Despite boasting the now depressingly ubiquitous Hollywood family comedy moral of "spend more time with your kids", Spy Kids 4 does present a reasonably entertaining way of at least achieving 90 minutes towards that goal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2021

The film looks like one of those kaleidoscopes where you twist and turn it and look at all the pretty images.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 24, 2020

With any luck, the pre-teen audience will have as big a lark as [Robert] Rodriguez but this fourth film does seem cruder and ruder than the first three in the series.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2017

comes with all the silliness and sugar-coated pop fanaticism that is found in Rodriguez's lesser kids films

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 24, 2013

No matter how many dimensions you slap on the poster, there's no accounting for lazy workmanship. Can Robert Rodriguez please make Sin City 2 now?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 31, 2011

Clever and strange, 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D' is a psychedelic action movie that will boggle and entertain the minds of adults and kids alike. If you like wordplay, you will like it all the more for the witty dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 22, 2011

Rodriguez reboots his eight-years-dormant franchise, with surprisingly entertaining and loosey-goosey results

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 28, 2011

A concatenation of scatological humor likely to keep only tiny tykes in stitches and howling away at a poop and fart jokes.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 21, 2011

...fairly routine fare, even for kids, and aside from cool gadgets it's just a bit dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 6, 2011

Don't take your kids to see this. I never thought I would say this, but take them to see The Smurfs instead. It's a smurfload better than this pile of smurf.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Now then, what of the movie? Well, it stands a better chance of getting up your nose than crummy old AromaScope, that's for sure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 22, 2011

Displaying a visual flair rare for a family film, this is entertaining, escapist fun.

| Sep 21, 2011

The stars of the old Spy Kids movies are no longer kids, of course. Spy Kids 3D: Game Over was released way back in 2003.

| Sep 8, 2011

A nice mix of old-fashioned imagination (anagrams, pranks, secret spaces) and newfangled effects (gizmos, gadgets, graphics), it's a rollicking, never obnoxious family flick.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2011

... a shiny, complicated toy that's silly and doesn't really do anything, but is fun to play with.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 31, 2011

[UPDATED 2024 REVIEW] A desperate attempt by Robert Rodriguez to resuscitate a dead franchise.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 26, 2011

In Spy Kids 4, women are warriors and men freely cry about their fathers, and it's this inversion that made me love the movie a little bit extra.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2011

A 3D film aimed mostly at children.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 26, 2011

Kids will be mildly amused by it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2011

The mind boggles before being lulled into a stupor of inanition by this latest instalment of Robert Rodriguez's increasingly cheap-looking franchise.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 24, 2011