In fact, We Can Be Heroes looks to be a kind of legacyquel to Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
When your target audience likes to watch the same thing over and over, that kind of narrative rehashing may be by design.
Talking to Collider, Rodriguez revealed that the title characters appear in We Can Be Heroes “as superhero parents who now have a daughter who has shark and lava powers.
That explains why Netflix wanted Rodriguez to continue the Spy Kids franchise in an animated series, Spy Kids: Mission Critical, and why they’ve now got Rodriguez working on a live-action movie called We Can Be Heroes in the same thematic vein.