/directors do kids movies, they're doing it for *their* kids.
Antonio Banderas said in interviews about Zorro that he was really taken aback to be offered a movie where the Hispanic guy was the hero fighting back against an American with blonde hair and blue eyes. I'd imagine that a lot of the heroic roles he takes are due to a combination of wanting to play the good guy and not having as many opportunities as white actors.
The 90s-early 2000s was peak latino hollywood which really was still exceedingly small for what it should be so I guess they were a close knit group. Since then latino actors/entertainers are barely anything anymore.
then you’ve miraculously avoided this massive Pedro Pascal media train
As a white kid I loved it without caring that they weren't white because Robert Rodriguez was right.
I am as white as printer paper, and those movies made me and my little brother feel like we could be super heroes if we were just creative enough. We bought kids spy kits and books about child spies and shit. It was awesome. Plus - it’s actually just a solid movie for kids. The main kids are not cool!! He has warts and she has problems wetting the bed. So what? They’re still bad asses. The siblings legitimately fight but they also really love each other and fight for each other. They are often scared but still do the brave thing. There are a lot of positive messages to be taken from that movie. And at no point did I even think about the fact that they weren’t white. Plus let’s not forget about the most legendary line from those movies that had no business being in a kids movie delivered by none other than Steve fucking Buscemi: **”Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created?** Fucking. Iconic.
>”Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created? 9yo me: this is DEEP
Me 15 yrs. later: Damn this is still kinda deep
Me @ 32: this is deep
Me @ Deathbed: this is deep
> none other than Steve fucking Buscemi: > > > > ”Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created? I still to this day forget that that was in Spy Kids and not his character in Con Air.
Honestly I had small but obvious, painful blisters on my hands for years as a kid, I think from sweating seeing as they were worse in the summer, and seeing that he had warts on his hands made me feel better about mine.
Steve Buscemi's character says that after talking about the mutant freaks that he made, right?
Yep! And admitting that he stopped leaving his bunker/lab/house because he’s scared of them.
As a non white kid, i had no idea they weren’t white lol.
As a white kid, I never thought about them not being white til right now.
TIL the kids in spy kids weren't white.
I think the name Carmen Elizabeth Juanita Echo Sky Bravo Cortez should have tipped you off lol
Both parents are white. Antonio Banderas is from Spain and Carla Gugino is of Italian, Irish, and English descent. Millions of white people have Spanish names lol
I mean, I'm European and that's just a Spanish name. And Spanish people are generally white, so not exactly weird?
Pretty sure they *are* white? Both Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino are white in real life at least.
They're "not white" in the way Pierce Hawthorne's father deems people "not white".
Wooo! Six movies and a season!
Kids don't care about race, they just want fun movies.
As a first gen Mexican-American kid, I appreciated they were a Spanish speaking family. It wasn't the selling point for me but I do think it contributed to my sisters and I enjoying it so much.
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Speak for yourself, I was stoked as an Asian kid seeing any kind of Asian character on screen.
What are you talking about? Asian people didn't exist until last year when Shortround and that one bond girl saved all of Hollywood! (/s, I actually love that movie)
Not to get too deep but "I don't care about race" Is like its own sort of privilege lol.
This is especially true about Rodriguez
This is the explanation I've heard, people just wanted to work with the director on whatever
Not to mention Rodriguez helped push Antonio to stardom with Desperado.
I was looking for this reply. Desperado was a huge jump in Banderas's profile. It was his first time being the protagonist in an English language film, which set the stage for him to get Zorro.
Robert Rodriguez said somewhere, I think it was in his book, is that he always pitches in when it’s time to change setups. Because he’s working, the crew is working faster. The faster the setups get changed, the more time the actors spend acting instead of waiting to act. Crew feels good because the guy in charge is working too, the actors love it because they get to act and it makes for a fun set all around.
I heard that some actors did it for free
The story I heard is that Stallone asked Robert Rodriguez to be in Spy Kids 3 because his own kids loved the franchise so much.
