The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D Movie Download

2 / 10

So what if a 54 year-old guy hates it!
The audience intended for “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D” is for kids to about age 11…at the most. So, having another review by an adult saying they hated the film isn’t anything unusual or even totally necessary. The important thing is will kids enjoy this film that has managed to land on IMDB’s infamous Bottom 100 list? I don’t know….and assume for many of them the answer is no…though I am not sure.

So why did I watch the movie? After all, I am not a kid and the film, by many standards, is terrible. It’s because I have a weird hobby…watching as many films as I can from the Bottom 100 list. Some of the pictures aren’t that bad…some are unintentionally funny…some are just terrible….it’s quite the adventure seeing which is the case for each film.

When I first started watching the movie, I was taken aback by the CGI. While it’s one of the earliest CGI-intensive live-action films, compared to similar pictures (such as “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”), it is hideous. Much of it is due to the color palate…and the colors heavily lean towards neon green, neon purple and neon pink. It’s an assault on the eyes and my eyes kept threatening to either bleed or run away and leave me!! For adults, this alone make the film horrid…though kids often love garish colors (as seen in such movies as “The Oogieloves” and TV shows like “Teletubbies”).

The story is about a loner, Max, and his two new friends, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, and their attempt to save the world. The friends have obvious super-powers…so why do they need Max? Well, down deep he does have powers…the power of dreams (yick!). And, together they attempt to rid the world of its worst menace….George Lopez.

I hated the film. The writing was sloppy, filled with cliches and the characters seemed like caricatures. To say the movie was like a bigger budgeted bad Nickelodeon live-action show is pretty much on target. But, and I must repeat, it was never intended to please adults….though making it this tough to enjoy hurt marketing because parents (at least sane ones) don’t send little kids to the theaters alone….and imagining any parent sitting though this is pretty tough! In additon to the terrible writing and CGI, special attention should be given to George Lopez and his rotten and one-dimensional acting. You can’t blame the kids for being bad and in a bad film…but Lopez should have known better. I wonder if he could look at himself in the mirror after making this mess. I hope not.

Finally, I would love to know how this film cost $50,000,000 to make. After all, the CGI isn’t good and was apparently rushed. Perhaps the bulk of the money went to Robert Rodriguez. After all, he has something like a dozen credits in this movie…writing, directing, acting and much more. Regardless, it seems like for the money, it should have been much better.Read More