If you loved Spy Kids, try We Can Be Heroes

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. We Can Be Heroes has roughly 4.5× fewer votes than Spy Kids — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Spy Kids

2001 · dir. Robert Rodriguez

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We Can Be Heroes

2020 · dir. Robert Rodriguez

What they share

Both films are directed by Robert Rodriguez, and they both carry the cozy, playful mood tags, and they sit in Action / Comedy / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to Spy Kids, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

cozyplayful

What We Can Be Heroes is

Superhero kids save the day, because adults are busy. Kids of captured heroes team up. Rodriguez's film is predictably fun.

If you loved Spy Kids, try We Can Be Heroes

Spy Kids

We Can Be Heroes

What they share

What We Can Be Heroes is

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