The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

It's terrible 3-D. I think the story is terrible as well.

Script-wise, the film dutifully harps on the importance of dreams and believing in oneself, but it is painfully repetitive and something that is proclaimed more than demonstrated.

A half-baked world no kid would want to visit.

Nothing's scary, and everything's so light it's on the verge of evaporating.

The film’s naïve charm, filtered through Rodriguez’s big kid-in-a-candy-store filmmaking sensibility, engages on the level of childlike—and at times defiantly, delightfully childish—imagination.

Kids will love the 3-D aspect of this movie.

Robert Rodriquez continues in the vein of his "Spy Kids" films with another visually frenetic kiddie crowd-pleaser that will leave adult chaperons exiting the cinema nursing headaches.

The words Robert Rodriguez would come to regret saying for years to his son: "This would make a cool movie".