#max sharkboy and lavagirl

[foggybear42]

i rewatched sharkboy and lavagirl and this might be my favourite shot in the whole movie

[pokemontheywouldhave]

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[plutonicbees]

watched some of the first episode of smallville and laughed so hard I couldn't finish it (not in a negative way but very much in a "help what is happening" way) (I feel like I need to watch it with a friend in the name of mutual bewilderment)

lana's parents waving at her and then getting HIT BY A METEOR is comedy. they just see it coming towards them and don't even run away before the early 2000s cgi gets them good

baby lex luthor getting HIS HAIR BLOWN OFF BY A METEOR. I'm sobbing. it's giving "he knocked the highlights out of her hair". his eyebrows r still there but oops you're an egg now.

[stellarf0x]

I’ve decided to add a “fight” scene that feels like it might fit into a series for SB & LB.

A dodgeball scene that’s very over the top and anime.

[scifipinups]

Kristin Davis The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3D (2005)

[a1sft]

꩜ characters i strongly believe shifted

REGINA MILLS, ONCE UPON A TIME

JENNA RINK, 13 GOING TO 30

ALICE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND

BRADY & MACK, TEEN BEACH MOVIE

THE PEVENSIES, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

WANDA MAXIMOFF, MARVEL UNIVERSE

MAX, THE ADVENTURES OF SHARKBOY & LAVAGIRL

JAKE SULLY, AVATAR

MIA, MIA AND ME

CORALINE, CORALINE

LUZ NOCEDA, THE OWL HOUSE

WENDY, MICHAEL & JOHN, PETER PAN

EVERYONE, ALICE IN BORDERLAND

WAYMOND, EVELYN & JOBU, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

[yuttikkele]

sharkboy and lavagirl is genuinely such a fun movie to watch, and it ALWAYS will be. I haven’t watched it in a while, but I did watch it again and it continues to hold up and more!

I get so tired of seeing media that fails in everything it tries to do. Like “oh here’s the cool character” that’s actually the lamest person I’ve ever seen, or “oh this is quirky and funny, laugh!” but it’s the most fake “popular girl”-esque joke I’ve ever heard. But sharkboy and lavagirl just takes its cartooniness and FLIES. Sharkboy is actually AWESOME, and the jokes are genuinely funny. The romance isn’t even messed up because there’s barely any romance. The only explicit romance is max’s parents’ marriage healing, and the other two romances are just assumed. Whatever Max and Marissa had going on was a clever little mirroring that allowed Marissa’s character to progress, and Sharkboy and Lavagirl are compliments, red character x blue character DUH.

maybe I got my humor from sharkboy and lavagirl or something cause when i see a place for a joke in another piece of media, but no joke happens, i get disappointed. That doesn’t happen while watching sharkboy and lavagirl!! it makes me so ecstatic.

and Linus actually becoming good. I forgot about that! I thought he was gonna pull Max down, but he actually got a chance, and changed!! (Miraculous Ladybug makes me think this is no longer possible, apparently)

AND THE GRAPHICS!!! i love the graphics they’re such a vibe and you know it!!

love this movie

[auggieboggy]

Late Halloween post

They're lavagirl, sharkboy, and max 😋

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[lishifts]

sharkboy and lavagirl is a movie about shifting!!! YOU CANT TELL ME OTHERWISE it’s both manifestation and shifting. max wishes he could go to planet drool before going to sleep then falls asleep and the next day is when everything happens sharkboy and lavagirl pull up take him all his dreams come true all of them, then he wakes up back in class everyone wakes up then the dream villain comes and they defeat him. not to forget everything they said came true continuously. HIS ENTIRE EXPERIENCE WAS A SHIFT AND YOU CANT TELL ME MAX’S DREAM JOURNAL WASN’T A SCRIPT (edit: also just found out it’s based on the writer’s son’s dreams so like🤭 hear me out his son shifted.) “the following story is true, it might’ve started as a dream but as we saw yesterday. when we make our dreams a reality, reality becomes a dream. so dream a better dream and work to make it real.”

[chaossmith2]

Sharkboy & Lavagirl 🦈🔥

Doing my own little HC where they're portrayed to be more like adults in the story. I think it'd be interesting if SB and LG were meant to represent super idealized "parents" max came up with to serve as escapism from his irl parent's divorce/messy relationship, (since the movie's major theme is using dreams to avoid/cope with problems in the real world) and obv throughout the movie their flaws and insecurities start shining through etc. etc.

[blackbullet99]

Am I the only one who genuinely loves The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl?

Like, I know a lot of people don’t think highly of the movie, and it didn’t do very well. But I genuinely enjoy this movie. I mean the movie is kinda goofy and ridiculous, but that’s kinda the point and all the over the top acting, PS2 CGI and all around cheesiness give the movie a certain charm to it, making it genuinely fun and enjoyable to watch. George Lopez as Mr. Electric and Jacob Davich as Linus are just hilarious to watch, they knew exactly what type of movie this was and didn’t hold back. I mean who could forget this masterpiece of acting.

