![]() I haven’t seen this in about ten years, but it’s a film I grew up with. “This is almost an impossible movie to rate but I feel like I have to give it something. There are many bad reviews that just outright say “it fucking sucks,” but plenty of users take a restrained sort of criticism, saying, yeah, it’s a bad movie, but wasn’t it a delight? ![]() The movie’s Letterboxd reviews are perhaps the greatest testament to it’s strange, divided legacy. Nowadays, he harbors warmer feelings towards Sharkboy and Lavagirl - it’s no Spy Kids 3: Game Over, but it went big with its imagination. At the time, when compared to the more polished Spy Kids trilogy, he found Rodriguez’s bubbly follow up slightly lacking, citing a moment where Max has to go to sleep in order to advance the plot as an example of its weird pacing. “I thought there was a lot of wasted potential,” TechRadar editor Henry St Leger, 26, recalls of his initial reaction. What makes Sharkboy and Lavagirl so iconic to a certain sect of late-teens and twenty-somethings? Here’s what they told me. Struck with doubt for a moment, I wondered if anyone would even weigh in but within an hour of searching, I got so many DMs I had to close my inbox, lest I be crushed by the weight of Sharkboy and Lavagirl fervor. What was it about Sharkboy and Lavagirl that makes so many remember it years later? I turned to the internet in hopes of finding late-millennials/early-Gen-Z cuspers of the internet who might have the answers. There are surely dozens, if not hundreds, of kids movies that hit theaters then immediately settled into a life on a dusty shelf of VHS tapes (or perhaps more accurately in this day and age, the corner of some obscure streaming service). Rodriguez said neither he nor Netflix realized just how big the fanbase for the movie was until the first images and trailers came out and people cheered in absolute delight on social media. The result was We Can Be Heroes, due out on Dec. “We cracked the code 15 years ago,” Rodriguez joked in an interview with Polygon.Īt that point, he figured why not?, and integrated a grown-up Sharkboy and Lavagirl, along with their superpowered kid, into his plans. But while designing the heroes for a new adventure movie, he kept coming back to the idea of shark powers. When Netflix asked Rodriguez to make a new movie for the streaming service - after seeing the success of not just Sharkboy and Lavagirl on the platform, but Rodriguez’s other kid-tailored movies, the Spy Kids trilogy - he didn’t intend to make it a sequel. With its bright, over-the-top visuals and shamelessly indulgent fantasy story, Sharkboy and Lavagirl is a movie many have seen and still don’t believe. Inspired by a story written by Rodriguez’s son, the film follows a boy named Max whose fantastic creations written in his dream journal come to life. This was the magic of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, a kids movie on which filmmaker Robert Rodriguez served not just as director, but producer, co-screenwriter, visual effects supervisor, director of photography, editor, camera operator, composer, and musical performer. ![]() Five years before Taylor Lautner ranked second on Glamour’s “The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010,” he donned a shark suit with molded abs to belt out a song about dreams. ![]()
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