So says Lavagirl, herself brought to molten life by the dreams of 10-year-old Max. Looking about Max’s age, she can shoot lava from her hands, and she instantly disintegrates anything she touches. Max concocted her up as a companion to his first creation, Sharkboy, who sports gills and shark-like powers after being raised by great whites.

With Max’s parents on the verge of splitting up, his dreams become so real to him that he gives a report in class on meeting Sharkboy and Lavagirl over his summer vacation. His classmates don’t bite. Led by bully Linus, they hurl insults, paper wads and threats of a schoolyard thrashing.

That all changes when the unlikely duo from Max’s dreams crash through the wall of his fourth-grade classroom to whisk him off on an adventure. With the command to don 3-D cardboard glasses, Max, Sharkboy and Lavagirl blast away in a rocket to save Planet Drool. For, you see, the world where Max’s dreams come to life is slowly going dark, sabotaged by the power-draining Mr. Electric and the mysterious Minus. Together, the trio must battle their way across the Passage of Time, ride the Train of Thought and sail the Stream of Consciousness to restore Max’s dreams before he loses them forever.