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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

2003 film by Robert Rodriguez

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ550196 ↗
Source-derived summary

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (also known simply as Spy Kids 3: Game Over) is a 2003 American 3D spy action comedy film co-produced, written, shot, edited, composed, and directed by Robert Rodriguez. It is the sequel to Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and the third installment in the Spy Kids film series. The film stars Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Ricardo Montalbán, Holland Taylor, Mike Judge, Cheech Marin, and Sylvester Stallone.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over premiered at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas on July 13, 2003, and was released in the United States on July 25, by Dimension Films. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed over $197 million worldwide against a production budget of $38 million, becoming the highest-grossing film in the series.

Though this was initially intended to be the final installment in the Spy Kids film series, it was eventually followed by a fourth film, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, in 2011, and a fifth, Spy Kids: Armageddon, in 2023.

Plot

Over a year after the events of the second film, Juni Cortez has retired from the OSS and now works as a private detective. One day, he is contacted by President Devlin, the former head of the OSS, who informs him that his sister, Carmen Cortez, is missing, forcing him to return.

At the OSS, Juni is reunited with a now-reformed Donnagon Giggles and his wife Francesca who explain that Carmen is stuck in a game due to the Toymaker, a former OSS informant who was imprisoned in cyberspace. He has since created Game Over, a virtual-reality based video game which he intends to use to take control of children's minds and the world's youth.

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“Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over” enters the record as 2003 film by Robert Rodriguez. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kids, Game and Over can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2002, 2011, 2023—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2003-01-01, 2004-02-05, 2003-07-25—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kids, Game and Over.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q550196. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2002, 2011 and 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.