Agent Cody Banks has a TV movie feel to it. The special effects are kind of hokey, the jokes pretty lame and the stunts looked like they're performed by stunt performers.
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03/18/03
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Agent Cody Banks (2003)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:8
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Should satisfy young teens, but offers nothing new for those who are familiar with the formula.
Theatrical Release:Mar 14, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $47,285,499
Synopsis: To his family and friends, Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a typical teen - he loves to skateboard, hates math, and feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody's got a secret - he's actually... [More]
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David
Director: Harald Zwart
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Reviews for Agent Cody Banks
Top CriticAgent Cody Banks provides the kind of high-quality entertainment one would expect in an adult action adventure that is expected to rake in major bucks.
03/14/03
Top CriticAn entertaining film for kids and young teens.
03/14/03
Top CriticA listless, tween James Bond wannabe.
03/14/03
Top CriticA mundane, kid-empowerment fantasy distinguished only by Frankie Muniz's agreeable blend of haplessness and heroics.
03/14/03
Top CriticBanks takes a nice premise and does absolutely nothing original with it, instead burdening a plot derived from too many James Bond movies with cheap special effects and flat jokes.
03/14/03
Top Critic[Muniz] keeps Cody Banks watchable on energy alone but his scenes with the pallid, uncharismatic Duff are as dull as watching two actual pubescents meet at the mall.
03/14/03
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03/14/03
Top CriticThis movie is so wearying in its mediocrity, the inappropriate Ronica almost registers as dramatic relief. I said almost.
03/14/03
Top CriticSo slick and preprogrammed that even its preteen audience may dismiss it as formula.
03/14/03
Top CriticIllogical, thrown-together claptrap.
03/14/03
Top CriticSorely lacking in suspense, humor or originality, Agent Cody Banks aspires to the lowest rung of the peanut gallery.
03/14/03
Top CriticKids attending Agent Cody Banks won't need candy. The film itself is a 90-minute sugar rush.
03/14/03
Top CriticThe movie will be compared with the two Spy Kids pictures, and looks more expensive and high-tech but isn't as much fun.
03/14/03
Top Critic[Muniz] has an endearing blend of self-deprecation, innocence and smarts that works well here.
03/13/03
Top CriticThis elaborate and good-natured entertainment is never as funny as it should be, but it's also never wanting for energy.
03/13/03
Top CriticThis Frankenfilm comes lumbering out of the laboratory of the Danish director Harald Zwart, any trace of personality surgically removed and replaced by a fully road-tested cliche.
03/13/03
Top CriticAgent Cody Banks may be targeted at teens, but even their grandparents might consider it fun.
03/13/03
Top CriticIs it entertaining? You bet.
03/13/03
Top CriticHad the movie chosen to go the campy route, Muniz probably would have shined, using his face and vacant delivery to their fullest potential. But most of the time, everything is played ridiculously straight.
03/13/03
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