Mission 3D
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| German title | Mission 3D | ||
| Original title | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2003 | ||
| length | 3D version: 84 minutes 2D version: 79 minutes |
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FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Robert Rodriguez | ||
| script | Robert Rodriguez | ||
| production |
Elizabeth Avellan , Robert Rodriguez |
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| music | Rebecca Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez |
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| camera | Robert Rodriguez | ||
| cut | Robert Rodriguez, Vince Pace |
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Mission 3D (Original title: Spy Kids 3D: Game Over , Alternative title: Mission 3D: Game Over ) is an American action film from director Robert Rodriguez in 2003 while the third film of the Spy Kids film series, with the the series comes to an end. The leading roles are cast with Antonio Banderas , Carla Gugino , Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara .
action
June Cortez actually wanted to withdraw from his life as a secret agent. But then US President Devlin asks him for a new mission. He is supposed to penetrate the virtual video game Game Over and prevent it from taking possession of the global players. With his sister Carmen trapped in the game, June has no choice but to take the job and free her. He also has to prevent Toymaker, the creator of the game who is trapped in his own game, from breaking free.
At the headquarters of the OSS , Juni is brought into a weightlessness chamber, in which the game that the agents had previously hacked into becomes a reality for him. Like every other player, he should start in the first level, look for his sister in the fourth and advance together with her to level 5, which is commonly known as “the level that cannot be won”. If you do succeed, fame and fortune are said to await you. In level 5, June is supposed to paralyze the server with a certain switch before the game goes online at midnight and is therefore accessible to everyone. He has 12 hours for that, otherwise the playing children would be so captivated by this game that they would become slaves of the toymaker. To make matters worse, June is not allowed to free the Toymaker from his virtual prison.
While June initially has serious problems finding his way around in the game, he gets to know his life points , which are counted by a display on his chest. At the beginning he has nine lives, due to high falls or similar imponderables the player gradually loses all points until he is eliminated with zero points. June gets to know Rez, Francis and Arnold, who are allowed to try the game as beta testers in front of everyone else and who want to clear the big treasure after level 5. To get rid of him as a competitor, they shoot June at the moon and tell him that level 2 is there.
Once on the moon, June receives a message from Francesca and Donnagon Giggles, who are leading his mission. He may choose another player who will be at his side from now on. June chooses his physically disabled grandfather because he is sure that his upper body and head are fitter than the rest of the family. When his grandfather is in the game, he reveals to his grandson that the toymaker is responsible for his handicap. However, a power-up gives the old man enormous physical strength and the ability to run back. However, June has to go on alone, as his grandfather is chasing a butterfly.
He comes to an arena in which giant robots, controlled by the players on a platform, fight against each other. June has to face Demetra, whom he defeated after a tough fight. Back on earth, June meets the three beta testers again. Because of his new armor, they consider him to be the "the one" from the game poster who can supposedly get you through the unwinnable level 5. To prove this, June should consist in the Megarace , a breakneck race against other players. With the help of his grandfather, June can also win it, but in the end he is harassed on the last few meters by a masked driver. This driver turns out to be Demetra, whom June falls in love with as the game progresses.
Together with his grandfather, Rez, Francis, Arnold and Demetra, Juni sets off into Levels 2 and 3. Demetra reveals to June that she knows the real "The One" but that she can help him close Carmen with the help of a cheated game plan Find. Shortly afterwards, June as the “best” and Arnold as the “strongest” player have to fight against each other. June is vastly inferior to Arnold, but is replaced by Demetra before Arnold can steal all of his life. When Arnold then beats Demetra, June collapses sadly because he doesn't even have the email address of the "real" Demetra.
In the following level 4, the group very quickly meets Carmen, who takes over command. Guided by the toymaker, they quickly reach the portal to level 5. Here Francis Rez explains that he had read something in the manual about a traitor who is driving the players into the hands of the toymaker. Now he thinks June is that traitor. Then the real "The One" appears who guides them to fight together and to win the allegedly unwinnable level against the prognosis. But hardly having reached level 5, June loses all life points due to an energy trap.
Demetra reappears as if by magic, apparently due to a programming error. You have found the exit from the level that leads to the big win, she says. Carmen, however, identifies Demetra as a traitor because she is part of the program and not a real person. At that moment, a huge broadcast appears from the Toymaker explaining to the players that they are now his prisoners. As it now turns out, he directed the fate of the group the whole time, from the powers of his grandfather to Demetra's help. However, June's grandfather shut down the game and figured out a way for the other players to return to the real world as well.
