The latest Spy Kids is about a villain who tries to take over the world by injecting evil code into all of our technology. You can only use your gizmos and gadgets if you can beat a video game… so enter the only demo with the necessary skills: Kids. Apparently this movie exists in a world where adults haven’t been playing video games their whole lives… but there I go thinking like an adult again.

I guess, charitably, “Rodriguez doing everything in a computer again” is getting better. Still not convincing but at least not an eye-bleeding CGI nightmare. And maybe that’s ok for this franchise. I dunno. The target demo won’t care.

The new kids are ok. Sometimes a little hammy and clearly not as cool as previous spy kids (<eyes roll>. I’m not gonna spend more time bagging on a couple of tweens. The target demo won’t care.

Zachary Levi and Gina Rodriguez play the Spy Adults… and they do their jobs, get their movie checks, and go home. The target demo won’t care.

The action sequences are pretty average and nothing new or interesting. It’s all very silly and loud and bright and shiny and noisy. It SHOULD be fun and silly… and sometimes it works… more often it’s just visual noise. The target demo won’t care.

But grumbling about this film is missing the point. There’s a whole army of kids for whom this will be the first Spy Kids they’ve seen… or they are so hopped up on pixie stix they’ll have forgotten the last one. If a crusty old adult thinks its all the same thing… we’re probably right. The target demo won’t care.

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Beep Boop.

Score: 64