Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)
Adventure is an attitude.
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Anna Chancellor, Keith Allen, James Faulkner, David Kelly, Santiago Segura, Connor Widdows, Keith David, Jack Stanley, Joshua Brody, Sarah McNIcholas, James Dreyfus. Paul Kaye, Mark Williams
Director: Kevin Allen
Running Time: 100 minutes
US MPAA rating: N/AUK BBFC rating: PG
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Barely a year after first underwhelming us in Agent Cody Banks, the lollipop-shaped Frankie Muniz returns for this embarrassingly-hurried quick-before-he-gets-facial-hair sequel.
At this time last year I was criticising the original for its utter dearth of - well - originality. But if you thought that film was a pile of heaving guff, you ain't seen nothing yet. Gone is Angie Harmon, gone are the semi-competent action sequences, and gone is the whole point of the first film's premise (i.e. that Cody's a kiddy-wink who's got to juggle being a top CIA spy with keeping it a secret from his parents and getting his homework in on time). Even Hilary Duff is missed - and that can never be a good thing. Ever.
This time, the sleep-inducing plotline drags young Agent Banks and his horrendously over-sized head across to London, where for some reason or other he's to go undercover at a school for musical geniuses (well, I say "undercover", but so lazy is the writing that he doesn't even bother using a false name). Baddie Keith Allen runs around in the background exercising a God-awful half-Cockney half-American accent, Anthony Anderson does his requisite funny fat black guy bit as Cody's handler, and Hannah "S Club" Spearritt does her best to little avail as a lukewarm love interest.
In all honesty, all copies of this film should be thrown a-top a great big bonfire and burned beyond all possible usage. It offers nothing to cinema, nothing to popular culture, and nothing to its audience. Its sole purpose is to cash in on the middle-ranking success of an original venture that really wasn't any good in the first place. It doesn't entertain and, much worse, it doesn't care - which is why, people, I implore you not to take even your worst enemy to see it over the school holidays, let alone your precious, precious children.
It's Got: No redeeming features.
It Needs: See "bonfire" comment, above.
Alternatives: Agent Cody Banks, What a Girl Wants
Summary: Also known as 'Big Steaming Pile of ****'.
Review by Gary Panton
External Links
Official Web Site
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London at the IMDB
Comments3 Comments |
| ok y hasn't n e 1 posted any comments?!?!dis is a realll kewl movie n i like it so much better than d first one even tho hilary is not in it (note:IM AM HILARYS BIGGGGGGEST FAN!!!!!!!!)agent cody banks 2 is full of life threatening secrets and jaw dropping action sequences.d girl who plays d indian girl at d music academy(woodwind buddy lol!)does a good job.i don't really like frankie muniz but i think he suits this movie very well.i liked d mind controlling part.london(my fave holidaying place) provides a gud backdrop.n wat u guyz sed abt hilary is totally true.btw i think mark ruffalo is SSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!(i no tht was off d topic but i hadta get it out)in all, cody banks 2 is a teeth clenching action flick for n e one watever age 2 enjoy!! |
| Comment by:- anupama(hilary's biggest fan) | | 22 September 2004 | ip: logged |
| coooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Comment by:- torch | | 06 August 2005 | ip: logged |
| Why don't you two speak English? But obviously you must be foreign because you think this film is good and that can't be right. |
| Comment by:- jomo99 | | 22 March 2006 | ip: logged |
