
“Smaller heroes. Just as super.”
Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.
Release Date: 6/10/2005
Runtime: 92 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Budget: $50.0M
Revenue: $72.0M
Companies: Troublemaker Studios
Countries: United States of America
Kamurai
Bad watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend. (Maybe for younger audiences) I understand that this is supposed to be a "power of imagination" kids story, but there is just a lot of garbage in this. The kids seem to do some fairly good acting for what they're asked to do, but I'm not sure why George Lopez was cast, but the writing is weak enough that it could easily just be the writing. The story is designed to look like it's just literally written haphazardly as they go, so it's hard to tell what's badly written, and what's correctly written to make it look like bad kid writing. While the characters of Sharkboy (especially) and Lavagirl are quite ridiculous, there are some fun things that they include throughout the movie, so its not like the movie is completely without quality, but piled together it was not an experience I'd want to do again.

Taylor Lautner
Sharkboy

Taylor Dooley
Lavagirl

Cayden Boyd
Max

David Arquette
Max's Dad

Kristin Davis
Max's Mom

Jacob Davich
Linus / Minus

Sasha Pieterse
Marissa / Ice Princess

George López
Mr. Electricidad / Tobor / Ice Guardian

Rico Torres
Sharkboy's Dad

Marc Musso
Classroom Kid #1

Shane Graham
Classroom Kid #2
Tiger Darrow
Classroom Kid #3
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