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Stars:
Taylor Dooley,
Taylor Lautner,
Cayden Boyd,
David Arquette,
Kristin Davis,
George Lopez
Director:
Robert Rodriguez
Summary: THE ADVENTURES OF SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL concerns a daydreaming youngster named Max whose fantasy stories about the titular superheroes inspire the ridicule of everyone from the local bullies to his own mum. Even Max's fourth grade teacher wants him to come down to earth, but then a tornado brings Shark Boy and Lava Girl into the school to whisk Max off to the planet Drool, where only his dreaming skills can save the day.
Robert Rodriguez (SPY KIDS, DESPERADO) directed this hyperkinetic kids' film based on a script by his pre-teen son, Racer. The plot concerns a daydreaming youngster named Max (Cayden Boyd) whose fantasy stories about the titular superheroes the molten-hot Lava Girl (Taylor Dooley), and a boy raised by sharks appropriately named Shark Boy (Taylor Lautner) inspire the ridicule of everyone from the local bullies to his own mum (Kristin Davis). Even Max's fourth grade teacher (George Lopez) wants him to come down to earth, but then a tornado brings Shark Boy and Lava Girl into the school to whisk Max off to the planet Drool, where only his dreaming skills can save the day. A real kid's active imagination is obviously at work here, because the giddy action flies in all directions with a cheerful disregard for conventions of logic or sanity, and Rodriguez is obviously the right sort of adult to bring such a film to life.