The fifth Spy Kids movie skews even younger than its predecessors in its Bond/Mission: Impossible-for-the-very-young quest. Here, the spies' all-powerful codebreaker Armageddon Code is stolen by a megalomaniac tech giant who wants to control the world's tech-reliant lives. At times barely rising above TV Power Rangers level, the film looks cheap and somewhat empty, and even given its target audience, Armageddon is rather over-talky, the action and villain are anaemic, and the very simple messaging - it's good to be good, kids are better than adults at videogames - is mindbogglingly basic. Sadly, even the sense of fun from the earlier franchise entries is missing, making it quite a grind to watch, but it would likely hit the target for its intended audience.
