5 Comments on Spy Kids 2 – The Island of Lost Dreams

Rudy Palma on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 3:27 pm


This was the worst movie I saw during the Summer of 2002, and it had to be at a drive-in movie! This movie actually started out fine, and the plot was okay, but nothing can make up for the awful acting in this film. The kids were as good as they could have been with the script-at-hand, and the adults were much worse, especially their parents played concoctedly and horribly by Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino. Some little kids may like this movie, and maybe even some adults. Oh well, I can’t explain why, but people do seem to. All in all, this movie simply was a bad movie overflowing with bad acting and an okay plot that doesn’t make up for any flaws in the end. One good thing-the film isn’t long at all, it’s quite short. One final bad thing too, however-Alexa Vega finishes up the film with a horrible little song about the movie. You will definitely want to skip past this, whether you liked the film or not.
Rating: 1 / 5

Anonymous on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 4:18 pm


How can anyone like movies such as this one unless you are 10 years old. It is full of cheasy lines, the actors are terrible and the plot is just plain stupid. There are many “cringeworthy” moments during the movie, and i just found myself hitting my head against the wall because the characters were so very stupid and “ditsy”. Please spare your mind, and don’t see this movie, unless you are retarded or under 11 years old.
Rating: 5 / 5

tvtv3 on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 5:25 pm


Beginning a couple years after SPY KIDS left off, SPY KIDS 2: THE ISLAND OF LOST DREAMS finds Juni and Carmen as two of the top-notch kid spies in the international spy Agency that their family is all involved with. When a top secret gadget, called the Transmooger, that can shut down any defense system in the world is stolen, Juni is blamed and the sibling duo is pulled out of running from top-ranking status. However, Carmen uses her killer hacking skills to arrange it so the her and Juni are sent after the crooks who stole the Transmooger. Their search leads them to an invisible island that is home to a menagerie of genetically created monsters. The Cortez siblings soon find themselves fending off giant reptiles and skelton armies as they attempt to get the Transmooger back from a man bent on taking over the world.

SPY KIDS 2 is made in the same spirit as the original movie, but it’s a bit too much over-the-top. SPY KIDS was a movie taken straight from the mind of a man-child suffering from Peter Pan syndrome. In SPY KIDS 2, the child-like mind is still there, but it’s haunted by the upcoming onset of puberty. This could have made for an interesting struggle in the film, but the tension was a nuissance that was covered by overcompensating in other areas.

As a side note, SPY KIDS 2 is a homage to the creature creations of famed special effects/monster wizard Ray Harryhausen. His influence is felt all over the picture and it was kind of nice to sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie that felt like an old SINBAD picture. Kids will love this movie, teens will find it boring, and adults will have a mixed response. I enjoyed SPY KIDS better, but overall found SPY KIDS 2 to be almost as entertaining and fun as the original.
Rating: 4 / 5

Anonymous on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 7:37 pm


This movie was pretty much horrible. The plot was weird and dumb and the kid actors were pretty annoying. Then again kids with a short attention span should be into this.
Rating: 1 / 5

jd on Sun, 18th Jul 2010 10:16 pm


I LOVED the first movie, but this was a giant monster of a disappontment! It was silly, contrived, and cartoonish. No plot. Just special effects that were wasted on a movie lacking any substance.
Rating: 1 / 5

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