Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Critic Reviews
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As ingenious and lively as the original film. Read the full review
Apart from funny supporting work by the inventor of the Mind Control and the guy in the "Q" role, the movie is pretty routine.Read the full review
Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning. Read the full review
Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease").Read the full review
Stretching what was a cute concept to the breaking point. Read the full review
Mildly diverting caper. Read the full review
So the movie's OK in spots, but it's mostly so familiar that even the young target audience may get that deja vu feeling.Read the full review
At bottom, there's just too much spy in young Cody, and too little kid. The writers might've taken (another) page from the ''Spy Kids'' playbook and infused the action with youth relevance.Read the full review
Mr. Allen's work is compromised by an apparent inability to match his shots in a spatially coherent fashion. It's never easy to tell who is chasing whom and in which direction, a needless confusion that dampens many of the thrills and scuttles quite a few gags. Read the full review
Opens with its snazziest effects sequences and gets cheaper from there, as if studio executives were constantly scaling back the budget as the filmmakers went along.Read the full review