By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * * * )
The Famous Five Go High-Tech! This is an exuberant extravaganza that is too big for the "kids' film" shelf. Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino are Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez, spies who were once enemies but fall in love, get married and have
two kids, Carmen (Alexa Vega) and Juni (Daryl Sabara). They retire from the spy business, but an evil minion, named Minion (Tony Shaloub), is sent to kidnap them.
Minion works for Fegan Floop (Alan Cumming), a kiddie-show host who is really out to rule the world.
Floop clones the children of powerful people but the brains aren't up to speed. Floop needs the "Third Brain", which Gregorio Cortez took when he left the spy service.
It's up to the kids to rescue their parents, with a little help from their Uncle Felix (Cheech Marin) and Ms Gradenko (Teri Hatcher), who claims to be a friend of their mother from the old spy days, and all manner of really cool gimmicks.
Rental video, DVD: Today