Both lead actors Taylor Launter and Taylor Dooley (the Taylors as I’m gonna call them) also do a genuinely great job portraying the characters.

Taylor Launter (A.K.A. Jacob from Twilight) really goes ham on this film, it’s really over the top (to the point of literally chewing the scenery) but it’s a really enjoyable over the top performance, if you know what I mean and he has a good range of emotion in this, if that makes sense. Also this song will always be a banger!

Additionally Taylor Dooley’s performance is also a good one. There’s a certain wholesomeness to her.

It’s much more calm and reserved than Launter’s, but I kinda like that, it helps the two to balance each other out, and is also a neat subversion of the fire character being hot tempered and the water character being calm. I also like how her calmness contrasts with her destructive power and her arc of finding a productive use for them. It’s nothing groundbreaking or nothing, but the movie has a good amount of set ups and pay-offs.

But all in all, I think this movie works so well is because it’s literally based on the dreams that a child had. Robert Rodriguez essentially based the film on the dreams of his son Racer Max Rodriguez, and the movie genuinely feels like a dream a child would have, and I mean that in a good way. It explains why everything is so bright and over the top, why everything looks unreal and animated, even a lot of the dialogue was literally written by a child. Some might find this a bad thing, but I don’t know, I myself find this endearing, like looking into the mind of a child, it makes the movie feel like a passion project and it is.

Just check out the behind the scenes video about the making of the movie, as I said before, there’s a certain wholesomeness in the film, and that combined with how entertaining the over the top ridiculousness of everything makes this one of my favorite movies of all time.

And with that statement I’m ready to lose whatever credibility I may have, but I don’t care.

Sharkboy and Lavagirl FOREVER!

[pokemontheywouldhave]

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[chshiresgrin]

cheshire/zenon, they/them/theirs, 18plus, infj-t (1w9), sagittarius (sun) / leo (moon) / leo (rising), chronically ill, and most likely neurodivergent + i have anxiety 'n depression. / ayo, 'm chesh!! ^.^ thank you for stumbling across my silly blog on this side of the internet where i reblog or maybe sometimes write abt interests/etc (lookin' at you, minors, don't interact with any of the occasional nfsw posts, even if there is any)! / i'm just a college student who majors in digital technology arts with an associate in science! / other socials: petezuku (tiktok 'n insta, editing) captainsilverhand (ao3, writing), cheshire (goodreads + letterboxd), and gingersn7ps (serializd).

cerys snow, original character. a song of ice and fire (1996-2011.) sylvia stark, original character. a song of ice and fire (1996-2011.) elvira thompson, original character. the little vampire (2000.) padam wallace, original character. legion (2017-2019.) atsuko takahashi, original character. my hero academia (2018-2025.) vincent parker, original character. cyberpunk 2077 (2020.) valentine palmer, original character. yellowjackets (2021-present.) violet erikson, original character. sweet tooth (2021-2024.) veronica elory, original character. school spirits (2023-present.) charlotte sallows, original character. gen v (2023-present.) / the boys (2019-present.) (...)

where is my mind? — kerry eurodyne & johnny silverhand (seen as platonic or romantic.) / cyberpunk 2077 whataya want from me? — gavin & damien (seen as platonic or romantic.) / redacted asmr you're gonna wish you never had met me (we could've had it all) — peter parker & harry osborn (seen as platonic or romantic.) / spiderman make a deal (with god) — benji (canon character.) / hell followed with us we drew our map to a better place — joel & ellie (platonic.) / the last of us is it really you? — sharkboy, lavagirl and max (platonic.) / the adventures of sharkboy and lavagirl could you be my supernova girl? — zenon karr & nebula wade (seen as romantic.) / zenon: girl of the 21st century the spider in the web — valentine palmer (original character.) / yellowjackets (...)

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credit to @anitalenia (for dividers)

[stellarf0x]

Would anyone be interested in hearing the parallels I have for the relationship between SB and LG and Max’s parents? There’s a lot going on there.

[theaawalker]

Fandoms I'll Write For

Marvel (not Iron Man, Starlord, Loki, Thor, Doctor Strange, or Hawkeye, Drax, Victor Creed, Antman, Adam Warlocke, AG's Spiderman, or Cyclops)

DCEU (not Peacemaker, Killer Croc, JL's Joker, RP's Batman, or anyone from Gotham except Jerome/Jeremiah Valeska)

Scream Queens (not Chad Radwell or Pete Martinez)

American Horror Story (only Murder House, 1984, Freakshow, and Cult)

Hunger Games (not Gale, Maymitch, President Snow, or Cato)

The Maze Runner (not Ava Paige, Jorge, or Janson)

My Little Pony

Once Upon A Time (not Hook, David, Rumple, Neal, Peter Pan, or Zelena)

