A colorful, noisy, slapstick romp very loosely in the mold of his imaginative, hugely commercially successful Spy Kids franchise, multi-hyphenate Robert Rodriguez’s Shorts robustly embodies an age-old principle familiar to many parents: that a certain slice of adolescent entertainment is primarily about an all-out assault on the senses. A chopped-up and shuffled selection of a half dozen episodic stories built around the havoc created by a magical wishing rock, the movie connects best when taken as a sort of a love-action cartoon, an exercise in kiddie wish fulfillment. This means, yes, a lazy, poorly edited ending that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but also crocodiles walking upright, giant dung beetles and a rampaging Booger Monster. For the full original review, from Screen International, click here.