Spy Kids 2001

Critics score:
93 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

John Zebrowski, Seattle Times: One of the best kids movies in years. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: A winner. Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Enjoyable and charming if overactive. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Hits the screen running and never lets up. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Winning family film that's clever in the best kind of offhanded way. Read more

Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The adventures of the Cortez family have a casual multicultural feel that is welcome. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The children's thriller Spy Kids is just a glorified gizmo movie, but, as directed by the semigrown up Robert Rodriguez, the gizmos have a loopy, babes in toyland vivacity. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Read more

Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: Wildly imaginative and funny. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: A virtual eruption of special effects and sorcery, borrows a little here and a little there from a lot of espionage thrillers, which may amuse parents. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A fine, relatively non-violent example of pure family entertainment. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A treasure. Read more

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This surprisingly entertaining movie turns the adults into kids and the kids into adults -- and everyone laughs at the talking toilet. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's entertaining and inoffensive, a rare combination in kids' films, which are usually neither. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: In terms of its family ethos, this makes an interesting comparison with the Addams Family films. Read more

Andy Seiler, USA Today: A good live-action children's movie -- a species so rare that many presumed it extinct. Read more

Lael Loewenstein, Variety: Fulfills kids' empowerment fantasies and features enough techno-wizardry and cool f/x to satisfy those weaned on videogames. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Energetic and slickly done, but also somewhat soulless. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention. Read more