Spy Kids: All The Time In The World In 4D
Maybe I got a dud card, but I definitely got a dud movie to go with it. Nobody expected subtlety from a movie that comes with its own baby-fart smells, but Robert Rodriguez clobbers home his messages about family and quality time with such bludgeoning force that ushers should hand you a helmet to go with your 3-D glasses.
Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
Eight years after the third film, the OSS has become the world's top spy agency, while the Spy Kids department has since become defunct. A retired spy Marissa is thrown back into the action along with her stepchildren when a maniacal Timekeeper attempts to take over the world. In order to save the world, Rebecca and Cecil must team up with their hated stepmother. Carmen and Juni have since also grown up and will provide gadgets to them.
The two main themes in Rodriguez's film are "family is everything" and "everyone is family". For the first time ever it's not just a matter of reinforcing this, as the entire society around the family pulls them away from one another.
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I think kids are going to have a blast with Rodriguez's ridiculous gadgets, the kind that even Q from Bond movies would not want to come up with.But they all got contaminated by the barf and the fart jokes. It's one thing to make a movie that a child would enjoy and it's another to make a childish movie, this one is the latter.That said, I can imagine how exciting it must've been for the crew and the cast including the original stars Alexa Vega and Darryl Sabarra to come together again for this installment, it's clear to see from the featurette that they enjoyed each other's company and it's one big happy family reunion, too bad the script is a mess, the message encouraging parents to spend time with their kids get lost in the excruciatingly weak story, and even the beautiful Jessica Alba is not a good enough reason to watch this catastrophe.
Robert Rodriguez is back with the Spy Kids franchise, and this time with the 4D element: The Aroma-Scope card, in an attempt to change the way of seeing movies, giving you the sensation of smell the same as the actors.However this innovative tool fails to work most of the time.
Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara reprised their roles for the fourth installment the adventure film series, starring alongside Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven, Joel McHale, Ricky Gervais, and Rowan Blanchard. For the first time in the series, Carla Gugino and Antonio Banderas were not featured.
I was privileged to work with Robert Rodriguez (who happens to be one of my favorite directors), Danny Trejo and Al Dias. I was on set almost two weeks and you would be surprised how much an actor can learn from professionals of that caliber in that time frame.
I would want to sit down with Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr. and Denzel Washington. They are all an inspiration. With humility, these men selfishly gave themselves to the world through their actions, drive, words and character. I would certainly gain a great deal of knowledge if I ever had the opportunity. Those findings, would be a monumental benefit to those around me and myself.
"When I became a mother, I talked to him about getting back to work and how does he do it, how does he juggle spending time with his family [Rodriguez has five children] but also focus on his career because he's done it so well," Alba tells me.
In spite of the fact that she is entering labour, heavily pregnant super spy Marissa Wilson (Jessica Alba) manages to apprehend super terrorist Tick Tock (Jeremy Piven). Some time later, she has retired and settled down with her new family. Her husband Wilbur (Joel McHale) is struggling to launch a television career, and her two step-children Rebecca (Rowan Blanchard) and Cecil (Mason Cook) are struggling to get along with their new step-mother. Suddenly, an international crisis rears its ugly head when Tick Tock reappears under the leadership of the evil Timekeeper (Jeremy Piven). Called back into action by her former boss Danger D'Amo (Jeremy Piven), Marissa leaves the kids alone only to have them discover the truth of her profession and spring into action as a new generation of Spy Kids with their talking robot dog Argonaut (voiced by Ricky Gervais).
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's turn our focus to the even worse stuff: Everything else. Stuck for a place to start sifting through the shite, I thought maybe it would be a good idea if we began on the ground floor. So, how's the script? Well, I'm not entirely convinced there was one. In every scene, characters ramble endlessly about needing more time, taking the time to make the time for time when time is on time and out of time and gotta get back in time! The word "time" will lose almost as much meaning as the words "Jeremy Piven." In fact, just say "Jeremy Piven" a hundred times as fast as you can and you have some idea of how your brain will react to the third act of Spy Kids 4.
Jeremy Piven!!Even if there was a script, I'm pretty sure Ricky Gervais never received a copy. There are two kinds of talking animal in films: the kind that can talk directly to humans, and the kind that can only comment to the audience. Here, with Argonaut, it seems nobody could decide which one they were going for. The characters are aware that the dog can talk, and they do converse with it at times, but for the most part it simply comments endlessly on the events of the film and goes completely unnoticed by the rest of the cast. I imagine this happened because Gervais improvised a lot of his lines after the fact and nobody bothered to do anything to make it work.
Mind you, nothing else works here either. The visuals are so cheap and crappy that it makes you wonder why they bothered to set the action in such bizarre locations that can only be realised through green screen technology. Having said that, it's worth noting that the climactic set piece of the film takes place in the exact same location as a previous battle sequence. It seems a bit lazy on the part of the villains to just hang around in the same place after they already got blitzed there earlier. Maybe I'm overthinking it, as every set piece feels like a fight scene from the old 1960s Batman show, where the heroes approach the villain, a bunch of goons pop out, the heroes punch the goons and the villain makes comedic gestures and finally flees after all the goons are laid out. This happens about about as many times as there are Jeremy Pivens in this film.
4 times the gadgets, 4 times the adventure and 4 times the dimension. Audiences can get a whiff of the bigger, better experience on August 19th when SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D opens in theaters nationwide.
The Timekeeper is the central antagonist turned supporting character in the critically panned film, Spy Kids 4: All Time in the World. He was a villain who seeks to stop time in the world because people have been wasting time and vows to take away time from the world.
The Timekeeper traces his villainous origin back in the 1930s, where the Timekeeper's scientist father brought him to a laboratory where his father and his co-workers were conducting a experiment on time travel called The Wells Experiment, of which he was interested in. His father told him not to play and wander in the lab, but the will-be Timekeeper did not listen to his father's warnings and he was caught up in his father's experiment and frozen in time. His father had not yet found a way to unfreeze him in time until he died due to old age. One day, a group of scientists found a substance from a meteorite known as the Chrono Sapphire, which has special qualities, including the ability to unfreeze the Timekeeper in time. When the Timekeeper was unfrozen, he realized that all people he knew and loved already passed away. He decided to get back in time in order to be reunited with his father by using a weapon called Project Armageddon and under the name Danger D'amo (most probably not his real name), he became the head of the OSS, a spy organization.
When the Timekeeper first appeared to the media as a villain, he stated that his goal is cause Armageddon by stopping time. He believes that people does not value time, but waste it. In order to do this, he must activate the Armageddon device. He leads a bunch of masked minions under the command of his trusted henchman Tick Tock to achieve his goal.
However, the real purpose of the Armageddon device is not to stop time, but for him go back in time. The Timekeeper longs to reunite with his father and to prevent his death. He already went back in time more than once, but failed and created multiple versions of himself, which served as his minions (including Tick Tock). He finally succeeds, probably because the Chrono Sapphire went along with him through the time portal created by his Armageddon device. He reappeared immediately where the portal once were but reappeared as an age-readjusted version of himself, telling Cecil and Rebecca that they are right, that he can't change the past and that his father is still dead. He told them that people should not live in the past but live a life moving forwards to the future. It was presumed he was arrested for his actions. 041b061a72