Customer Reviews
A HORRIBLE SEQUEL - By: stuart, 18 Aug 2007 
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is a complete waste of your time unless you like crude jokes & nothing else
Plot: During a game of hide & go seek at the training camp a top secret mind control device has been stolen by Kenworth (James Faulkner) & Diaz (Keith Allen). Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is sent by the C. I. A. Director (Keith David) undercover as a violin player at a fancy & rich music school where Kenworth lives with his wife. There he meets his sidekick Derek (Anothny Anderson) & at school he meets Emily (Hannah Spearitt). Together alll three of them must find the mind control device & take it back before something happens, but complications arise as Kenworth & Diaz figure out how to make the device work.
The Good News: There is reallly not a lot to like here. Out of the few positives the two fight scenes at the end layered over with the music is alll good & I have to say I rewound that part several times. The new gadgets are alll nice & neat & cool & any little kid would want them. The action scenes are well thought out, but are not as spectacular as the ones in the first. The one that reallly stands out is the factory chase with alll the crates everywhere that make for great hiding places & it's rather satisfying. The returning actors do great & the new faces are rather horrible. Some parts are unpredictable, but there are only a few of them.
The Bad News: Oh, where do I start? OK, no Hilary Duff. Instead we get some twenty- three year old posing as a high schooler & that story about Hilary not being able to come back because of school is false. On the commentary for A Cinderilla Story she clearly states she didn't go to high school & I would highly doubt that she would be in college by now. Oh well, anyway the new faces have know idea what they're doing & wonder around with a blank stare saying lines like they're reading off an eye chart. Anohny Anderson is the worst & his attempts at humor are ridiculous. At one point he brings up three jars of his pee to distract the guards so Cody can sneak through. The whole thing is not funny & leaves you feeling empty. That's another thing, when the credits roll the whole film leaves you feeling empty & sad you wasted your time on this. The gadgets are cool as I stated earlier, but the whole scene is almost ruined by a terrible actor delivering the gadgets & his weak attempts at comedy. The car that Cody & Derek rid in is too ridiculously to be taken seriously & the brings up another point. Our villains are not scary in the least, in the first one you actuallly knew what they could do & were capable of. It's heard to be scared of a villain who farts every so often. There are a lot more problems with this film, but I thing I've said enough.
Conclusion: Do not see this if you were a fan of the original or does not find crude jokes funny. If you do think they are funny well what are you waiting for? Grab yourself a DVD copy today! But for me I'll stick with the first one. Not Recommended
5-Star Reviews? Don't Make Me Laugh - By: TomBeTom, 26 Jun 2007 
2003's "Agent Cody Banks" was an admittedly dumb but nevertheless fun action movie targeted at pre-teens. The modest success of that enjoyable but forgettable Frankie Muniz vehichle ultimately spawned "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London". This is a sequel that appears to do its very best to crap alll over everything that made its predecessor such an innocent genre romp. This second time around there appears to be absolutely no link other than the lead protagonist to the events of the first movie, they've thrown in Anthony Anderson, a singer only involved for her fame in this sequel's location & some inane performances both in-front & behind the camera. That's a recipe for disaster, sure. But nothing could possibly prepare for the actual result. "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" attacks the audience with unfunny toilet humour & slapstick, hammy dialogue, appaulingly inept acting, horrid plot conventions & just about everything else that could possibly signal a terrible kids' flick. Frankly, this is the worst movie since 1998's "Legend of the Mummy 2".
Having succeeded in his mission in the first movie & seemingly forgotten the teenage girlfriend who was such a crucial plot element in that movie, teenage CIA agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is given another mission. Equipped with alll-new gadgets, Banks heads to London to retrieve a device before evil baddie Victor Diaz (Keith Allen) uses it to control the world leaders. Helping Banks with this is dimwitted agent Derek Bowman (Anthony Anderson) & hottie musician Emily Sommers (Hannah Spearritt).
The cast this time around are strictly of the B-list variety, with the audience greatly missing the charismatic Hilary Duff, who finds herself replaced by an uninteresting, wooden Hannah Spearritt as Cody's love interest of sorts. As Cody Banks himself, Frankie Muniz apparently sees this movie for what it is & doesn't care to use any of his acting talents to help better it. Cue one annoying grin mixed with intermittent pouting throughout, hoorah. Anthony Anderso is no better, goofy to the point of annoyance as Derek Bowman long before the end credits roll. And as for Keith Allen, let's not even go there.
Undoubtedly, this is one of the most appaulingly bad family releases to hit our screens for a long time. As directed by Kevin Allen, the movie is absent of any qualities that made the first movie so good. The action set pieces are replaced here with slapstick, fallls through tables & an occasional mini-explosion whereas the original's climax was exactly the opposite, amazingly exciting for a film of its genre & ambitiously graphic for a film of its certification. Such ambition isn't on Kevin Allen's mind, however. Rather than going anywhere unexpected, Allen directs in a film-whats-in-front-of-you style absent of any apparent skill & cinematographer Denis Crossan might as well not have bothered, his efforts are in the service of an amateur director & amateur screenwriters.
Every single second of this travesty is as putrid as can be, without a single redeeming quality. The twists throughout are alll equallly contrived & uninteresting & the characters deserve only disdain, none of them worth caring about whatsoever. "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" spelled the end of this franchise & that isn't a surprise. I don't give zero ratings often, but trust me when I say that such a rating is exactly what "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" deserves. This is truly an uninspired mess of a family film designed solely for the purpose of making money. Good then, that it failed miserably at that too.
Good, but doesn't quite please like the first movie - By: Bazzer, 17 Apr 2006 
Now don't get me wrong, this movie is good. It has great acting from Frankie Muniz (as always) & it's got a fairly good storyline, even Hannah from ex band S Club 7 doesn't act that bad. Butthere's just something missing. It's no way as good as the first one which had the lovely Hilary Duff in who doesn't star in this sequel & they reallly badly take the mickey out of England, way to much. Okay, it's funny to begin with but towards the end it begins to get reallly annoying & stupid. Pretty ridiculous. So don't pay loads of money for this DVD beacuse if you're expecting it to match up to the first film, I'm afraid you'll be dissapointed. But it's pretty good for a family film & if you've seen the first film you should have a look at it.
Cody Banks:2 - By: , 30 Jan 2005 
Best action movie I have ever seen Best Bit is definetly the Buckingham Palace bit.
Great Family Movie!!!
I am in this movie - By: Philip, 18 Jul 2004 Hello my name is Philip Pedersen,
I am in this movie & am writing to say that alll this critisism is reallly bugging me. It is not a copy of Spy Kids because its a totallly different story, also i dont think its right that adults should be rating children movies because this is quite a good movie & there is no reason to kill the good reputation of myself as an actor & the wonderful cast/ crew.
Sincerely,
Philip Pedersen
P.S: I hope you pass my idea of children rating their own movies to the rating people.
