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 Full Review »
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Washington Post: Dan Via
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 Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Janice Page
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 Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Stretching what was a cute concept to the breaking point.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: David Hiltbrand
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.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Scott Brown
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 Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dave Kehr
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 Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ben Kenigsberg
It's hard to despise a movie with the balls to posit that its Blair-look-alike PM has been brainwashed by a corrupt CIA operative, but Banks 2 is really pretty hateful.Read Full Review »