Somebody ring the Dinkster?
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn't exist.Over two decades ago, Robert Rodriguez introduced millennials to spycraft and Thumb Thumbs with his upbeat quartet of Spy Kids films, which embraced familial bonds and the potential children have to save the day through the optimism that only they possess.
Armageddon’s parental units lack the scorching-hot chemistry that Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino brought to the original trilogy, but Zachary Levi and Gina Rodriguez do make a very sweet couple as Terrence and Nora Tango-Torrez. They smooch and swoon and operate as a rock-solid spy couple made even better by their precocious children Patty and Tony who are the very best of them. Levi and Rodriguez are quite charming, though they are merely secondary characters to the young leads.
The cast of good guys is rounded out by D.J. Cotrona, who previously starred in Rodriguez’s short-lived From Dusk Till Dawn reboot series and opposite Levi in the Shazam! films, who appears as OSS leader Devlin. There isn’t much to his character, by design, but Cotrona has fantastic comedic timing, especially when he’s being one-upped by Patty and Tony.
Spy Kids: Armageddon might be action-packed, but there’s nothing inherently violent about the battles that Patty and Tony get involved with. Sure, there are swords, shields, and axe-wielding skeletons, but they’re hardly real threats to the children, and those lowered stakes won’t detract from the thrills aimed at the younger demographic watching.
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