lauralm-49120 This movie is the epitome of trash.have a good day

stormhawk2018 In 2005, Robert Rodriguez' after directing the fantastic "Sin City" along Quentin Tarantino and Frank Miller, he steps down with "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl". I know exactly where to begin on how terribly done this film is: Dialogue: I have never seen a movie where the dialogue was this bad. I mean, this movie makes the dialogue from "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" sound great! I cannot tell you how bad the words that come out of the characters' mouths were. Mr. Electricidad - "I'm the teacher and you know nothing..." OK, so what does that have to do with the small fight that happened between Max and Linus? I swear it's like George Lopez (and pretty much the rest of the actors) had no idea what they was talking about. In fact, his character, including his villain one, had some of the worst puns in the film. How bad, you might ask? Listening to the puns from "Batman and Robin" are more bearable to listen to than this. I kid you not. Max's Dad to Max's Mom - "I don't want you to go, you're my best friend..." he says that extremely laughable phrase in a monotone voice to his 'wife'. After he lets her go into the tornado, she gives out the fakest scream ever and Dad gets this "regretful" face and says "No! No, come back, please..." Yeah, really. Max's Mom to Max's Dad and then viceversa - *She comes out from the tornado with Lavagirl somehow: "I'm not going anywhere..." Despite the fact that you just said that to Dad to take care of you 'son'. Dad then says "Neither am I," to her like he was in any trouble. Like anyone said or implied he was. I don't even wanna begin to write down Cayden Boyd's dialogue because I swear if I did I'd write down about 10 paragraphs. So to sum this down, the dialogue is the worst thing this film has to offer. You're better off listening to the dialogue from "TSNM", "Ghost Rider" and "Crossroads". Cast and Acting: Taylor Lautner played his character throughout the whole movie like he had been stressed out and had a bad day. Taylor Dooley played Lavagirl so wooden that you're wondering how she didn't set herself on fire. Cayden Boyd can't act for nothing and that's a compliment. He looked and sounded like he was going to cry in the entire film. I'm not even going to begin talking on how bad of actors David Arquette, Kristin Davis and George Lopez were in this movie. Sasha Pieterse was pretty much telling us she wanted to be saved from this film, throughout the whole movie she looked forced to act. Characters: The hero of the film, Max, was useless and weak; he should have just jumped into the lava pit with Lavagirl and died. Lavagirl was some weak, pathetic excuse for a heroin who is nothing but a distraction, and the same could be said for Sharkboy. Both of them should have died. Lavagirl is an idiot who thinks has no rational thinking in her head. Really, when Max said they had to go find the ice princess, she says "She is ice and I'm fire, we MUST be enemies". Really logical thinking, right? All that Sharkboy does is be a bully to his own creator, and then insults and whine about how he doesn't have his strength because Max didn't make him the king of the ocean. The two villains were so bad that they should have married each other. They make Gargamel (Smurfs) and Prince John from "Robin Hood" (1973) look like Shan-Yu (Mulan) and Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians). Plot/Story: Apparently the whole point of the film is for Max to find his true purpose in the world of dreams and defeat the villains who are making the whole place a nightmare world. Like we haven't heard that formula before. You have one plot point in the film, another story element added there and then one arc added somewhere else. It's a cluster of inconsistent and incoherent plot points and stories that frankly you're wondering what the real point of the movie is. The we have how the characters travel from one point to another for certain things that later have very little to no use. I still don't even know why Taylor Lautner had to sing in the film. I'm not saying he sang badly (he was surprisingly good at it), but the way they executed the singing here was like the film was going to have some more musical numbers into it. Effects: Even back then when I first saw this film I was able to tell how bad they looked. I wouldn't be surprised if the effects in the movie were the only thing they bothered to pay attention to make right. I can compare the special effects to "Son of the Mask" and that movie had some effects itself. I didn't watch it in 3D so, I wouldn't know how bad the 3D was. Final summation, this film is so bad, it's just bad. It a mishmash between "Spy Kids", "The Wizard of Oz", "Never Ending Story" and some elements of Japanese anime (male primary teacher on charge, Sharkboy's karate techniques and a mention to sushi, the only missing thing was a gym class scene, where the P.E. teacher were female, like in Japan); in a very cheesy and laughable way. Go watch some other laughable movie that's actually bad enough to be good. Even Barney and the Teletubbies together is better than this garbage.How this movie scored over a 4% is beyond me.

BlackCharger Ugh, I found it to be a really really stupid movie, I'm sorry but I don't like this movie at all, it's one of my worst. I know a lot of people like it and that's fine, but I hated it. Yes, I know it's for children, but the thing is, it isn't even dumb fun to me, and while I don't expect too much for a kids movie, this is so stupid I feel as if it talks down to them, obviously the director had good intentions which is the only good thing I can say, and the scene with Linus' bad acting in the line "Send him to the principals office and have him expelled". Apart from that, this movie was boring, it had eye straining with bad CGI, stupid story, dull characters, cringing jokes and bad acting. The song dream also sucks, it is so cringing bad and the dancing is a no no, the singing is... oh god...Okay, with it's horrible CGI visuals, which I know is Roberts trademark style but it's way too gimmicky and it doesn't mean I have to like it, though I liked it on the original Spy Kids, which is a way better movie than this. The colours in this movie hurt my eyes so much and the wacky and awkward movements don't help. The characters do the stupidest things, even though Lavagirl was aware she would burn things she holds the journal and this movie just keeps on continuing... ugh... The burning of Lavagirl is very inconsistent as well. I could point out all the problems I have but this should briefly cover my thoughts on this enough.I might be nitpicking on this movie at some points and yeah it's a dumb kids movie that doesn't age well for many, but even as a kid, I didn't like this. I loved Spy Kids so much I might have expected too much from this. As I said, if you like it, that's cool, that doesn't mean you're stupid or anything, but for me, I'm putting this movie at #3 or #2 worst in my worst movie list, it's not the most frustrating thing ever and it's more like groaning, but the quality and acting is bad so...

Adrian Val Olonan I love the film's plot summary. Max (Cayden Boyd) realizes that his dreams turn for real, incarnating Sharkboy (Taylor Lautner) and Lavagirl (Taylor Dooley), but also bringing to life some danger to the real world. But the CG is very distracting to watch. It's very obvious.I enjoy the movie. I love their adventures. I love the components of Planet Drool. I love the creativity invested in the villains and challenges. But this is a fantasy movie that suppose to convince you that the fictional world is real. Planet Drool looks like a video game background, and it should like alive.One SFX guy from "Resident Evil: Retribution" said, "The more you can shoot for real, the more salable you're visual effects are going to be." The director and the production crew should have used real props and set pieces.I guess the CG worked against them.