Page 1 of how good is the 3D in spy kids 3D?

I`m a bit confused about this film, i know on the dvd one disc is a 3D version of the film the other disc 2D, but in cinema`s was it exclusively shown in 2D? Has anyone seen the 3D version, where you have to wear the silly glasses? How immersive would you say it was, does it really look as if images are coming out of the screen?

It was shown in cinemas in 3D. The downside is it was terrible. Not just the film you understand, you see instead of projecting the image twice as with conventional 3-D films, it used a new digital process to project a `flat` image which was supposed to look three-dimensional with the help of those red and blue glasses. The benefit is that you can have `3-D` movies without the hitch of having to install the right hardware. The down-side is it looks nothing like a three-dimensional image. The result was monochromatic, with red and green hues oscillating so often that I got a head-ache after 30 seconds and had to take my glasses off.

To answer your question, it was not convincing as 3-D, a feeble cover-version that has taken the general concept and made a decayed, homogenous reproduction of it. As I recall, the images never conjured the three-dimensional effect from older 3-D productions. Like the film itself, it`s a cheap knock-off.

--Mike

The 3D works far better if you watch the film on a computer screen. Cheap knock off? No way, dude! I`m a film projectionist, and have watched all the kids flicks of recent years. The Spykids pictures are head and shoulders above all. There just simply fun. And Harry Potter bores me, so there`s no accounting for taste!