Spy Kids (Dimension) : What Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Junie (Daryl Sabara) Cortez think is just a bedtime story about a husband and wife spy team, told to them by their mother Ingrid (Carla Gugino), is really about their parents. Ingrid and Gregorio (Antonio Banderas) are called out of an almost decade-long retirement, spent raising Carmen and Junie, to battle Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), a misguided children’s television show host, and his evil partner Alexander Minion (Tony Shaloub). Floop and Minion have been abducting spies and turning them into Flooglies (characters on Floop’s show), and also creating an army of robotic spy kids who require the “third brain” that Gregorio helped to create. Writer/director Robert Rodriguez, who appeared to have a special effects field day with the horror flick The Faculty, ups the ante by creating a brightly-colored, fast-paced and funny children’s movie that parents (or any adult) probably won’t mind sitting through. Banderas, who has played gay a handful of times, takes to playing a daddy like a natural. Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick, and even George Clooney join in the flashy fun. On a scale of 1 to 10: 6.5

