The Disastrous Decline of the Spy Kids Franchise

0:00 - Intro

PART 1: ROBOT CHILDREN
3:19 - 2001: A Spy Odyssey
5:16 - Spy Kids 1 (2001)
21:03 - Mission Accomplished
25:13 - Reading Is Fundamental

PART 2: LOST DREAMS
30:08 - Robert Rodriguez Rising
33:33 - Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
49:50 - It's Good, Bad, and Ugly
54:09 - MCU (Machete Cinematic Universe)

PART 3: GAME OVER
59:10 - 2003-D
1:02:22 - Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
1:15:11 - Task Failed Successfully
1:21:12 - Spy Art Online

1:28:26 - Conclusion

[squall]

Feeling the whiplash of D'Angelo going from blowing up the internet talking about Cody Ko to a 1.5 hour video about the Spy Kids franchise

[caoticcat]

"Do you think god too stays in heaven afraid of what he had created" is still one of the hardest lines out a kids movie EVER

[MidasOfMesses]

Well now I desperately need to hear D’Angelo’s take on Sharkboy’s poor excuse for a lullaby, Lavagirl’s CGI puddle, and, of course, “HE RUINED MY DREAM

[Backspassbarbie]

The fact that we read The Island of Dr Moreau in my English literature course at uni and my first thought was „wait, that’s what happened in Spy Kids 2“ will forever remain iconic to me.

[ginger_nspice]

I have a story. Saw Spy Kids in theatres with my family when I was 7. By pure coincidence, my mom was wearing the exact same dress that day as their mom wears in the movie. For the rest of the night, my mom was insisting she's a spy, "typing" on her makeup pallette, etc. and I didn't know whether to believe her or not lol.

[Chromaggia]

The “Floop is a madman help us save us” scene was literally terrifying as a kid. It still gives me chills tbh. Spy Kids is a horror movie and I’m glad we’re finally starting to have that conversation

[nixsharp]

going from sending the commentary community into tizzy and making them panic into stating they don’t like cody ko to doing a spy kids breakdowns is duality of man and true range

[strawberrywheels]

as a wheelchair user who can also walk, its a *little* correct to say that it requires more arm strength and learning to use a manual wheelchair than expected. but ALSO as a former martial artist, i dont think it would give a tactical advantage (especially depending on the location of his SCI, since its assumed to be an SCI) aside from the fact that we're at crotch punching height.

That being said, the writing of peepaw is really not bad, especially for the time. especially in the first one. like i appreciate the fact that even though he has the "ooh magic transforming wheelchair", a lot of the spy stuff is actually still accessible just with his wheels, so his wheelchair is another spy gadget rather than a way to bypass actual accessibility and inclusion. its genuinely not too bad, and from what i remember the movie also was never like "woe he will do anything to be on his feet again and its so sad that he has to be in a wheelchair again woe😔😔😔 this man's autonomy is a plot device to show how sad being disabled is 😢". its far from perfect, but the fact that it mostly displays disability in a neutral light is so rare for current stories, let alone stories in the early 2000's.

[gogovideo]

Honestly, the reason why the first Spy Kids movie was so good was because of how utterly unhinged the plotline was. It was absolutely a horror movie made for a kid audience. It came from such a brilliant time in pop culture.

[beautibrew]

I watched the original Spy Kids so much as a kid that the memory of being a small child thinking that the microwave thing in the safe house that magically generated a full McDonalds meal was the coolest thing ever and that I desperately wanted one is forever ingrained in my brain.

[astragorgon]

Your gameboy isn't dead btw, that screen just means the game cartridge is corrupted and can't boot.

[eridonstewart]

I love how D’Angelo went from endings career to rambling about their hyper fixation between like a few weeks

[cinna]

Now I want to hear D'Angelo's opinion on Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

[gwendlevs.everything]

I was 19 in 2001.

The reason the Y2K bug didn’t cause problems was because experts spent tens of thousands of hours patching all of the government and financial and other essential systems that would have been affected. The news media blew it out of proportion, and then proceeded to act like there was never anything to worry about. It’s like the people say that it was unnecessary to ban CFCs because the holes in the ozone layer mended themselves — they were only able to do that because we banned CFCs.

[osmanyousif]

Robert Rodriguez has always been an interesting case for me. One moment he's making some fast pace indie-pulp action flicks, decides to do some family friendly franchise, makes a R-Rated spin-off to a character from family friendly franchise, creates a movie that won't be released in 100 years, and teams up with an acclaim $2 billion director to make a sci-fi anime adaptation.

Say what you want about the man. He's had his flops and bombs, especially as of recently. But there's no denying that he knows his way around Hollywood.

[THEDubbleHelixx]

"How many letters in Nintendo? 8. Because that's what they did, " is a killer line.

[_Prudence_]

Elijah Wood being The Guy is the funniest scene in all of the movies

[renataaristimuno]

Speaking as a 2001 baby, "What could be more fun than watching something you love go to complete and utter hell" is our generation's BIRTHRIGHT when it comes to media

[fusetunes]

so glad d’angelo now knows the pain of searching for disney adventures magazines as someone who is obsessed with darkwing duck and has been trying to track all the comics down

[Han_jinhee]

The fact that there was no mention of the Machete series (a rated R series) with Danny Trejo being a spin off of spy kids is criminal