Movie Guide: Spy Kids

Spy Kids is a family movie that parents, as well as the kids, can enjoy. The story follows two children, Carmen (Alex Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara), as they take on a spy mission that parallels their parents' former lives as secret agents. The kids are attempting to foil a plot by an evil TV show host, with the ridiculous name of Fegan Floop, who has kidnapped their parents and wants to overrun the world with a master race of robot children. Much of the film's humor is based on the children's incredulity that their supposedly lame parents, played by Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, led secret lives of mystery and derring-do. The rest of the jokes are relentless spoofs of James Bond and Banderas' silly jabs at his Iberian swagger.