Spy Kids

In the summer of 2001, a strange thing happened at the multiplex. Sandwiched between the gritty realism of The Fast and the Furious and the sweeping fantasy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , a tiny, hyper-saturated film about two neglected children saving their parents from a kids’ television personality became a sleeper hit.

When their former colleagues start vanishing, the couple is called back for one last mission, but they are quickly captured by the villain Fegan Floop —a children's TV host who uses a private army of mutants known as "Fooglies" and robotic "Thumb-Thumbs". Spy Kids

The reboot nobody asked for, featuring Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven. It introduced a new gimmick ("smell-o-vision" scratch-and-sniff cards) and a new villain (a ticking time bomb called the Timekeeper). While it lacks the charm of the original trilogy, it cemented the franchise’s legacy: Spy Kids will never be conventional. It will always attempt to break the fourth wall and your sensory expectations. In the summer of 2001, a strange thing

: Many of the franchise's most iconic and bizarre elements, such as the Thumb-Thumbs , were based on drawings Rodriguez made when he was a child. The reboot nobody asked for, featuring Jessica Alba