At the headquarters of the OSS, the grandfather made it clear that he could only end the game by releasing the toymaker. Francesca and Donnagon are angry about this practice, because it means the end of the world. Indeed, shortly afterwards, giant toymaker robots attack the city. Together with their family and characters from the first two films (Floop, Minion, Garry and Gerti, Romero, Dinky Winks, Romero), June and Carmen fight the robots for a certain time, but they find that their powers are not sufficient in the long run. Therefore the grandfather, now sitting in the wheelchair again, faces the toymaker alone. After a short conversation, the old man explains that he had not been looking for the toymaker for years to get revenge, but just wanted to tell him that he would forgive him. The Toymaker then stops the attack and makes friends with the rest of the characters.
Technical aspect
The Reality Camera System 3-D , also used by James Cameron for the IMAX - 3D documentary Ghosts of the Abyss (2003), was used as the 3D camera recording process, but it was projected differently. While Cameron used the polarization process to enable a colored impression, Rodriguez's film anaglyph was shown with red / cyan glasses , which in the end results in a colored, but qualitatively somewhat weaker 3D impression.
Production, background, publication
The shooting of the film began on 10 December 2002 with a budget of about 39 million US dollars in Austin and in Comal County in the state of Texas and was completed in April of 2003. The special effects come from the KNB Effects Group , CIS Hollywood , Hybride Technologies , Janimation and Troublemaker Digital Studios , among others .
It is a co-production of Dimension Films , Los Hooligans Productions and Troublemaker Studios on distribution from Buena Vista International .
Guest appearances include George Clooney , Salma Hayek , Bill Paxton , Steve Buscemi , Elijah Wood and Selena Gomez , all of whom have worked on other Robert Rodriguez film projects .
The film premiered on July 13, 2003 in Austin, Texas, and was released in US cinemas on July 25, 2003, and in German cinemas on February 5, 2004 under the title Mission 3D: Game Over . It was broadcast on German television under the title Spy Kids - Mission 3D .
It also ran in Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia and Venezuela. It was also marketed in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Philippines, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Panama, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Israel, Belgium, Estonia, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, South Africa, Austria, Denmark, South Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, Kuwait and Portugal.
DVD
The film was released on June 23, 2004 with a German soundtrack on DVD, provider: Buena Vista, Touchstone Home Entertainment.
Soundtrack
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Game Over , written by Rebecca Rodriguez and Robert Rodriguez,
performed by Alexa Vega , produced by Robert Rodriguez and Carl Thiel -
Heart Drive , written by Robert Rodriguez, Carl Thiel and Donnell Overlord Robinson,
performed by Bobby Edner and Alexa Vega, produced by Carl Thiel and Robert Rodriguez - Spy Kids Main Title , written by Harry Gregson-Williams , Gavin Greenaway and Heitor Pereira
- Spy Wedding Theme , written by Robert Rodriguez, Steve Berlin , David Hidalgo , Conrad Lozano, Louie Pérez and César Rosas
- Demetras Theme , written by Rebecca Rodriguez
criticism
“Another infusion of the Spy Kid story as a 3D version, which is out of the ordinary due to its elaborate production process, since the entire design of the film was created on the computer. Only the nonchalant guest appearances of well-known stars stick a bit, while you quickly forget the loose sequence of (game) episodes. "
Stefan Ludwig from the Filmstarts .de editorial team was of the opinion that the story "degenerated into a minor matter" that seemed to happen "more by chance" than "when influenced by the main characters". The 3-D glasses advertised on the movie poster were perceived as rather annoying. "The film lacks sophisticated technology, if you wander into the background, you can see emptiness or boring and loveless landscapes".
Kino.de found: "A pleasurable, harmless piece of fun that should be well received by the kids - regardless of the poor reputation of mini-bonds in this country."
Awards
- 2004: Golden Raspberry for Sylvester Stallone as "Worst Supporting Actor"
- 2004: ASCAP Award in the “Top Box Office Films” category for Robert Rodriguez
Web links
- Mission 3D in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mission 3D at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Mission 3D at Metacritic (English)
- Mission 3D in the online film database
- Mission 3D in the German dubbing file
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Mission 3D . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2003 (PDF; test number: 96 116 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Mission 3D . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Mission 3D - Game Over DVD
- ↑ Mission 3D. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Mission 3D - Game Over at filmstarts.de. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
- ^ Mission 3 D at kino.de. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
