Spy Kids II

[Far_X]

Ok, I know, I am way out of date for watching the latest kids movies but I have just watched this for the first time and was quite impressed when they got their "rebreathers" out but then most disappointed when I saw bubbles coming out. What sort of rebreathers were they? And don't you think their rapid ascent was not a true reflection of emergency diving skills? Do we have a whole generation of kids thinking that if they get into this scuba malarky they can go whizzing up and down fast on scooters? Let's get the movie makers to be more responsible. Let's have more movies of the quality, and realism, of "Open Water"!!!

 

[Robert Phillips]

Probably the same type they used in "The Italian Job."
Are there any positive pressure rebreathers?

 

[baitedstorm]

my favorite one is in that movie Deep something or other (not important enough to remember, only watched about 4 minutes of the thing) where the divers are speaking to each other with normal regs in their mouth. Last time I did that no one heard anything and I managed to get a mouth full of water....

 

[Kim]

Actually I had an instructor who could shout at you underwater - he was quite famous for it!

 

[Vie]

I thought the best movie "rebreather" was in Charlie's Angels - it was basically a Boblbee backpack with a small Drager Dolphin-type tank slung underneath..

 

[Turtleburp]

semi-closed rebreathers and as for the kids who cares if they ascend quickly?

 

[Knomraski]

Well, I recently saw "After Sunset". I found it rather odd that a group of people - 3 of which had admittedly "never been scuba diving before" - had no problem throwing on all of their gear, jumping into the ocean, swimming down to a shipwreck, and penetrating the wreck whilst putting upwards of 200 feet of distance between themselves and their dive buddies. Most interestingly, they did all of this AT NIGHT.

I have to wonder if the director/writer deliberately had the divers break every single rule in the book, just to see if anyone would notice.

The movie just plain stunk. Horrible acting, horrible directing, unnecessarily convoluted plot, no romantic chemistry between Pierce Brosnan and Salma Hayek, all of the stunts could have been performed by my dead grandmother (who has no arms). It really was just a horrible movie.

On the bright side, Salma Hayek has very nice mammaries. So overall, I give the movie a 9.6/10. What can I say? I give extra credit for boobies. Double extra credit actually - one for each.