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...Kids, then, was not so much a departure from violence as a return to his pet subject. Rodriguez had always idolized his uncle Gregorio, a special agent for the FBI. But it wasn't until he was shooting Four Rooms with Banderas in 1995 and a group of pint-sized actors, all dressed in tuxedos, that the penny dropped. "They looked like little James Bonds, and I thought, Wow, that's the angle. A spy family," he says. "I can use my family's dynamics and values, with the spy twist to give it some action...
Still, it's a risky move, as 3-D movies have not had a happy history--and neither have sequels. Rodriguez is unperturbed. "I like the fact that I don't really know what I'm doing," he says, sliding over to the music console (he has composed music for this and his next movie as well) to play something off key. "That's terrible," he says cheerfully. It may be his refreshingly low estimation of the seriousness of his work that makes his movies so appealing; he calls Spy Kids 3-D "the only home movie in theaters this...
...Toymaker, the brainy bad guy bent on ruling the cyberworld. He holds conferences with three advisers--a steely general, a bald scientist and a blissed-out hippie--all played by the one actor. Sylvester Stallone is simply the guest villain of Robert Rodriguez's 3-D video game, but when the veteran star is onscreen, this Spy Kids plays like Sly Kids...
Stallone had mentioned to Rodriguez that he had no movies in which he appears to show his older daughters, Sophia Rose, 6, and Sistine Rose, 5. As the director recalls, "I told him he'd get to be a hissable but redeemable bad guy and to play opposite one of the greatest actors: himself. We sent the kids an early videotape so they could see how cool their...
...come to praise Spy Kids and to bury it. Robert Rodriguez says his third installment is the final one. That's a shame, because the first two were smart, genial family outings, and because the finale is a bit off--less a detour than a pothole...