Customer Reviews

Spy School

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Cardboard acting, bad film technique, poor sound, and no real story....just about says it all for this little tiny skipable movie. It has no relationship whatsoever to the Spy Kids series.

Dad and a 12 year old managed to sit through this whole film, but it was a bit painful for both of us. The story follows a smarty pants 12 year old kid through school. He becomes our hero because he uncovers and solves a plot to kidnap the president's daughter who is visiting the school.

Don't be fooled by the cast into thinking this might be good. Lea Thompson (Caroline in the City star), D.L. Hughley, Roger Bart (the insane new guy George Williams in Desperate Housewives), and Suzy Nakamura (Curb Your Enthusiasm and West Wing) basically all phone in their performances.

You are supposed to believe some kind of love triangle between a British girl, our hero Thomas Miller, and Jackie Hoffman (his sort of tom boy friend). It's out of touch adults trying to write about children's feelings, but making them too adult.

There's not really any laughs here. And no real suspense.

It's hard to imagine how this film even got made. It is G. There are bonus features on the DVD, deleted scenes and some other things. Sadly I felt too tortured already to watch more about this film.

As stated in the othe review, this movie is really awful! I was excited about the movie due to the wonderful actors playing in it, but I was EXTREMELY dissapointed in their performances and the TERRIBLE storyline! If you really want to see this movie rent it, please DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE. You'll regret spending the money(like me) if you do! On another note, the title is very misleading, this has NOTHING to do with a school of spys! Sorry if your dissapointed, but I wished someone had written this review before I purchased Spy School!!!!!!!

Alright, so it's not a 5 star movie....typical 2.5 star kids movie-- but better than the 1 star reviews here. The title is misleading-- they should have stuck with the original "Doubting Thomas" working title, so perhaps the misleading title is the reason for the poor reviews.

For my family the movie was awesome as it was filmed at my kids' school, and neat to see their every day setting in a movie.

I first saw previews for this movie through a trailer on a different movie I had bought. It looked exciting; a kid who goes to a spy school. However, the movie is not like the trailer. The school is not a spy school and I don't know why the movie is titled so. I did enjoy the flick but would caution others to not expect it to be like the trailer or name of the movie.

If you are a big fan of Annasophia Robb then this movie is a must have for your collection. Buy it now, you won't regret it!

We looked for this movie in stores but could not find it. I look on Amazon and there it was. My grandson was so excited. Thanks Amazon.

At the end of this movie i said wow these drugs made this movie awful, then i realized i didnt take drugs and this movie was just a disgrace to mankind. About 3 quarters of the way through the movie Thomas put a stupid phone in the weird bad guys pocket, and i was desperately waiting for the phone to come into play. It didnt. THis movie is a disgrace to america and will probably spark some sort of middle eastern conflict due to its horribleness. Never buy this movie unless you want to feel really bad about yourself. The plot was awful, they wrote is so poorly, and there are so many unanswered questions. The secret service needs to get its priorities straight and protect the presidents daghuter and not a stupid kid that people doubt. My last concern is to why DL Hugely was even considering taking the role of the secret servie agent. I know hes a no talent actor but he could to a little better.



P.S. If you want a actual movie, watch one with an ape in it, like ED or dunsten checks in

When I bought this movie, I was expecting something similar to Agent Cody Banks, but instead it was Big Fat Liar and the very beginning of Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dream. The acting was bad, the casting was bad, the plot, the directing and the music was bad. Anna Sophia Robb is an excellent actress, and did a wonderful job, however, she was the only experienced and decent actress in the whole movie.

I am a big fan of almost all spy books and movies, but this movie had almost no spying in it at all (don't be fooled by the title "Spy School").

I was very disappointed with this movie, and would not recommend wasting your money on it.