This featured particularly unsightly 3-D effects at the multiplex, so it’s a minor mercy to catch it in 2-D at home.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 21, 2024

Strewn with adolescent puns and nerdish video-game humor, and the best 3D effects ever hurled at an audience (still fun even in tradition 2D), you hardly even notice that all pretense at story has been tossed off the screen with everything else.

| Aug 19, 2023

There's a lot of hand-to-hand action, just like a video game, that gets harder as you move up a level. Also, like a video game, there is no story. You have no idea who is fighting whom. Or why.

| Original Score: D+ | Jan 5, 2018

The 3D stuff works really well.

| Jul 29, 2015

Spy Kids 3 is much sharper and funnier than the second outing, but the missing pieces, namely the parents and sister, are sorely needed.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 29, 2012

Kids will love it, but adults may find it flat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Rodriguez knows how to evoke the imagination in children with such an enjoyable family yarn.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 16, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2005

Retains the homemade virtues that made the earlier installments such an un-selfconscious, pleasingly clunky delight.

| Jan 21, 2005

...watching in 3-D is annoying and watching in 2-D is pointless. Kind of a losing situation.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 19, 2004

A loser in any dimension....As if one Stallone wasn't bad enough, Rodriguez gives us three of them.

| Feb 9, 2004

Where Rodriguez falls short... is in relying on the computer generated special effects to make up for problems in the script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2004

That's just what it feels like -- a video game, not a movie, and a noisy, frenetic game at that.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2003

Robert Rodriguez continues to pillage from past adventure genres, but the experience is about the boundless creativity of kids' dreams, not retro nostalgia.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2003

While the film as a whole is still good fun, it lacks the freewheeling glee of the first two.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 12, 2003

If the old red and blue 3-D glasses make your eyes hurt, you may have to skip this one, but that's the only bad thing you can say about it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 8, 2003

A movie so awful that those headaches spurred by the film's shoddy optics effects seem minor by comparison.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Aug 28, 2003