Shorts (2009)
Directed by Robert Rodriguez
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
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Not since the first Spy Kids has Robert Rodriguez delighted ankle-biters as much as splatter fans (Sin City, Planet Terror), but this episodic romp is bouncy enough.
When he's not producing pulp fiction such as Sin City (2005), his ultra-violent adaptation of the Frank Miller comic, he does children's films.
He either makes the most bloody, violent, adult-themed action flicks ("Desperado," "From Dusk Till Dawn," "Sin City," "Planet Terror"), or he makes children's movies ("Spy Kids 1-3," "The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl").
But the same hand clearly guides all Rodriguez’s movies, and it delights in over-the-top moments—whether it’s the ultra-violence of Sin City or a super-intelligent baby battling a crocodile in his new film, Shorts.
Austin's rebel without a crew, Robert Rodriguez works in exactly two filmmaking modes: fast, cheap, genre violence (the El Mariachi trilogy, Sin City, Planet Terror) and fast, cheap, CGI-overloaded family adventure (the Spy Kids trilogy, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D).
“Alita” has a little more in common with Rodriguez’s techy children’s films like “Spy Kids” and “Shorts,” but lacks their heart.