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Spy Kids (2001)
Summary
Two kids discover their parents are retired spies and must step into action themselves to rescue them from a dangerous enemy threatening the world.
Director
Robert Rodriguez
Writer
Robert Rodriguez
Cast
- Alexa Vega as Carmen Cortez
- Daryl Sabara as Juni Cortez
- Antonio Banderas as Gregorio Cortez
- Carla Gugino as Ingrid Cortez
- Alan Cumming as Fegan Floop
- Tony Shalhoub as Alexander Minion
Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
Metacritic: 71
VOD / Release
Theatrical release
Trailer
Official Trailer
by LiteraryBoner
15 Comments
Just want to say I still, to this day, dream of a microwave that can synthesize McDonalds.
Now flushing your poop.
Diaper lady.
Alan Cumming has yet to top his performance in this film. You can tell he had a lot of fun making this.
YOU CAN DREAM MY DREAM, YOU CAN DREAM MY DREAM…
Two childhood crushes right there, this movie was some core memory stuff.
Floop and the Thumb Thumbs were just the right amount of weird fever-dream vibes that made it memorable
Core childhood memory. Had a massive crush on Alexa Vega and Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino in this movie was my first ever crush. Good. friggin. lord.
FLOOP IS A MAD MAN! HELP US! SAVE US!
I still maintain 3 was the best in the series. It had everything a gamer dreamed of.
Reminder that this movie has been preserved by the National Film Registry for its cultural, aesthetic, and/or historic relevance.
The end credit scene still confuses me to this day.
my parents took me to see this and I was obsessed with it for a hot minute. It’s been over 20 years since I last watched it but my dad taught my niece and nephew the “holy shiitake mushrooms” quote not too long ago
Did anyone else remember these films basically being annual releases?
I think younger me was very off put by some of the stuff floop made.
Still absolutely loved the movie. It was so cool. It was around the time I started remembering actors’ names across different stuff. So I noticed banderas was the dad and new (at the time) zorro, shalhoub was minion and monk. Or something like that. Very specifically this two. Later, Danny Trejo.
Holy shiitake mushrooms
Holy shi….taki mushrooms.