Track Listing

1. Cortez Family
2. My Parents Are Spies
3. Spy Wedding
4. Spy Kids Demonstration
5. Parents On Mission
6. Kids Escape House
7. Pod Chase
8. The Safehouse
9. The Third Brain
10. Buddy Pack Escape
11. Oye Como Spy
12. Floop's Song (Cruel World)
13. Spy Go Round
14. Minion
15. Sneaking Around Machetes
16. The Spy Plane
17. Floop's Castle
18. Final Family Theme
19. Spy Kids (Save The World)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99863 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-10
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Soundtrack, Import
• Original language: English, Spanish

Customer Reviews

WOW!!! :)
This CD is very Good! My favorite song is Spy Kids (Save the World)!!! I'd recommend this CD to kids of all ages! You should also buy it if you're getting the movie when it comes out!!! ;)

Surprise!
While I was browsing the liner notes of this album, I was shocked to see that no less then five artists contributed to this film score, ranging from the hispanic pop group Los Lobos ("La Bamba") to lush film composer Danny Elfman ("Batman, Edward Scissorhands") to the film's director Robert Rodriguez. Usually, the old addage of "too many cooks spoil the soup" comes to mind. With this many people involved, the results are almost guaranteed to be a mess.

Surprise! There's an exception to every rule, and "Spy Kids" is it! Instead of having one person work on each track, each one adds their own strengths over the entire album, making it a wonderfully cohesive whole.

In keeping true to the film's locations, the whole score is tinged with a slight salsa feel, straight out of Buenas Aries, and you can hear that delicate sounding guitar in nearly every track. This is the primary contribution of Lobos, Rodruiguez, and veteran rocker Harry Gregson-Williams ("The Rock").

From there, Elfman and fellow composer John Debney ("SeaQuest DSV") add a lush orchestral tapestry, adding depth to the whole. Indeed, Elfman's trademark dissonance and offbeat percussion are perhaps the biggest thing helping to elevate the music from merely "good" to "great." Elfman is even given his own moment to shine, with "Cruel World," the theme song to the villain's deranged TV show.

The only real dissapointment on the album is the final track, "Spy Kids (Save the World)," a pure pop track with shallow, self-referential lyrics that nearly undermine the fact that it's at least not a boy-band, or a Brittiny wannabe.

Also in the liner notes, Rodriguez states that he wanted to create "... the coolest spy music this side of Bond." I think he and his team have succeeded wonderfully. That it also happens to be for a kid's movie is entirely incidental.

Awesome!
This soundtrack has some awesome songs in it and sort of retains that "Mission Impossible" theme. I liked the movie, and I was not disappointed with the soundtrack. I think that the movie was one of the best "starring kids" movies of all time. So, I give this and the movie four stars, and my hat is off to the talent behind it all.