The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl

Synopsis:

Sometimes the most amazing superheroes are the ones inside your dreams. So discovers ten-year-old Max (Cayden Boyd), an outcast little boy who has become lost in his own fantasy world in an attempt to escape the everyday worries of dealing with parents (David Arquette and Kristin Davis), school bullies and no-fun summer vacations.

Max's imagination has him blasting off on a mission to Planet Drool with Shark Boy (Taylor Lautner), a kid once lost at sea and raised under the watchful fins of sharks only to become half-shark; and Lava Girl (Taylor Dooley), a volcanic beauty who emits leaping flames and red-hot rocks!

Planet Drool looks like the perfect kid paradise until Max meets up with the shocking Mr Electric (George Lopez) and his sidekick Minus (Jacob Davich) who are trying to do away with all dreams forever. With Shark Boy and Lava Girl in trouble, only Max can guide them - by imagining every clever move of their wily escape from Mr Electric's lair. Speedily conjuring up an incredible array of gadgets, gizmos, contraptions and cool ideas... Max learns the power of turning his dreams into reality.

What the critics are saying:

"An innocent and delightful children's tale that is spoiled by a disastrous decision to film most of it in lousy 3-D."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"Robert Rodriguez's intentions seem honorable: to make a charming, low-tech, 3-D movie for children, based on the writings of his preteen son. But the result is astoundingly boring and, frankly, tedious to sit through."
- Desson Thomson, Washington Post

"It's not just that this fable about a picked-on kid whose dreams come true is an excruciatingly dumb kids' movie. It's that it returns us to the bad old days of 3D, when the images were rendered too murky to appreciate."
- Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press