Spy Kids: All the Time in the World

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World continues the family spy series with a new generation at its centre. Marissa Wilson, a retired agent, has settled into suburban life with her husband Wilbur, a television reporter, and their baby. Her two stepchildren, Rebecca and Cecil, regard her with little warmth and have no idea she once worked for the OSS, an agency that now stands as the world's leading spy organisation after the Spy Kids division was shut down. When the villainous Timekeeper threatens the planet, Marissa is recalled to service and her stepchildren are drawn into the mission, forced to work together and with her despite their differences. Former Spy Kids Carmen and Juni Cortez lend a hand. Robert Rodriguez directed and wrote the film, producing it with Elizabeth Avellan. It is the seventeenth of the twenty-four features he has directed, following Machete and preceding Machete Kills. Rowan Blanchard and Mason Cook play the stepchildren, with Jessica Alba as Marissa, Joel McHale as Wilbur, Jeremy Piven as the antagonist, and Alexa PenaVega returning as Carmen.

Made for a budget of 27 million dollars, the film took about 86 million dollars worldwide. Audience response has been poor: it holds a rating of 3.6 on IMDb from roughly 31,000 votes and 4.7 on TMDB from over a thousand. A critics' rating of 3.9 from sixty reviews is similarly low. The numbers indicate a wide but largely dissatisfied audience.