Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

nicolettescott Sharkboy and Lavagirl is the absolute greatest film I have ever seen in my life! The special effects/CGI is comparable to Avatar, maybe even better, especially the part with the singing bubbles. Wow! Those actually looked like real bubbles! I practically jumped out of my seat trying to catch them.Even better than the effects was the acting. Holy crap, the actor that plays Max is so intense and knows his stuff. When he was crying over Sharkboy and Lavagirl towards the end, I'll admit, I shed a tear or two, and I'm a forty-year-old woman who served in the military!But my favorite part was the romance between Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Dang, those two got it going on! I was hoping to see them get down and dirty, but I had to remind myself that this was a kids' movie. Still, I wrote a fanfiction about them on Tumblr.I highly recommend this movie for everyone! In fact, go out and buy as many copies as you can afford and hand them out to everyone you see, because THIS movie is the only movie anyone needs to see.

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.

Scarecrow-88 I did like the ongoing message on the importance of dreams and the kids are sincere, but this is critically injured by the 3-D capture process, with only the aesthetic otherworldly sci-fi background offering a pleasing-to-the-eye backdrop for the action. Cayden Boyd is full of imagination and a diary he carries offers two distinct characters, superheroes Lavagirl (Taylor Dooley) and Sharkboy (Taylor Lautner) which schoolteacher George Lopez discounts as he feels the boy should make the effort to embrace reality and make real friends. There is a bully played by Jacob Divich who makes Boyd's life miserable. A make- believe mission sparked by Boyd's dreams manifests itself with Lavagirl and Sharkboy show up in his classroom needing his help to save their universe from a serious threat... Mr Electric and Minus, both resembling Boyd's supposed greatest nemeses in the teacher that wants him to invest in the real world and the bullying kid who keeps trying to grab the diary and destroy it. Mr Electric wants to use his light plug terriers to shock and maim when he isn't swinging his own cord- plug bolt-shockers in his attempts to put an end to the dreams of Boyd and his made-up heroes. Soon Divich is revealed to be using Boyd's diary to warp the dreams and make things especially difficult. The power of imagination and what dreams can create isn't totally lost on me in this film but the animation of the live action is distractingly impeded by lousy capture process undermining what visual splendor exists in the starry and planetary space occupying the background. David Arquette and Kristen Davis are Boyd's parents...they have this weird scene with a tornado towards the end which involves Sharkboy and Lavagirl rescuing them. Even Lopez's daughter is imagined as a ice princess who has a crystal needed to help defeat Mr Electric. The film emphasizes the troubles of Lavagirl dealing with hot lava, Sharkboy trying to contain his anger, and Boyd summoning the ability to daydream so he can lend a hand to the heroes. A lot of heart in the direction can't compensate for ill-advised decision to shoot using a process that doesn't translate well to the smaller screen without special glasses.

Dom Nickson Spoiler Alert!!! OK the only reason I saw this film was because it was new and I was a stupid kid who was constantly bored. I had my parents rent this and my oh my was this film just bad. I'll start off by saying the affects for this film were just poorly unreal but at least captured your attention. The story really was a bit childish but at least it's got some good things about it. One of the things I couldn't stand about this film was George Lopez because he was pretty annoying as the teacher. He was also a rude jerk who I think personally should of got killed at the end. I mean he insulted the kids whenever he could and he didn't want our hero to even try to be friends with his daughter like seriously. I did like him as the villain though seeing as how he just had to be as much of a jerk as his 2nd character was. Overall this film is for little kids only, it's a fantasy film just like Spy Kids films. I give it a 4 out of 10 for it's creativity and some of the humor.