Pacific Rim (not the sequel)

Twilight (not Seth, Edward, Carlyle, or Jasper)

Stranger Things (not Will Byers, Billy Hargrove, or Jim Hopper)

IT (2017, 2019, and tv series) (not Henry Bowers or Pennywise)

Jurassic Park/World (not Owen Grady or Ian Malcolm)

Jumanji (1997 & 2017)

Zathura (not the dad or robot)

Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill)

Girl, Interrupted (not Jared Leto's character)

The Black Phone (not the Grabber or Mr. Blake)

Teen Wolf (the film & series)

Equestria Girls

Teen Wolf (not Peter, Jackson, Theo, or Derek)

The Office (not Jim, Ryan, or Dwight)

Now You See Me (not Dylan Rhodes or Merritt McKinney)

Descendants (not Chad, Harry, Ben, Jay, or Carlos)

Sky High (not Zach or Speed)

Percy Jackson films (not Luke Castellan)

The Umbrella Academy (not Five)

TMNT (live action ver. only)

Dance Moms (not the final season)

Ender's Game

Wednesday (not Xavier, Tyler, or the Dean)

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (not Mentor Peter Parker)

Unbreakable (not Hedwig or Dennis)

Big Hero 6

The Black Mirror

Dynasty (not Culhane, Adam, or Blake)

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Spy Kids

Sharkboy & Lavagirl

Clue, Knives Out, & Glass Onion

Back to the Future (not Biff), Breakfast Club (not Bender), Sandlot, Stand By Me (not Ace Merrill), Mighty Ducks, The Outsiders (not Dally, Two-Bit, Randy, Bob, Steve, or Darry)

I’m willing to write imagines for underage characters so long as there's no romance (examples: hang out with the Losers Club at the barrens; go shopping with Eleven and Max; play baseball with Finney and Bruce). I’m allowed to deny any request and the longest I should take ever to write one is about 2 weeks. I’ll write smut, fluff, angst, poly relationships, LGBTQ+, etc. Generally most of my x readers are female unless stated otherwise.

What I won’t write-

I won’t write anything to do with rape, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, romance with anyone younger than 18, gun play, anything about poo(sexually), anything about urine(squirting is fine considering it’s not technically urine), age gaps. See guidelines for more details.

Thanks for reading❤️

A.A. Walker

[emptypencilcase]

you ever just sit and think about sharkboy and lavagirl? yeah, me too.

anyway, here’s a (not very detailed) analysis of those two characters and their significance to max in the movie.

So it’s made very obvious to us as the audience that certain characters in Max’s fantasy world are entirely (and might I add, very subtly) based off of people in his own life:

Except for Sharkboy and Lavagirl, right? WRONG. In that universe they are fictional characters made by Max who (in my opinion) were created by him to cope with his shitty life. The reason I think this is because Sharkboy and Lavagirl are personifications of Max’s own insecurities and imperfections.

Sharkboy, personality-wise, is very much like Max; he’s emotional, short-tempered, emo. He also has experiences that mirror Max’s own life, for example: him losing his father. Sharkboy losing his dad is a direct parallel to how Max feels about his own parents, who are too busy fighting with each other to pay their (obviously struggling) son any attention, and even unload their problems onto him. a nine year old?! anyways, Max’s parents’ negligence of him and his problems is his equivalent to them “drifting away”. (much like Sharkboy’s dad did on that lifeboat!!)

Moving on to Lavagirl!! Lavagirl feels like she’s not a good person; all she can do is harm people, and destroy things. She burns. This is kind of like how Max feels about everything in his life; his parents’ marriage, any potential relationship he could form in school, his dream journal- all ruined because he wasn’t good enough. It’s his fault. And that’s what Lavagirl is supposed to represent, that feeling of not being good enough. 

So it would make sense for Max-a nine year old child-to process the world through this lense of superheroes and supervillains. He feels better about his own problems knowing that there are these “heroes” out there with the same problems. But he takes it too far.

Max is a creative kid, we know this. It was obvious since the beginning!! He started building a robot on his own for gods’ sakes?! He uses his creativity as a way to cope, like we’ve seen with him creating Sharkboy and Lavagirl. But the adults in his life are telling him to stop: stop dreaming, and stop being creative. They say this because they can probably see where this is going.

So this mentally ill child is told to stop using the one and only coping mechanism that seems to be working for him, and he tries. He really does try. However, because no one ever bothered to find/teach him a healthier way to help him cope, he goes the complete opposite direction. All of a sudden Sharkboy and Lavagirl are actually real!! and they need Max, and he’s thinking “finally I’m needed, I’m wanted.” when in reality he’s just FUCKING CRAZY AND DELUSIONAL. But that’s what happens. The End.

Oh and I failed to mention, Max probably also has autism and it helps him to view the world using fictional stories/characters. And his unfinished robot is a metaphor for the pressure that is put on him to stop being creative.

ok bye!