by the staff of El Reportero
Film director Robert Rober
Along two decades, the multi-faceted Robert Rodríguez has surprised us once and again with his versatility. Since his debut with the film “El Mariachi”, produced with only 7.000 dollars, his career has been varied and successful. The young Latino director played a key role when bringing to the table the productions that included Hispanic actors and now he positions the Latin-American family with his next film. Even though he became known with action movies for adults, such as “Desperado” or “From Dusk Till Dawn”, in 2001 he surprised us with a children action comedy that told the story of two siblings and their mission to save the world on “Spy Kids”. Ten years after the opening of the movie, Dimension Films presents on August 19, the forth part of this series, “Spy Kids: All the Time in the World”, starring Jessica Alba and the young Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook.
In this opportunity, the movie revolves around the twins Rebeca (Blanchard) and Cecil (Cook) and the tense relationship with their stepmother, Marissa Cortez Wilson (Alba). Nevertheless, after discovering that Marissa actually is an ex international spy who will need to go back to action, to stop a villain who plans to steal time, the kids won’t have much choice other than come to the fight and gather forces with their stepmother, in order to save the world.
Moreover, the movie is presented in an interesting system “4D Aromascope” that reminds us to the old Smell-o-Vision from the ’60s. The system consists on a card that is going to be delivered to the public when they enter the theatre with boxes they have to scratch in different moments of the movie, and that will release scents to make the cinematographic experience more involving and interactive.
Rodríguez says that the idea of bringing Alba to the cast emerged during the filming of “Machete”, starred by the actress, in a moment when he saw Alba changing his son’s diapers. It happens that with nine siblings and being a father of five kinds, family is a very sensitive issue for Rodríguez. In that sense, the Spy Kids series was his opportunity to bring this topic to the big screen, being very successful in the home boxes, to the point that ten years later, the series comes back stronger than ever.
In most of his movies, Rodríguez also acts as screenwriter, photography director, editor or even composer. In Spy Kids 2 and 3 he holds the record, where he appears in seven different credits, showing that there is not something as a too big challenge for this director who is already positioned in action movies for adults, was successful in winning a space in children’s and families’ harts.