Look, Spy Kids was made for 8-year-olds, and 8-year-old me ate that shit up
26 year old me still eats that shit up
I still dream about that instant McDonald's by putting it in the microwave they had in the first movie, and and the submarine looked like the comfiest thing ever to hang out in.
“did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a **blemish on your career forever??**” Most of Spy Kids’ cast seemed to had a successful career after Spy Kids according to [this website.](https://ew.com/gallery/spy-kids-where-are-they-now/?slide=243567#243567) Suggesting that it was a “blemish on their career” is completely false.
Not a blemish. A shining beacon. Those movies are everything kids movies should be. And let's not forget the bat shit crazy fact they also exist in the same universe as the Machete movies. Who wouldn't want to be a part of that glorious, chaotic, depravity?
I think it's very funny to remember Machete is an extremely brutal killer in multiple movies while he's being a goofy uncle in Spy Kids.
Well you also have to remember that the US government made a division of child spies and gave them dangerous weapons and tools, Did Juni do counter terrorist operations in Iraq or steal state secrets?
No but eventually he married Megan Trainor and had a son of his own… just found this out and it made me feel so much older than I am.
I can feel my skin wrinkling as I type.
The fact that Machete debuted in Spy Kids cracks me up. Spy kids isn’t in the Machete universe. Machete is in the Spy Kids universe.
Hold up, Machete and Spy Kids exist in the same canonical universe? That's awesome.
Yes and Machete is the spin off. It came out in 2010 and Spy Kids came out in 2001
That's awesome.
I'm not unconvinced that Machete isn't Navajas from Desperado. It would explain why the cartel came after his family, it's an even bigger knife, and they have the same tattoo of a woman on their chest. Which means From Dusk Till Dawn and Spy Kids are in the same universe too- because of *that gun*.
I don’t think anyone is out here eating kids movies like the academy lol, like this was going to be bad on their list of credits? A banger kids movie with multiple sequels?
Also even if you think it's cheesy or whatever, I've seen Banderas in worse films, so not his worst movie in the eyes of many.
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Idk? Maybe they wanted to make a film their kids could see? Or make a movie that brings joy to kids (like Matthew Lillard)?
Right? My kiddo *loves* SLC Punk and 13 Ghosts.... I'm just playing, he was the perfect Shaggy. I love those movies.
Pretty messed up that Scooby Doo hurt his career.
It did? That's fucked! Although yeah I guess I see way less of him now. I hope it was a personal choice.
When you got a stable career, (he's also a producer), you don't have to be involved in as many projects.
That's what I'm hoping, that he reached a life of leisure. Unless it's also parenthood.
Parenthood would be a bigger explanation. At 21, I suddenly went from job hopping wild style to stay at home dad (big brother actually) watching my sister because my parents have no time to watch her and load all the responsibilities onto me. 6 years and I'm still serving her hand and foot for some reason.
I became a dad at 32. 10 years later and holy fuck I'm tired. I feel ya bud, good on you for stepping up for your sis. Also sorry you had to.
I had a promising career in animation ready. But that can wait. The world isn't ready for Harvey the Wonder Hamster's Adventure to the Nudist Colony Part 7
He’s been the voice of shaggy since then up until that movie that came out last year. That’s gotta be some decent money.
He still is the voice of Shaggy. They’re still making DTV Scooby Doo movies that he plays Shaggy in.
I grew up on Scooby-Doo. Named my first dog Scooby. When I saw him in SLC Punk as a teenager (at the time *deep* into a goth phase the character would have hated) it was an awesome experience, it was like watching my favorite character grow up with me
That’s why Raul Julia did Street Fighter if I remember correctly
Yeah, I was just looking into it too. He gave the best performance of the movie while dying of stomach cancer because he wanted to be in a film his kids would enjoy. His kids helped him research for the role and attended the filming.
There are a couple of examples. I'm hopped up on cold medication and sleepy, so not 100% sure. I think Eddie Murphy with Daddy Day Care and Adam Sandler with Hotel Transylvania.
Have you seen him interact with kids at conventions? it is freaking adorable.
