Agent Cody Banks 2 - Destination London Reviews
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Really pretty hateful, shooting for the bulk of its laughs at the expense of those wacky foreign kids and the endlessly humiliated Anthony Anderson.
... tedious, forgettable and wholly unnecessary.
Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning.
Here's just about everything a 6-year-old spy would hope to find in a kiddie-espionage flick, with just a twinge of romance, but nothing serious to interrupt Cody's undoubtedly continuing career.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Kids may well find the film diverting, but there's just not a lot of creativity or energy here.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The same young teens who cozied up to the first picture will probably enjoy the sequel, but it won't win many new fans.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Even by kiddie-flick standards, this one, directed by Kevin Allen, is astonishingly lame.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London should have been stopped at customs -- as family entertainment, it constitutes child abuse.
| Original Score: 0/4
With lots of cool gadgets, plenty of silliness and a clever concept guaranteed to appeal to preteens, this should be an unflagging, high-octane romp.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
After 90 minutes of diligently searching the premises of ACB2, no evidence of mass entertainment can be found.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Director Kevin Allen offers a lot more gadgets in Cody 2, but surprisingly little in the way of memorable action.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Apart from funny supporting work by the inventor of the Mind Control and the guy in the 'Q' role, the movie is pretty routine.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
No matter how adorable you think Muniz is, it's becoming increasingly hard to buy him as a socially inept teenager/spy.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is simply not worth the trip.
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| Original Score: 2/4
This is as joyless a spy caper as one could devise.
| Original Score: 2/5
The subversive humor that occasionally brightened Agent Cody Banks is absent from this sophomore effort.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Muniz's considerable charm keeps things moving along briskly, and there's more than enough here to keep pic's target audience engaged.
Muniz is quite winning as a plucky teen who is constantly being thrown into situations over his head. But the usually reliable Anthony Anderson e-mails in his performance as Cody's handler.
| Original Score: 2/4
A nonsuspenseful and painfully unfunny series of comic stunts that try to have sport with the image of the garrulous American abroad.
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| Original Score: 1/4
The teen Bond's latest mission finds the would-be franchise creatively Banks-rupt.
So, will your kids like this same old song with British scenery? Possibly, if they liked the last one, but a little less-so.
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| Original Score: C-
Malcolm loyalists are too sophisticated for this simple script, and fans of the spy genre have so many better options.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
There's just too much spy in young Cody, and too little kid.
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| Original Score: C-
