Such a bad movie, not worth watching

After an entire trilogy, was this sequel really necessary? Here are my thoughts:

http://rwlreviews.blogspot.com/2014/02/quickie-movie-review-spy-kids-all-time.html

I hope Jessica Alba and Artie from Entourage are ashamed of themselves for this mess. Only a 4 year old could enjoy this...

Eh, an unnecessary movie that is better forgotten in the grand scheme of the Spy Kids movies. It’s a whole bunch of cheesiness that I am sure kids will still decently appreciate, but it is nowhere near the entertainment of the original trilogy.

Rating: 1/5 - 5.5/10 - Would Not Recommend

Atrocious garbage, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D is a poorly made film that’s incredibly stupid. The story follows former spy Marissa Wilson, who comes out of retirement when an old nemesis breaks out of prison with designs on destroying the world, and along the way her step-kids join in the adventure and attempt to prove themselves worthy of being “spy kids.” With the introduction of “Spy Baby” the series goes way past jumping the shark. Jessica Alba and Ricky Gervais both give embarrassingly bad performances, and the new “spy kids” are remarkably bland. Additionally, the comedy is extremely lame, and the special effects are terrible. Borderline unwatchable, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D is the worst film of the series by far.

Spy Kids 4 feels like a movie out of time. There's fart jokes, a talking dog on the level of Cats and Dogs that never shuts up, the effects look virtually unchanged after 8 years. There is no place for this franchise in the 2010s. At least, not like this. Where Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino were happy to be here, Jessica Alba never buys in and Joel McHale is slumming it. The spark of creativity and passion is gone, replaced with contractual obligation. There are flickers of the Spy Kids of old, with Carmen and Junie's chemistry, the son being deaf, or the surprisingly tragic villain, but neither go far enough. The rest of the movie is so rote that they come off as aberrations. Father wants his son to respect him, just like the first movie. Daughter has trouble accepting her stepmom, like every family movie. There's nothing new here. The Spy Kids identity has been homogenized and whitewashed. The original trilogy had Danny Trejo, Antonio Banderas, Ricardo Montelban. It was unabashedly Hispanic. This movie has Ricky Gervais. If Ricky Gervais as a unceasingly talkative 'comic' dog doesn't scare you off this movie, nothing will.

A great recreation/jumpstart to an original kids action film but with a small connection to the originals as Spy Kids 4 is about 2 kids who discover that their stepmom is a spy after their house gets invaded, just like the original, and of course there is a good villain and storyline that keeps the viewer on their seat. A little twist is added as some of the original cast is brought back and ties to the original plot are made.

The only upside was **Ricky Gervais** as the dog. He was mostly saying what I was thinking. Rest was poor.