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The result was a film that felt like a fever dream drawn by a toddler who had eaten too many Gushers. And it worked.

Spy Kids launched a franchise (the less said about Spy Kids 4 , the better, though we’ll always have the baby with the jetpack) and turned Rodriguez into a family-film icon. It gave us Danny Trejo as Uncle Machete (a character so cool he got his own R-rated spin-off). It proved that Latinx-led family casts could open blockbusters without a single white savior in sight. Spy Kids

There is a line that hit 8-year-olds like a freight train and hits 30-year-olds like a brick: The result was a film that felt like

So, here’s to the Cortez family. Here’s to Floop. Here’s to the Fooglies. And here’s to all the kids who grew up wanting a weird, gross, magical spy watch instead of an iPad. Long live Spy Kids . It gave us Danny Trejo as Uncle Machete