Worst kids movie of the year. unbelievably crappy.

Anyone who thinks popcorn commercialised peices of contempoary, not even contempoary but martek orientated crap should have their IQ tested and then get back to me with the LOW score.

Waste of money, time, and brain cells. This movie's only attraction is the 3-D and even that was obnoxious...stupid waste of money. It was supposed to calm the kinds I was babysitting, not make them as disgusted as I was.

Two words came to mind while I was watching Shark Boy and Lava Girl, "THIS BLOWS"

Awful. braindead. boring. my kids hated it as much as i did.

Regret this movie's existence. painfully bad, even for a kids movie.

Poor. falls flat. waste of time and money.

Want to piss off your children? take them to this ugly, uninspired, insulting movie.

Can't stand movies that talk down to kids. an annoying movie.

i thought 3-d would be an intresting movie choice. baaaaaad idea. many effects can easily be considered unrealistic and the plotline is just too horrible. non-recommendation, but i've seen worse.

This movie was absolutely HORRIBLE!!! The jokes are lame, the story is bad, and the animation is even worse! Like the spykids series, it just got worse and worse as the movie went on. DO NOT see it, you'll ruin your eyes!

Did the directors, who make good or decent films stop trying to work hard on their later work?

My poor children my poor poor children. i wonder how many hit lists Rodriguez is on now.

I went to see this with my son. Frankly, it made me want to strangle myself in my seat with my tie. Never, ever go see this movie, whether you're 5 or 50. Run for your life.

The worst pathetic piece of cr@p of a movie ever to destroy the poor inocent minds of thousands of small children pitifuly unfortunate enough to get draged along to this.

Dumb dumb dumb. my kids were uncomfortable. robert owes me thirty bucks.

An utter piece of crap.

Bad for kids, worse for adults. I quote another 'reviewer' who said, 'What RR proves is his ability to make movies no one wants to see but in an interesting way.' let's hope that there will be a sequel that no one wants to see.

What was Rodriguez Smoking? This year he gets my hopes up for his work after seeing Sin City then he does a 180 on me and decides to make this junk. He was betteroff calling this Spy Kids 4!! For Shame Robert..For shame!

Just saw this at an advance screening and I'd like to ask, simply, what's wrong with Mr. Rodriguez making a bad movie now and then? Sure, as the same American public who anted up box office success for Geo Lucas and his most recent cinematic cough drop, we'd like to expect that Rodriguez barfs gold every time he picks up the phone to call his agent, his development people, who-have-you. Fact of the matter is, he owes us - yes OWES - us a really bad movie and this may be the first [not counting Dusk til Dawn, or the movie about Mexico that was all shooty and dumb] of several movies intermingled with his usual platter of raw and bombastic entertainment that will be considered sub-par. Of course, that's not to say you shouldn't shell out $15 to go see this head-scratcher! It is Robert Rodriguez after all, and he's made such a large number of fairly good to really good films, it almost encourages a viewer to use their imagination a little - settle into your seat and imagine a long string of shots from another film he's made and I'm sure you're bound to enjoy yourself, if only slightly.… Expand

I've seen a lot of films in my time. But this was undoubtedly the biggest piece of crapola that I've ever witnessed. Warning: Do not pay a cent for this turkey!!!

I think there should be someway of stopping little kids from commenting on this movie. Obviously they're going to give it a score. This movie is good for everybody under 8. For everybody else it's just a stupid random piece of junk. The 3D is clearly there to make up for the 1 dimensional characters. Unfortunatly the 3D just makes the movie look dumber, as for the jokes, I did even smile at them. Half the time I couldn't even tell that they were supposed to be jokes. It seemed as though the characters were just pointless stating facts. And did I mention the acting, it sucked! Also it's unfair that a young boy gets to come up with stories from movies, just because his father is a director. All kids have a great imagination, what makes Racer's ideas so special. I could write a better story than him without even trying… Expand

Horrid movie, what ever age you are it will live with you as the worst 90 of your life. George Lopez at his worst. i was forced to watch it with my niece and wanted to shoot myself the entire time

This movie is the epitome of pitiful movies. CORNY is an understatement.

Wow, so bad. so so very very bad. was that a movie or a leathery and limp attempt to pry movie-tie in dollars from the hands of weak parents? next time, just sell us the concept, offer us the cheap breakable kid's meal toys at taco bell and save yourself the trouble of making such a pathetically bad film.

Three words could have saved us all a lot of wasted time and money...straight to video.

This Movie Sucked Eggs!!!

This was the worst excuse for a film I've seen in a long time. It says it all that the people on here who've given it high marks have left such thoroughly retarded comments.

Bad. Painful. Horrible. Then the musical number started. If my kid didn't like it so much, I would run the disc over with my car.

This movie sucked so bad i wanted to throw up during the whole movie. Fake Fake piece of crap. Only someone so stupid and imature would even watch this more than once oh nd for the record sharkboy is UGLY all yous have bad taste both in movies nd guys. o and lava gurl is ugly and stupid. all are idiots for liking it BIGGEST PICE OF S*** ON EARTH.

This movie has the lowest form of graphics ever. Plus, it's EXTREMELY CRAPPY!!!!!

The acting is terrible, the plot is boring, the graphics are ordinary and the overall presentation is horrible. Everything in this movie is terribly bad................

This has to be the worst 'movie' I've ever seen. I saw only 20 minutes, because it was so unbearable I had to ragequit. The 'movie' is embarrassing and it seems like guys responsible for this were on drugs! What is worst is that my country released dubbing which makes everything even WORSE!!!

ACTING - 4
The acting left a lot to be desired in this movie. Everything seemed so unrealistic. The best actor was probably Taylor Dooley. She did a wonderful job of getting mad, and could be very sweet when she needed to be. Taylor Lautner was okay, but he portrayed Sharkboy as a character that was always mad, and it became monotonous after the first twenty minutes or so. Cayden Boyd Was okay as Max, but he seemed uninterested at times, and he looked like he was about to throw up when he was supposed to be crying, which left a bad taste in my mouth.

PLOT - 3
The plot was very disconnected and felt like it kept changing all of the time, which left me confused at points. The plot seemed utterly ridiculous in the first place, causing all of the changes to just make it worse.

SPECIAL EFFECTS - 7
For constant special effects composed in a 2005 film, this was a good attempt. The lava was almost realistic and Mr. Electric was somewhat impressive. Although some special effects were awfully cheesy, most of them were pretty solid.

OVERALL - 4.6 (4)
Although Sharkboy and Lavagirl may impress toddlers, it will not impress anyone else. As a "family film", it leaves the rest of the family in pure torture of having to sit through this.… Expand

WHAT THE **** is this piece of ****? Are you kidding me?! I'm so angry it makes me bleed out of my eyeballs! Seriously, just...watch it and see for yourself how bad it is. Quick! Incinerate all the copies in the world!

Robert Rodriguez loses his Spy Kids style in Sharkboy & Lavagirl. The script is terrible and drowsy, and the action is quite frankly, boring if not so imaginative it sucks. It aims to be a kids movie, but is Rodriguez the right director for kids?