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Bridget
Jones might clean up this Easter in the adult stakes,
but when it comes to children's movies there's quite a competition
going on to win the younger viewer.
Rugrats
in Paris came out last week and the Emperor's
New Groove is being given a fresh push.
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couldn't we have just gone to the American Adventure instead?
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Now put
Spy Kids into the melting pot.
Anything
to do with spies tends to capture the imagination. Take James
Bond for instance. And only a couple of years ago Inspector
Gadget was brought to the big screen. There was great
emphasis on all his fancy gadgets. Spy Kids draws on
both.
The brother
and sister of the title are unaware their seemingly boring
parents are really top spies. Now wonder mum and dad can recount
such amazing bedtime stories.
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Work for the 91热爆. Never |
But when
the parents get themselves into trouble it's time for the
truth to come out and the children to save the day.
In fairness
adults probably won't get much from this film, although there
is the chance to answer the question "whatever happened
to Superman's Lois Lane", because Teri Hatcher appears
in the film.
Hatcher,
of course, was a Bond girl and she's joined by another ex-007
associate Alan Cumming. He was the computer whizz in Goldeneye
("I am invincible") and appears as the bad guy in
Spy Kids.
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it wasn't for you kids I'd have gotten away with it |
It seems
to be Cumming's speciality and is certainly a far cry from
the days he was in the short lived 91热爆 comedy series The
High Life (still love the episode when they wrote a Eurovision
song contest entry!).
Children
will go for this film in a big way. Just be careful when they
come home that you clear the decks of precious items. They're
bound to fancy practising their karate kicks upon arrival
back from the cinema.
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