{"id":10183,"date":"2003-06-19T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10183"},"modified":"2018-08-12T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T11:17:32","slug":"stallone-toys-with-comedy-in-spy-kids-3-d-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/19\/stallone-toys-with-comedy-in-spy-kids-3-d-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallone toys with comedy in ‘Spy Kids 3-D’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stallone toys with comedy in ‘Spy Kids 3-D’<\/span><\/strong>
\nBy Andy Seiler, USA TODAY<\/b> [June 19, 2003]
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Sylvester Stallone<\/b> admits his is not the first name that comes to mind when you think of children’s comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But here he comes in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over<\/b>, opening July 25. Stallone<\/b> plays The Toymaker<\/b>, the latest villain up against the young hero and heroine of the popular big-screen series. As an added appeal, this final chapter in the series is shot in high-definition 3-D.<\/p>\n

In Game Over<\/b>, Stallone<\/b> will not just be smashing preconceptions; he’ll be doing it several times over. The Toymaker<\/b>, you see, has multiple personalities.<\/p>\n

“This is a man who’s having all these struggles in his own brain,” Stallone<\/b> says. “I’m stretching the emotional rubber band. Part of him is The Dictator<\/b>, this hellbent, military, crush-them-all guy. I do a little takeoff of George C. Scott<\/b>, but perhaps under the influence of a gallon of espresso. One of them is The Scientist<\/b>. And one of them is The Hippie<\/b>, the peace-and-love and why-can’t-we-get-along-and-let’s-join-hands-and-we-are-the-world kind of guy. He’s definitely a throwback to Haight Ashbury.”<\/p>\n

The Toymaker<\/b> also impersonates a “news reporter, kind of a Mortimer Snerd<\/b>\/TV-commentator type,” Stallone<\/b> says.<\/p>\n

The Toymaker<\/b> has been banished to cyberspace, where he attempts to lure the unsuspecting to join him.<\/p>\n

“And once they’re there,” Stallone<\/b> says, “they’re never going back.”<\/p>\n

Stallone<\/b> knows what that feels like. After writing and starring in Rocky<\/b>, the 1976 Oscar<\/b> winner for best picture, he became one of the top stars in Hollywood<\/b>. But a series of flops had him floundering. His most recent hit was the 1998 computer-animated Antz<\/b>, for which he provided the voice of a tough worker ant. Three of his most recent movies, D-Tox, Avenging Angelo<\/b> and Shade<\/b>\u2014 went directly to video.<\/p>\n

“That happens when you get involved with certain projects that become a shadow of their original conception,” says Stallone<\/b>, who turns 57 on July 7. “You have to learn to roll with those punches. If you do take it personally, it’s a stigma that can stifle you in going any further with your life.”<\/p>\n

So Stallone<\/b> is grateful that innovative writer\/director Robert Rodriguez<\/b> has handed him a plum role in a successful series. And it’s a comedy part, which Stallone<\/b> hasn’t had the chance to try (Antz<\/b> aside) in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

“It’s something that I’m never presented with,” he says frankly. “You are perceived in a certain way. People feel comfortable, and I’m no exception, in going with the safe route.” Stallone<\/b> made eight movies featuring his two iconic figures, Rocky<\/b> and Rambo<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Now he is taking a different road, and he’s well aware of potential pitfalls.<\/p>\n

“I tell my friends when you’re watching Biography, always turn it off before the last half-hour,” Stallone<\/b> says. “It always turns out to be a nightmare ride through career hell. That’s the part you try to edit out of your life.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n– Craig Zablo <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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