Wait, what?

I dont know what you're talking about. I thought the sequels were crap, as was shark boy and lava girl (no effort whatsoever, he farted it out on the side of sin city as indulgence to his son Racer or Rebel or whatever) but i thought Spy Kids 1 was nothing short of fantastic. It feels like a movie that a really cool kid made, and i cant think of a kid that it wont click with.

I thought the first two Spy Kids movies were pretty damn good, as far as kids movies go. The third one was an abortion of a trainwreck of a disaster of a movie. Shark Boy and Lava Girl was somewhere in between the two - I never need to see a red/blue 3D movie again - ever.

Doesnt he do these kid movies to fund his bigger projects ala Sin City movies

Although many of the posters on IMDB are childish, are any of the people who keep trash-talking RR's kid movies, actually kids? Do you have kids? My six-year-old's absolute favorite movie is Spy Kids. She also loves Spy Kids 2 and Shark Boy and Lava Girl more than anything Disney has put out to date.

There is a simple reason you don't like these movies. Ironically, it's the same reason you like his other stuff.

Try looking at it through the eyes of a child.