Cult director director Robert Rodriguez is best known for his action-packed El Mariachi flicks and inventive horror like The Faculty and From Dusk til Dawn, but the Texas-based auteur knows that there’s always money in family films—which is why his seemingly deathless Spy Kids franchise has a new lease on life.
How to watch Spy Kids: Armageddon in New Zealand
New Zealand fans can catch Spy Kids: Armageddon streaming exclusively on Netflix now.
Spy Kids: Armageddon
What is Spy Kids: Armageddon about?
The general gist of the series is that it’s a family-friendly riff on James Bond, with button-cute kids haring around on secret missions for good-guy intelligence organisation O.S.S. (that’s the Organisation of Super Spies, not C.I.A. precursor outfit the Office of Strategic Services).
Spy Kids: Armageddon functions as a soft reboot, which is fair given that the last film was released 12 years ago and child stars have a tendency to age into adult former stars. The official synopsis of this fifth film in the Spy Kids franchise describes it thusly: “When the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, they must become spies themselves to save their parents and the world.”
Sounds a bit like Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, really, only with less Sylvester Stallone.
The cast of Spy Kids: Armageddon
Robert Rodriguez has never had too much drama attracting top notch casts, and this latest offering features Jane the Virgin’s Gina Rodriguez (no relation), Chuck‘s Zachary Levi once again playing a comedic spy, Billy Magnussen, D.J. Cotrona, and newcomers Connor Esterson and Everly Carganilla as our pint-sized heroes, sibling spies Tony and Patty Tango-Torrez.
No sign of Danny Trejo this time, though. Bummer.
Spy Kids: Armageddon trailer
Why are we excited about Spy Kids: Armageddon?
The cheerfully anarchic Spy Kids movies are huge fun for kids, and RR’s playfulness and tongue-in-cheek sensibilities make them enjoyable for parents, too. Plus, the eight-year-olds grooving on Spy Kids today will be watching Sin City tomorrow—it’s a gateway drug to cool movies. Play the long game, parents!
