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John Zebrowski, Seattle Times: One of the best kids movies in years. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: A winner. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Enjoyable and charming if overactive. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Hits the screen running and never lets up. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Winning family film that's clever in the best kind of offhanded way. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The adventures of the Cortez family have a casual multicultural feel that is welcome. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The children's thriller Spy Kids is just a glorified gizmo movie, but, as directed by the semigrown up Robert Rodriguez, the gizmos have a loopy, babes in toyland vivacity. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Read more
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: Wildly imaginative and funny. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: A virtual eruption of special effects and sorcery, borrows a little here and a little there from a lot of espionage thrillers, which may amuse parents. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A fine, relatively non-violent example of pure family entertainment. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A treasure. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This surprisingly entertaining movie turns the adults into kids and the kids into adults -- and everyone laughs at the talking toilet. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's entertaining and inoffensive, a rare combination in kids' films, which are usually neither. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: In terms of its family ethos, this makes an interesting comparison with the Addams Family films. Read more
Andy Seiler, USA Today: A good live-action children's movie -- a species so rare that many presumed it extinct. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: Fulfills kids' empowerment fantasies and features enough techno-wizardry and cool f/x to satisfy those weaned on videogames. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Energetic and slickly done, but also somewhat soulless. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As a piece of almost dadaist filmmaking, Spy Kids is great fun with its continual spirit of invention. Read more