Spy Kids 3: Game Over

Spoiler Alert: The following article contains a spoiler.
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I was called away from my little cave (aka: Pastor’s Study) to watch my two younger sons while my wife ran an errand. Still too hot in the middle of the day to go outside, my sons and I sat down to watch Spy Kids 3: Game Over on the Disney Channel.

The movie contained just enough animated special effects to keep the attention of a 4 and 2 year old and contained barely enough substance in its plot to keep the attention of a 38 year old dad. However, at the end of the movie, something amazing happened that I never expected.

The movie was heading toward the typical ending where the good guys overcome almost insurmountable odds to kick the butts of the bad guys. But at the very end, one of the good guys who seemed to have every right to enact revenge on the chief bad guy in the name of justice chooses not to do so. Rather, the two are reconciled.

I find it interesting that Dimension Films (which is not exactly a bastion of tameness when it comes to movie making) can produce a movie that ends with a message of forgiveness, redemption, and reconciliation which are all aspects of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I pray that I, as a member of the body of Christ, the Church, can illustrate Christ’s redemption in my own life as well as Dimension Films in Spy Kids 3.

Billy Belk