Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

Best movie of this year hands down!

A Masterpiece!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I gave this movie a 9/10 because not all movies are meant to be top quality in everything. This movie was made to be a sequel to a cheesy family friendly movie and it did not disappoint. If you saw the original and liked it at all, this movie followed up tremendously in a very short amount of time. It was funnier, cheesier, and had a surprisingly good actors/actresses. Sure there were plenty of things that didn't make sense (cinemasins would have a field day with this), but to me that's just part of what makes it so fun to watch.I've recently gone back to watch old movies I watched as a kid, and this is one of the ones I think held up the most.

the effects are cheap and unrealistic,the acting is so over the top i wanted to stop watching but i had to write a review on something so this movie is what i picked and its a massive stinker. the kids pulled in okay performance apart from the little girl Gerti Giggles ( Emily Osment) who won best young performer but i thought OVERRATED MOVIE AND ACTORS. this movie made more money then they had.the movie was awful the editor had to take bad acting like that and try to fix it.yet it did not work. this movie looks cheap, poorly made and i do not know how it got positive reviews this movie was worst then the cat in the hat. Why were the critics so dumb that they like this movie.this truly is the Worst Kids movie of the decade. This is the most awful kids movie ever 2/10

The second adventure for mini-spies Carmen and Juni Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara), Island of Lost Dreams displays plenty of energy and creativity, plus a few nods towards classic fantasy films of yesteryear, and yet it doesn't work quite as well as its predecessor by attempting to cram far too much into proceedings.In addition to the characters returning from the original film (the Cortez kids, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez, Uncle Machete, Felix, Fegan Floop and Alexander Minion), we also get a pair of rival spy kids, Gary and Gertie Giggles (Matt O'Leary and Emily Osment), a crazy scientist, Romero (Steve Buscemi), who creates bizarre freaks of nature by splicing together different animal genes, Gregorio Cortez's disapproving in-laws (played by Holland Taylor and Ricardo Montalban), Gary and Gertie's evil father Donnagan (Mike Judge), the President of the USA (Christopher McDonald) and his neglected (Taylor Momsen) daughter (Taylor Momsen), and theme park owner, Dinky Winks (Bill Paxton). With so many characters fighting for valuable screen time, there's scant time dedicated to telling a decent story, particularly with director Robert Rodriguez also keen to stuff in as many poorly rendered CGI set-pieces as humanly possible. In fact, there's so much going on, that poor old Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, back again as Carmen and Juni's parents, are relegated to an unnecessary subplot about Gregorio failing to live up to the in-laws expectations.Still, if you're a fan of old-style monster movies, then the Harryhausen-inspired creatures that inhabit the titular island might go some way to make up for the incoherent plot, and some of the film's wackier visual moments (the crazy theme park; Carmen and Juni's endless drop down a volcano shaft) are inventive enough to be entertaining despite their inherent silliness.If you're a fan of the first film, there's probably enough good stuff to warrant a watch; just don't expect this sequel to be as consistently amusing as the first film.

the film was okay it was fun to watch but again it is stupid. in this they have to save there mom and dad who have been kidnapped and taken to the island of lost dreams but when Carmon and juny visit the fall in to a lab were they discover dinosuars, creatures and skeletons that want to kill them.they run away from the creatures as they go to rescue there mom and dad. this one didn't focus on the unrealisticness but on being fun to watch. thank goodness it wasn't 3-d it wood have had no plot. Troublemakers studio finally made a good movie. it was fun to watch. i also was glad it wasn't boring because when i get bored during a movie i pick out actors. there isn't a lot of actors in the movie. i liked this one. i gave it 4 out of 10 stars.