Antonio Banderas is there for the kiddies.

A Spy Kids revival is headed to Netflix with a brand-new family, with Robert Rodriguez once again writing and directing the new project.

Fall in line the thumb-thumbs!

The Spy Kids franchise is reportedly getting relaunched, and creator Robert Rodriguez is back to write and direct the film.

What do you do when you want to make a movie, but don't have any of the traditional resources to make a movie? You make the fucking movie anyway. Robert Rodriguez, born in Texas in 1968, loved cinema from a young age. The moment he could, he grabbed a camera and filmed everything he could in precociously cinematic style (it would be fair to call Rodriguez one of the chief "video store" auteurs; a director who got his style not from formal training, but from absorbing movie after movie after movie). In 1991, the college student Rodriguez made an …

In 2001, if you were of a similar age as I, you were watching Spy Kids on a VHS over and over again, and having a dang great time. The iconic family film from the iconically multi-talented Robert Rodriguez stars Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as the titular "kids whom are also spies," and they go on a globe-trotting adventure that also involves stars like Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Cheech Marin, and Danny Trejo. It's a crackling piece of entertainment, and a huge benchmark in Latinx representation in the family film space. And, as Rodriguez …

An iconic piece of early aughts kid cinema, Spy Kids (2001) melded 007-style action with Robert Rodriguez’s cartoonish directing sensibility for a pint-sized espionage thriller that was butt-kicking fun for the whole family. Starring up-and-comers Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara as bickering siblings who discover that their parents are actually secret agents, Spy Kids was a bonafide box-office hit that is fondly remembered by an entire generation of kids and pre-teens. Though its success led to a profusion of sequels—the best of which, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams came nipping at the first’s heels in 2002, and the worst of which, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (which was released in "aromascope") came out in 2011—the first is inarguably the best in the series. Below, we check in with the core cast and see what they’ve been up to since hanging up their high-tech binoculars and black tactical suits.