I'm a little late to this party but that's only because I ended up watching this dumpster fire in the early weeks of 2021. Now when it comes to movies I'm not a picky person heck when I found out this was made from the same guy who made spy kids and sharkboy and lavagirl I was honestly a little excited since those movies were my childhood. Oh how wrong I would be in 2 hours. So I watched this movie twice, once with my sisters and once by myself to get an in depth feeling to it. Here's the thing the movie had its moments that got a chuckle out of me, but then i'd be blasted back to the cringefest of the story and acting.
The characters: so since i cant remember names I just gotta say almost all of the characters in this movie are bland and underdeveloped. The only characters that were decent were the grandmother, wheels, that facemorph kid, and the girl who turns out to be an alien mainly cuz she was quiet. The adults heroes were pretty awful with the only one being slightly interesting was the swordguy. There also was a recurring joke in the movie with the dollar store flash and his son who was slow, but those were really bad. nothing much to say about anyone else, sharkboy and lavagirl were really disappointing. 3/10
The plot: yeah so aliens come to earth but unlike independence day they're here to just test some children to lead earth. That doesnt seem so bad like they have powers and they saved their parents. however here's main problem they didn't stop the aliens, everything was acted out, such as the part where the kids found a random alien ship landed and all ready to be taken. Nothing much stood out tbh the whole movie just led to a transition of power of adults to kids. Now as a teen bout to be adult I see this as iffy, like i get its important to keep the next generation ready to take up the responsibility of adulthood, but the way they conveyed this was dumb, the kids went through none of the hardships that make us like them, showing us the problems they face is what makes marvel and dc infinitely better than this.
The cgi: 3/10 really it went hit or miss with the cgi and thats because i tried to think of the enjoyment i got from spy kids. They had their moments such as the aliens bursting out of the vent. However most everything else was meh. Later in the movie when they're in the ship I swear it looks like they took the background of being inside the Halo alien ship and just changed the color a bit.
so this movie in my opinion is 2/10 and thats only because they had those 3 second moments that made the movie a bit better