Director Robert Rodriguez revisits the fictional world of his 2005 flick, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, in new Netflix movie We Can Be Heroes, debuting on Christmas Day
It has been 15 years for the reason that premiere of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, Director Robert Rodriguez’s fantasy journey children’ movie that was hyped because the film occasion of 2005. It fell in need of expectations, however Rodriguez clearly retained a deep love for this imaginary world—deep sufficient that he was eager to revisit it with the forthcoming Netflix standalone sequel, We Can Be Heroes. And sure, the unique Lavagirl, Taylor Dooley, makes an look.
(Spoilers under for The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.)
Rodriguez is an impressively versatile director, from his early Western/motion movies El Mariachi (1992), Desperado (1995), and From Nightfall Until Daybreak (1996), to the Spy Children franchise and final 12 months’s science fiction blockbuster, Alita: Battle Angel. After the success of 2003’s Spy Children 3D: Recreation Over, Rodriguez pitched one other immersive children’ movie, based mostly on a narrative by his younger son, Racer Max. It featured a younger boy named Max, uncared for by his dad and mom and bullied at college, who creates an imaginary dream world in his journal, known as Planet Drool. The inhabitants embrace Sharkboy (Taylor Lautner), son of a marine biologist, and Lavagirl (Dooley), who tends to set issues on fireplace—in addition to “plughounds” and singing bubbles known as LaLas. However when the college bully steals Max’s dream journal, these goals begin to bleed into actuality.
