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Antonio Banderas, Alan Cumming, Carla Gugino, Daryl Sabara, and Alexa PenaVega in Spy Kids (2001)

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Spy Kids

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Featured in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" Say It Isn't So/Wit/The Brothers/The Tailor of Panama/The Gleaners and I (TV Episode 2001)

      Clips appear in the teaser for the next episode.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Spy Kids/Tomcats/Someone Like You/Amores Perros (TV Episode 2001)

      Reviewed.
    • "Troldspejlet" Episode #25.5 (TV Episode 2001)

      reviewed + footage used
    • "Bad Movie Beatdown" Spy Kids 3D- Game Over (TV Episode 2011)

      detailing the rest of the series
    • "Hollywood's Top Ten" Antonio Banderas Movies (TV Episode 2011)

      Honorable mention, clips show

Followed by

    • Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

    • Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)

    • Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011)

Referenced in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" Blow/All Access/Just Visiting/Along Came a Spider/Just Melvin: Just Evil (TV Episode 2001)

      A still is shown for the "Now in Theaters" bumper. Thumbs up from Ebert; thumbs down from Roeper.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Freddy Got Fingered/The Body/Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles/The Center of the World/Keep the River on Your Right (TV Episode 2001)

      Referenced during the "The Center of the World" review.
    • "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" $0 Winners Edition, Show 1: Brian/Jon/Martin (TV Episode 2001)

      Referenced in one of the Fastest Finger Questions.
    • "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" Jolene/Amanda/Karen/Jesse (TV Episode 2001)

      Referenced in one of the $16,000 questions.
    • "Siskel & Ebert" Training Day/Shot in the Heart/Joy Ride/Serendipity/Our Lady of the Assassins (TV Episode 2001)

      Referenced when discussing "Max Keeble's Big Move".

References

    • Freaks (1932)

    • The Wizard of Oz (1939)

    • Vertigo (1958)

    • Village of the Damned (1960)

    • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

      Source of influence and inspiration

Spin-off

    • Spy Kids Learning Adventures: Mission - The Man in the Moon (Video Game 2004)

    • Machete (2010)

      In both "Machete" and "Spy Kids", Danny Trejo plays a character named Machete" Both films were written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Also, underneath the title screen in the original Grindhouse trailer, it is registered to 'Machete's Body Shop', which was the name of the Spy Kids character's business in the original film.

Spoofed in

    • UglyDolls (2019)

      parodies of the Spy Kids.

Spoofs

    • Thelma & Louise (1991)

    • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

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