adonis98-743-186503 With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain. Packed with lots of silly jokes, terrible and over the top perfomances and characters and just a very boring and bland storyline 'Agent Cody Banks 2' is missing completely what made the original so nice and fun and instead it goes on the other side of the road with just being an over the top and quite silly sequel. Plus where was Duff in this one? huh? Stick to the Original only. (5.0/10)

bkoganbing The year before our teenage CIA agent was dealing with nanobots that eat carbon and silicon. In Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, Frankie Muniz is on assignment in the British capital to chase down a defecting agent and the mind control device he's been developing. The defector by the way is Keith Allen who ran the summer camp where the CIA trained its young agents and that the parents of same know nothing about its real purpose.One thing unchanged from the first film, parents Daniel Roebuck and Cynthia Stevenson are as clueless as ever and apparently as clueless as the rest of the adult parent population who send their kids there. That business makes the film hard to swallow if you're over the age of 18.Instead of shapely Angie Harmon as Frankie's handler, he gets Anthony Anderson instead. They get to stay in an English castle where they believe a scientist collaborator, James Faulkner is working on the device. Muniz is part of a visiting teen orchestra, an international grouping of kids bringing something new to the classics as you see. As for Anderson, he goes in as a cook and he introduces the British aristocracy to soul food and they actually like it.As Frankie Muniz was growing up and he did considerably between the first Cody Banks film and this one I'm guessing either he and his producers or both arrived at a decision that to keep this series going would be ludicrous. He was 19 then and still playing a high school kid. After this he couldn't have carried it off.As I said about the first film, all right for adolescents, adults would have a hard time swallowing all of this.

Jackson Booth-Millard The first film was quite a kiddie spoof, or tribute almost, to James Bond, unfortunately, this sequel, even in James Bond's country, isn't as good. Basically Cody Banks (Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz) this time poses as a gifted cello playing pupil to attend a music school, and at the same time foil some bad guys who are creating some mind control chips. Joining Cody is less experienced Derek Bowman (Scary Movie 3 & 4's Anthony Anderson), and Scotland Yard counterpart Emily Sommers (S Club 7's Hannah Spearritt), and they go against rogue agent, now bad guy Victor Diaz (Keith Allen). That's really all I can say about the story, it really isn't that memorable. Also starring Cynthia Stevenson as Mrs. Banks, Daniel Roebuck as Mr. Banks, Four Weddings and a Funeral's Anna Chancellor as Lady Josephine Kenworth, Bridget Jones's Diary's James Faulkner as Lord Duncan Kenworth, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's David Kelly as Trival, Paul Kaye, aka Dennis Pennis as Neville Trubshaw, The Fast Show's Mark Williams as Inspector Crescent, Volcano's Keith David as CIA Director and James Dreyfus as Gordon. It may be in London (in my home country), Anderson may add some needed humour, the gadgets and special effects aren't as cool as before, and Muniz doesn't really do as well as he did previously, all in all, more for the kids who enjoyed the first one. Adequate!

g-bodyl Before I saw this movie on DVD, I had low expectations about this film because of the negative reviews about it. I must say that I liked it, a lot. This film is just as good as the first Banks minus Hilary Duff. This time around, Banks attends a CIA camp during the summer. One night, troops came to take the leader of the camp away. But, Banks thought it was just a drill. How wrong he turned out to be. The guy who escaped is a mind-control geek and he wants to use the devices to take over the world. Banks must head to London, team up with two more agents(a hot chick and an agent who stays in London), and stop the world from turning into mind-control freaks. The acting is great especially with all three agents played by Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, and Hannah Spearitt. The plot was a simple one with a few comedic points added in. I recommend this movie to everybody. I rate this film a 9/10.