Loses lots of the first’s cheesy kid-dreamy charm, thanks to an overload of the spy kids schtick (there’s a whole department now?) and the SFX that go with it (so much green screen). New plot lines and characters are thrown in just because (see Donnagon, the in-laws). It’s a mess, occasionally in an entertaining way (see Romero–“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too is afraid of what he created?”–arriving with his giant animal hybrids at the same time as the President’s flying hummer).
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