#spy kids 3

[cy-cyborg]

People on the internet: they can't hire actors who are actually in wheelchairs to play wheelchair users in movies! What if there's a scene where they need to stand up? A wheelchair user can't do that!

Robert Rodriguez: hold my beer

This is a scene from spy kids 3 - a movie in a series famous for its shoe-string budgets, where Ricardo Montalbán's character is in a wheelchair, but spends most of his screen time in a digital reality where he doesn't need it. Ricardo Montalbán was actually in a wheelchair though in real life, so they just used a combination of VFX and camera tricks (and a dolly for a few shots) to film those scenes. Also if I remember correctly the movie ends with him back in the real world, fighting a mech with his jet-pack wheelchair lmao.

The disability rep is dated (as is the VFX lol) and does fall into a lot of tropes I personally dont like, but it's so earnest in their attempts, and the visible effort behind the scenes to include a real, disabled actor outweighs it for me - even as a kid who wasnt fully aware of why.

Bigger studios have no excuse.

I've linked the video I got these screenshots from, they talk a lot about how they handled Ricardo Montalbán's character being out of his wheelchair there. If if you like behind the scenes stuff for campy old movies, I highly recommend it!

[ID 1: a screenshot of the movie Spy kids 3D, showing Juni, the main character in a suit of yellow power armour, talking to his grandfather, who towers over him in red power armour. his grandfather is kneeling so he can be at eye level with him.

the caption underneath reads "where he kneels down and talks to Juni" /end ID 1]

[ID 2: a photo of the same shot but without the effects. Grandpa is shown to be in a wheelchair, and is being held at the needed height by a moveable platform his wheelchair is sitting on. Juni is wearing the armour, grandpa is not, and there are green screens behind them.

the caption underneath reads "but we just had him lowered in a dolly" /end ID 2]

[starlightbelle]

When Spy Kids 3D revealed that the Grandpa had been hunting down the Toymaker we all assumed it was revenge, the movie was framing it like it was a revenge story

Even despite the insistence of him himself, asking Juni to just trust him on this

Then pulled the twist that Grandpa was searching for him, not to exact his revenge for the accident that paralyzed him, but to assure his friend that he was forgiven

[spy-kids-database]

DVD ad for Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.

[snitchesnsneeds]

Chuckling at the fact that these two are the exact same character

[numberfiveisback]

"Who's someone you relate to?"

Me:

no no but this scene was just. peak. this was it. this is what I watched the movie for.

[team-villains]

[glenthusiast]

did no one else realize this man was in spy kids?? i stan "long fingered boy"

[spy-flair-extraordinaire]

It's been 20 years since Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over released to theatres in the US on the 25th... 6 days ago. Yeah, this is fairly late. I wanted to take my time with this and not rush it. I think it turned out well.

I originally sketched Carmen and Juni fully, until I cut the sketches in half each once I finished the sketches. I simplified their game suits to fit the art style and so they're easier to draw. I also took some creative liberties with Carmen's game suit, including giving her a life counter on her chest that she lacked for whatever reason. Hers and Juni's life counters are also glowing, you'll notice. That idea is from the Game Boy Advance tie-in game, where one of the powerups is you shooting a laser out of your life counter.

The pixel effect was inspired by the main cover for Archie Sonic Universe #72, which used a similar pixel effect, as if they were going inside the virtual world.

The movie's logo is different too. I changed the glow effect on the logo from blue to green to match the rest of the poster.

The background of the poster is actually a screencap. Well, technically two screencaps fused together.

I must admit, as much as I love SK3, there's also plenty I would fix and retcon. Plenty. And honestly, the film and its premise feels more like an episode or special of a TV show (funnily enough, the plot point with Valentin going after the Toymaker for paralyzing him was originally an episode idea for the unproduced Spy Kids cartoon that Robert Rodriguez talked about in the SK3 commentary). Doesn't take away my love for the film though, as there's still a lot to like about it.

Game Over... for now..

[flyboytracy]

did somebody ring the dinkster? ☂️🤠

[trevorvergesart]

I bet theres no Spy Kids fandom on tumblr but I have a sticker from SK3 that im offering as a reward on my patreon this month! at the $15 tier you can get all the sticker rewards from the previous tiers, plus this Holographic sticker!

[animentality]

Modern day spy kids 3 line would be:

"I didn't even get...her TikTok. Her Twitter @. Her Snapchat."

[yourfaveisafearavatar]

The Toymaker from Spy Kids 3D: Game Over is an Avatar of the Web.

[spy-kids-database]

The cover to issue 1 of the Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over comic by McDonald's.

[september172013]

Say what you want about his ridiculous villain thing, but the Toymaker was fucking ahead of his time for executing it through a VR-based MMORPG in 2003.

[ah0yh0y]

honestly the song carmen sings in spy kids 2 is living rent free in my head soiconic i mean LOOK AT HER 

she has skates amazing singing. JUNI is an amazing guitarist machete!! best uncle!!! hes so supportive even if he didnt check the batteries best placebo effect

DREAM WA O WA O never gettign out of my head and it should bore into you skull too

[team-villains]

Spy kids made me realize I’m not straight.