Gregorio Cortez: Antonio Banderas	Ingrid Cortez: Carla Gugino
Juni Cortez: Daryl Sabara	Carmen Cortez: Alexa Vega
Uncle Machete: Danny Trejo	Minion: Tony Shalhoub
Floop: Alan Cumming	Ms. Gradenko: Teri Hatcher
Evil Rich Man: Robert Patrick	Uncle Felix: Cheech Marin
Writer/Director: Robert Rodriguez

30 Second Bottom Line: Parents, who come out of retirement to be spies again and save the world from an evil scheme, are rescued by their two young children after they are captured.

Story Line: Think of a spy movie where James Bond is a kid, and there is no sex or cursing, and you have arrived at Spy Kids. Now that you know where you are, let's have fun following the kids who become heroes.

Gregorio (Antonio Banderas) is a spy out to eliminate Ingrid (Carla Gugino), who is also a spy out to eliminate Gregorio. They decide that enough is enough and after becoming friends, eventually they get married. They leave the spy business and have two children, Juni (Daryl Sabara) and his older sister Carmen (Alexa Vega). Gregorio is called out of retirement to fight those who would ruin the world. Ingrid will not let him go alone; they call in Uncle Felix (Cheech Marin) to watch the kids and off they go. While en route to their mission they are captured.

Uncle Felix is a spy also, sent to protect the kids and get them to a safe house while the parents are away. With the get away precision and excitement of a space ship leaving a distant planet, just before they run out of enough fuel to get into orbit, Carmen and Juni manage to escape as Uncle Felix holds off the bad guys.

Floop(Alan Cumming) hosts a children's TV show that Juni loves to watch, and he collects all the action figure characters. The show is rated # 2, and Floop is conflicted between getting to # 1 or helping Minion (Tony Shalhoub) and an evil rich man (Robert Patrick) clone the young children of various world leaders, into an army of evil. This would allow Minion's minions to infiltrate every country in the world to advance their evil goals.

The cloned kids are perfect, except they don't have a brain with a double digit IQ. Before his retirement, Gregorio was part of a group developing a brain; like cloning, it was controversial and potentially dangerous. For that reason the project was disbanded and all the "brains" destroyed. It's suspected that Gregorio has kept a secret working brain, so as not to waste all the research.

Juni and Carmen must find and rescue their parents before Floop and Minion are able to retrieve the brain modules for the clone kids.

Tell Me More About It: This fast paced movie is like many other films about evil-doers who want to take over the world; you understand the general plot but know better than to get too hung up on the details. Mission Impossible:2 and Charlie's Angels are relevant examples.

The violence in the film is more on the aggressive side of playground roughhousing, and fun matrix type maneuvers, as compared to the darker images in other children's films such as Dinosaur and Chicken Run. The closest thing they get to a swear word is a situation when Carmen is thinking of a four letter word when she's in a big jam and instead says, "shiiiiiiii….take mushrooms." That, by itself is funnier and more creative than so much of the crude humor, which is standard fare in many of today's comedies.

There is plenty of drama, laughs and suspense to support the considerable action of the film. Parents, nor children, need to leave their brains in the lobby. Everyone can hang on and enjoy the ride. The best part is that from the beginning to the end, there is a focus on the family. Even the final scene in the picture focuses on the importance of siblings, parents, wife and husband to each other. It is family values as it's meant to be.

Antonio Banderas: Original Sin	Carla Gugino: Center of the World
Daryl Sabara: Roswell-TV	Alexa Vega: Deep End of the Ocean, The
Danny Trejo: Reindeer Games	Tony Shalhoub: Tic Code
Alan Cumming: Get Carter	Teri Hatcher: Fever
Robert Patrick: All the Pretty Horses	Cheech Marin: Tin Cup
Robert Rodriguez: The Faculty