{"id":23471,"date":"2024-08-20T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2024-08-20T21:07:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T01:07:50","slug":"spy-kids-4-all-the-time-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spy-kids-4-all-the-time-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{2\/5} &#8220;Spy Kids have always been able to beat the bad guys because adults over-think things. But to a kid, everything is possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World<\/strong>, released in 2011<\/p>\n<p>Wilbur Wilson has a reality show where he hunts for spies. But he doesn&#8217;t know his own wife was a spy. She quit when she had a baby. But now she&#8217;s being called back into action to deal with the Time Keeper, whose actions have caused time to speed up.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this movie as a kid, that&#8217;s fine. If you liked it as a kid and later think it&#8217;s hilarious, that&#8217;s OK too. But if you watch this as an adult without any nostalgia for this series, you will be cringing a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Many parts are silly, and a few are disgusting. There&#8217;s a lot of slapstick, and things that don&#8217;t make sense.<\/p>\n<p>Things that are supposed to be funny are usually not. The puns are the worst I&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of spending time with your family would be fine except it&#8217;s repeated in an absurd way.<\/p>\n<p>One redeeming quality: Child actors Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook do a good job with what they&#8217;re given.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Jessica Alba, Joel McHale, and the voice of Ricky Gervais.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Robert Rodriguez (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/alita-battle-angel\/\"><strong>Alita: Battle Angel<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{2\/5} &#8220;Spy Kids have always been able to beat the bad guys because adults over-think things. But to a kid, everything is possible.&#8221; Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World, released in 2011 Wilbur Wilson has a reality show where he hunts for spies. But he doesn&#8217;t know his own wife was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-23471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23474,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23471\/revisions\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}