History YMMV / SpyKids

* SoBadItsGood: The third film, often considered the best one for being the most hilarious.

** The ''sheer'' lunacy of "The Guy" being built up in ''Game Over'' only to appear and be '''booted''' immediately afterwards. The sheer fact Elijah Wood plays him makes it more surreal.
** "shit talking mushrooms"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Another meme quoted line from ''Island of Lost Dreams'' during Carmen's fight with Gary Giggles. The actual line was " You're so full of shiitake mushrooms", however due to Carmen's ''off beat pronouncation'', it make it sound like "shit talking mushrooms". [[ItMakeSenseInContext The skeletons gasping during the line makes it obvious the writers knew what they wrote]].[[/labelnote]]

** The president announces the new head of the OSS during his speech at the party. The screen he reads off of starts saying, "Gregorio Cortez", but then changes to "Donnagon Giggles". They way it happens makes it blatantly clear that his teleprompter was hacked, not experiencing a typo or malfunction, yet he never questions it. For that matter, the president is clearly about to say, "Gregorio Cortez" before his screen changes, yet no one at the party is suspicious of the obvious sabotage going on. Also, the president's announcement alone probably shouldn't be the deciding factor for who becomes head of the OSS, and the decision was probably already made before his announcement at the party. Shouldn't someone be investigating why his speech was changed instead of automatically instating Donnagon as the head?

** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Someone should fire the architect who designed the office of the head of the OSS]]. There is [[NoOSHACompliance no way that room is safe at all]]. For one, there is no floor. There's just a regular desk on an elevated platform with very little walking room, and the only way to get across the deep abyss it stands in the middle of is to walk on very small floating platforms that fly over to beneath your foot just before you would take a step and fall to your death.

** And this happens to [[spoiler:their dad!]]

** The second film arguably falls under this despite its respectable rating with fans and critics. The third however plays this trope straight between its copious amounts of ConspicuousCGI, DullSurprise acting and disjointed plot.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The 3D in the third movie is very poorly done, barely resembling 3D at all. Understandable, seeing as this movie came out when the advent of 3D was still trying to get on its feet, and the movie itself was filmed using a primitive version of Creator/JamesCameron's 3D camera system.

** The third movie is also filled with this.

* CriticalDissonance: The first and second films have 93% and 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, respectively, but audience scores of 45% and 38%. Also, on Website/IMDb, the average ratings for the films are are 5.4 and 5.1.

** The second film and the third one.
** [[FranchiseZombie And here comes a fourth....]]

** At the beginning, Juni has warts on his hands. Later on, the same actor stars in ''WorldsGreatestDad'', as a [[ADateWithRosiePalms frequent masturbator]]. You know what they say...

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: With its agents constantly going rogue, and its use of children for dangerous missions, it's not hard to argue that the OSS are corrupt and villainous, particularly when Juni [[spoiler:decides to quit being an OSS agent]] after seeing how some of their top agents are expected to act.

* TearJerker: Gregario imagining himself trouncing a bully's parent (which he easily could) and impressing Juni. All he wants is to be his son's hero.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: With its agents constantly going rogue, and its use of children for dangerous missions, it's not hard to argue that the OSS are corrupt and villainous.

** "Do you think God stays in Heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Often used in a similar vein to {{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'s "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" to express horror at the apparent stupidity of the human race[[/labelnote]]

** "Do you think God stays in Heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?"

** SOMEBODY ING THE DINKSTER?

* {{Squick}}: At one point in the second movie, Gerti and Gary wind up in a desert (due to Carmen and Juni's medaling) and are unsure of where they are. They fall into what at first seems to be a mud pit, only to look around and see camels surrounding them. Horrified, Gerti exclaims that it is, indeed, [[spoiler:camel poop]]. Skip a few seconds into the future, and you see Gary opening his mouth and spitting a big chunk of...er, "mud" out of his teeth.

* TheyJustDidntCare: The fourth film has a [[ContinuityPorn special Spy Kids room full of different props and paraphernalia from the Kids division]]...much of which was not directly related to the division at all, such as equipment from the Third Brain experiment, and the battle suits from Game Over. ''Which didn't physically exist.''

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: With it's agents constantly going rogue, and it's use of children for dangerous missions, it's not hard to argue that the OSS are corrupt and villainous.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Emily Osment my dear? Is that you with the [[ItMakesSenseInContext helicopter hair?]]

** The president announces the new head of the OSS during his speech at the party. The screen he reads off of starts saying, "Gregorio Cortez", but then changes to "Donnagon Giggles". They way it happens makes it blatantly clear that his cue card screen was hacked, not experiencing a typo or malfunction, yet he never questions it. For that matter, the president is clearly about to say, "Gregorio Cortez" before his screen changes, yet no one at the party is suspicious of the obvious sabotage going on. Also, the president's announcement alone probably shouldn't be the deciding factor for who becomes head of the OSS, and the decision was probably already made before his announcement at the party. Shouldn't someone be investigating why his speech was changed instead of automatically instating Donnagon as the head?