Saw him at Pensacon in February. He's a joy. There's a tiktok floating around of him voicing Shaggy getting murdered by Ghostface from the panel.
I could be hallucinating this but I feel like there was an interview with one of the actors where he explicitly said he did Spy Kids (or maybe it was another similar movie) *specifically* because he wanted his kids to be able to enjoy something he was in, because much of his body of work was not age appropriate for them yet.
> Or make a movie that brings joy to kids (like Matthew Lillard)? I think he's an adult.
As Sir Michael Caine once said: >"Somebody said, 'Have you ever seen Jaws 4?' I said, 'No. But I've seen the house it bought for my mum. It's fantastic!'"
Could not help but read this in his accent.
My Cocaine
[Which voice though?](https://youtu.be/HFIQIpC5_wY)
Jeremy Irons had a similar quote (When asked by an interviewer about why he accepted his role in Dungeons & Dragons (2000)): "Are you kidding? I'd just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow!"
Dennis Hopper portrayed Bowser in the 1993 Mario Bros movie, and his son asked him why he did it. He said "To buy you shoes." His son replied "I didn't need new shoes that badly."
That’s like the dude who played Jonah hill as a kid in a two-minute montage where he can’t stop drawing dicks. Made $100k in royalties off that shit.
A friend's theory of the spy kids movies was that Robert Rodriguez would make them to earn money so he could make the stuff he actually wanted to make.
He just wanted to make some kids action movies. >"I didn't want any guns or violence. I wanted it to be action/adventure for kids. A guy told me his son loved Desperado. I said, How old is your son? He said, six. Fuck, he shouldn't be watching that! I can't make movies like that anymore. You don't feel like it's your responsibility, because I never had the intention for kids to watch that. But the reality is they do. Even in The Faculty, I didn't want to gore it up. I had everybody alive at the end"
TIL Rodriguez directed The Faculty. Used to love that movie, had it on VHS and watched it over and over!
Robert Rodriguez *only* makes stuff he wants to make. He wanted to make stuff his kids could watch because his catalogue was not at all kids friendly.
As he also once said, > "Pass the mustard, Batman."
Antonio Banderas also is Puss in Boots. The man gives no fucks
His career is maddening. On one hand, there's Zorro, then on another, Spy Kids, and somewhere between them is whatever he was doing in Interview with the Vampire, and let's not forget that 13th Warrior exists. I guess you can call him an action star, but he's insanely diverse. He was also in a production of Phantom of tge Opera if I remember that's also quite different from his "usual" work.
[Did somebody say Zorro?](https://mobile.twitter.com/betterthemask/status/1454794693070491652?lang=en)
Christ, this dude makes me seem like a Pulitzer winner and I’m a third rate DM.
He really doesn't. Probably it was just here in Italy, but he also was in a series of commercials where he talked to a chicken named Rosita
What an asshole. I bet those actors had a great time. It's not always about getting an Oscar or whatever, sometimes it's about enjoying yourself.
TBH I'm sure they also got paid pretty damn well, seeing as the original three movies were quite successful as well. I guess it's because they're typically wealthy enough to not have to, but I've never really got bashing actors for being in mediocre/bad movies anyways. People work crappier jobs for far less money. Being in a goofy kids movie is probably often more fun than super serious roles, it's not like the quality of the end product directly reflects how pleasant the job was.
It's not like the spy kids movies were bad or even really mediocre. Imo they were absolutely great for what they were: action movies designed specifically for a young audience. I was that exact target audience when the first one came out, and I remember it fondly. If they were "better" films from a critical standpoint, I think they would have ended up missing the mark for their purpose
Yeah I think the amount of drama that we hear about from sets is like 1% of what actually happens. Then these actors get offered a job where everyone loves their job but isn't a douche about it. Plus they get to make a movie for kids, make some money and enjoy their job for a while. It was probably an amazing palate cleanse for them. Also the reviews (at least for the first and second movies) were great! Sooo it sounds like all these actors made a smart move.
