Spy Kids:Carmen and Juni Cortez will soon find out that their favorite bedtime  story, "The Spies Who Fell in Love," is really the story of their  parents. So begins this affable fantasy, a James Bond adventure for wee  ones with all the trimmings. When Dad and Mom (Antonio Banderas and  Carla Gugino) mess up their first mission after coming out of  retirement, their kids must come to the rescue, equipped with some cool  gadgets. The Cortez family gets involved in a bizarre plot hatched by a  Pee-wee Herman-type entertainer named Fegan Floop (a wonderfully hammy  Alan Cumming) that's as giddy as it is ridiculous. Needless to say there  is plenty of derring-do concerning long-lost uncles, goofy monsters,  double agents, evil robots, look-alikes, and energized chases. Did we  mention the gadgets? Although Banderas and Gugino make terrific  impressions, the movie is carried (as it should be) by the younger  Cortezes, winningly played by Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara. Who would  have thought an action/horror studio (Dimension) and writer-director  Robert Rodriguez had this pleasing family film up their sleeves?  Rodriquez (who produced with his wife Elizabeth Avellán) seemed to be  mired in cheesy horror films but here breaks out by capitalizing on the  talent that gave him instant status with his debut,El Mariachi(1992).Spy Kidshas plenty of verve but never swerves into potty humor (OK, there is  one good potty joke) or wicked gunplay. All 7-year-olds should have a  film as fun as this in their movie-going lives.--Doug ThomasSpy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams-This delightful sequel toSpy Kidsdemonstrates once again  writer-director Robert Rodriguez's remarkable gift for wild invention.   Carmen and Juni Cortez (Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara) are now regular  operatives for a spy agency, but a couple of rival spy kids are making  their lives difficult. When an important gadget gets stolen, Juni gets  blamed and loses his job--but Carmen hacks into the agency computer,  reinstates him, and sends them off on a high-security mission to a  mysterious island to clear the boy's name. The pace is zippy, every  situation is crammed with dazzling eye-candy, and the cast is  great--Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino return as the kids' parents,   Steve Buscemi plays a crackpot scientist, and Ricardo Montalban comes in  as the kids' grandfather. Fans of the classicSinbadadventure movies will particularly enjoy the elaborate creatures that Carmen and Juni battle on the island. Pure fun.--Bret FetzerSpy Kids 3: Game Over-The adventures of pint-sized secret agents Juni and Carmen Cortes (Daryl Sabara and Alexa Vega) continue. AsSpy Kids 3-D: Game Overopens, Juni has left the spy agency and launched a career as a private  detective--but when he learns that his sister Carmen has disappeared  into a nefarious multi-user computer game, he agrees to go in after her,  with the assistance of his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban).  Three-dimensional special effects launch us into a topsy-turvy world of  battling robots, souped-up motorcycle races, frogs on pogo sticks,  surfing on hot lava, and much, much more. The story is even more  incoherent than an actual computer game--but the movie storms along,  driven by  writer/director/editor/everything-else Robert Rodriguez's  sheer visual enthusiasm. Featuring Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas,  Carla Gugino, and everyone else who appeared in the first twoSpy Kidsmovies.--Bret Fetzer