The Movie: Spy Kids 3D: Game Over 2003. Written and Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Staring: Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalbán, Holland Taylor, Mike Judge, Cheech Marin, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, and Sylvester Stallone as The Toymaker
We live in a world when the visual effects of a film are almost always of a high caliber, even in a bad movie. If you went back and showed Battleship to someone from 1995 they'd probably be blown away. So the baromitor of a movie is no longer how it looks (though that certainly matters) Because of that, it's refreshing to look back at a movie series like the Spy Kids series, a set of films unafraid to look very bad.
The visual effects have not aged well, but honestly that gives these movies flavor. It makes the cartoonish things look cartoonish, and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. The entire film takes place inside a video game (though I'm not sure Rodriguez knows how those work-more on that in a moment) so the effects being kinda hokey fits the time period and the world established by the script.