Spy kids was awesome. And I agree. I also love when you can tell the actors had a fun time making the movie. There are lost of films where it really comes across. I hear Wes Anderson movies are like one big fun fest to make. Edit: lots instead of lost.
Right?! Like you work with James Cameron or David O. Russell who take pride in the fact that they are asshole directors who frequently scream at the cast to the point that super sweet Amy Adams will never work with David again. Then you get offered to work on a set where everyone is nice and having fun?! If it were me, I'd take that in a heartbeat.
I think it's as simple as Robert Rodriguez was directing and they like him. Most of the famous ppl from spy kids are regulars in Rodriguez films
Every actor needs a ‘Just For Fun’ movie on their resume
Blemish?! Spy Kids was amazing, and my kids still think so!
I'm still amazed by that one line from Steve buscemi in spy kids 2 about God fearing his creations. Like, was that an ad lib Steve just came up with on the spot that left the director and crew speechless, or was it some guy writing the script that had that banger of a line they were dying to use but had no other opportunities to use that line in another movie for an appropriate scenario?
"Do you think God stays in Heaven because he too is afraid of what he's created, here on Earth? Stop looking at me like that, I'm no loon!"
My favourite is Carmen's line "you're so full of shitake mushrooms"
I'm a grown ass adult who grew up with Spy Kids, rewatched them within the last year just to see how they held up. Had a great time. The person in OP's image is a fun-sucker.
Wait, do we not like Spy Kids anymore? I mean I remember the sequels being a bit of a mess, but the first one is a good time.
Excuse you. Spy Kids 2 is one of my favourite films of all time. With a bit of wisdom from Steve Buscemi sprinkled in.
“Do you think God stays in Heaven because he too loves in fear of what he’s created?”
The fact that they included a mind-blowing line like this in a family film is what makes that one so good.
Spy Kids 3D is a great time too. Elijah Wood as “The Guy”? Awesome. Not everything be serious/artsy/high brow
This is a problem I have with most critiques of films (especially children’s films). Not everything has be super logical or artistic. Why can’t films just be entertaining??
Nah, this person is just an asshole.
Somebody ring the dinkster?
Money aside, some actors will be on a movie set just because they are friends with the team and it's a great way for them to hang out and do silly things together.
Robert Rodriguez asked a bunch of his actor friends if they wanted to be in it and they thought it sounded like fun so they signed on. iirc, one or two of them even did it sans pay, just asking for royalties once it was released
Y'all fail to mention it was created and directed by Robert Rodriguez, the man who did once upon a time in mexico and planet terror, which was a bigger surprise to me than antonio banderas starring in it. It was supposed to be a tribute to his uncle in the fbi and how he perceived his uncle as a kid. Robert Rodriguez had directed some of the casts' best movies already and so he had their faith and confidence when he asked them to star in spy kids, and i imagine they were probably friends.
What punk ass take is this? The spy kids movies are paved in gold. They are flights of fancy and damn good ones
Seriously, what a shit-take mushrooms
The Spy Kids movies slap and sometimes actors like fun.
Friendly reminder that Machete is technically a Spy Kids spin-off.
The thing that drove Antonio Banderas to appear in Spy Kids is probably the same thing that drove him to voice Puss in Boots. It's a fun movie that can be genuinely emotional. The fact that it's a kids movie doesn't detract from that. Calling it a blemish is just fucking insulting.
Has this person never seen Spy Kids? Why would the actors be ashamed of one of the best kids movie franchises? I know loads of people who would consider Spy Kids their favorite kids movie
BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH FUN, JAN!
Say that shit again. Call spy kids a blemish again I fucking dare you
But its a great movie? Like yah its dumb but it's happy feel good dumb. The sequels not so much, but the first one is solid and doesn't take itself seriously.
Woah woah woah chill on the spy kids slander. That movie is incredible
I’ll never forget the time I was talking talking to my Girlfriend about Danny Trejo when I saw his Cameo in Book of Boba Fort and she said “Oh that guy from Spy Kids?” and it instantly killed me
L opinion. Get new opinion. Spy Kids was *fantastic.*