The film’s naïve charm, filtered through Rodriguez’s big kid-in-a-candy-store filmmaking sensibility, engages on the level of childlike—and at times defiantly, delightfully childish—imagination.

| Apr 14, 2023

Kids will love the 3-D aspect of this movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2011

Robert Rodriquez continues in the vein of his "Spy Kids" films with another visually frenetic kiddie crowd-pleaser that will leave adult chaperons exiting the cinema nursing headaches.

| Original Score: C | Jul 2, 2009

The words Robert Rodriguez would come to regret saying for years to his son: "This would make a cool movie".

| Apr 29, 2009

A fun summer film for grade school kids, it avoids the subtle meanness and double entendres that filmmakers sometimes insert into films geared to children.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Rodriguez es un nio grande que trabaja como cineasta, pero nio al fin y al cabo. Esa es la verdadera tercera dimensin del filme, la de su corazn infantil

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2005

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 30, 2005

No amount of bells & whistles can salvage a screenplay this half-baked.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 25, 2005

A movie for kids, by kids, even if Rodriguez was there for a little bit of technical supervision.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 23, 2005

We find only disjointed clamor and confusion amid a babble of noise and flashing lights. The movie seemed to me little more than a clever afternoon special.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Sep 20, 2005

Avoid like Sharkboy-infested waters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 27, 2005

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 26, 2005

Reminds us, unequivocally, why 3-D has yet to catch on. "Special" effects notwithstanding, this Robert Rodriguez quickie is strictly for the younger set.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 21, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 5, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Jul 5, 2005

Robert Rodriguez' paternal love for his son is admirable - but not if you have to pay the price of admission to this fumbling fiasco.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jun 28, 2005

What a strange, disappointing, technically disastrous movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 27, 2005

As Sharkboy, a young oceanographer raised by talking sharks, Lautner is a rare standout -- a child actor with a dark side.

Full Review | Jun 27, 2005