 The third Spy Kids movie, Game Over, may be receiving more criticism for the decision to release it in 3-D than for the performances or plot. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times begins his review by remarking: "As a way of looking at a movie, 3-D sucks, always has, maybe always will." Dave Kehr in the New York Times says that the red/green cardboard glasses are particularly annoying: "The tinted filters severely compromise the colors of the film itself, diminishing Mr. Rodriguez's habitually vivid color scheme to a dim gray-green mass." Megan Lehmann in the New York Post has a different reaction: "New technology allows Robert Rodriguez to swoop and twist and pivot his 3-D cameras around. ... But combined with the eyestrain produced by the cheap cardboard 3-D glasses, the resulting vertigo is decidedly unpleasant -- although having moon rocks and blobs of cream pie flying out from the screen is kinda cool in a retro way." On the other hand, Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post apparently was enchanted not only with the director Robert Rodriguez's decision to go 3-D but to use the most primitive form of 3-D viewing -- those two-color lenses. "The best thing about Game Over isn't what's on the screen, but what's on the audience: those nerdy blue and red 3-D glasses most familiar to 1950s movie buffs," she writes. "Delivering a nifty tweak to the ever-escalating digital race in Hollywood, Rodriguez has gone back to film's analog roots, creating an old-fashioned novelty movie in the tradition of Saturday matinee classics like House of Wax." |
