Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London

Plot synopsis:
Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) attends summer camp, actually a secret facility for training CIA teenage agents. When a group of CIA soldiers attempt to abduct head counselor Victor Diaz (Keith Allen), Cody helps him escape, mistaking the CIA operation for a training exercise. The director informs Cody that Diaz stole disks containing plans for a secret mind-control device, and sends Cody to recapture him.
In the United Kingdom, Cody poses as a summer orchestra student at the Kenworth estate to spy on owner Lord Duncan Kenworth, suspected of working with Diaz, supported by his handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson) and Kumar, Derek's right-hand man, who are disguised as a chef hired by Lady Josephine Kenworth and a taxi driver respectively. Whilst keeping his mission a secret from his fellow students, Cody sneaks around the estate and confirms that Diaz and Duncan are working together and that they have a working prototype of the mind control device, evidenced when Duncan makes a dog serve drinks and play the piano.
The next day, Cody breaks into a lab owned by Duncan, where he sees the finished device: a microchip inserted as a filling into a tooth cavity by dentist Santiago. Shortly afterwards Cody and Derek chase Diaz, armed with a rocket gun, through London streets, but Cody is captured by the Metropolitan Police Service and taken to Scotland Yard. He is later freed by Emily (Hannah Spearritt), a fellow student who, similar to Cody, is actually a British MI6 undercover operative. While Emily buys coffee and soda, henchmen sneak up on Cody, knocking him unconscious by drugging him with spray. They kidnap him and implant him with the microchip.
Under Duncan, Santiago and Diaz's influence, Cody meets the CIA director, who is then also converted. This is witnessed by Emily, who explains things to Derek. To get the microchip out of Cody, Derek cuts one of Cody's gadgets, exploding Mentos mints, into a precisely minuscule amount to safely remove it. The group later realise Diaz's plan: to implant all of the world leaders, who are all in London for a G7 summit at Buckingham Palace, effectively giving him control of the world.
Deducing that with the CIA director under Diaz's control, they may be put on a most wanted list, Cody, Derek and Emily infiltrate the party before the summit. There, they realize that most of the dignitaries have already been implanted due to bizarre behavior and Duncan being appointed director of the Royal Mint by the British Prime Minister (upon accepting this, Duncan cruelly states to Josephine that he is leaving her). They explain the truth to the other students, who are performing for the guests, and urge them to keep the world leaders from attending the G7 summit. They later proceed to do so with an impromptu but rousing performance of War, accompanied by dancing and clapping from the assembled dignitaries and Queen Elizabeth herself, whilst Cody, Emily and Derek search for the villains. Derek is implanted with the microchip, and is set on Cody by Santiago. Before Santiago can kill him through Derek, Emily finds and subdues him, disabling the mind control software and rescuing the U.S. President, who was to be implanted.
Shortly after Cody kicks out Derek's microchip, the two of them remove the CIA director's microchip. Diaz, realising that his plan has failed attempts to flee, but ends up fighting, and being defeated by Cody in the Queen's gift room, destroying numerous priceless artifacts in the process. Duncan also attempts to escape, but is tripped by his apparently senile and blind butler, who turns out to be Emily's handler and is arrested, much to Lady Kenworth's delight.
After the villains are arrested, Cody returns to the camp, where Derek is now in charge as reward. Cody's parents pick him up, none the wiser about his dangerous exploits. Alex, Cody's younger brother tries to eat a few of his explosive Mentos, but Cody tosses them into the pond where they explode harmlessly.

Tags: violence

Review:
I only with that I could say the same for the sequel, Agent Cody Banks: Destination London.
I understand that perhaps Hillary Duff's paycheck had risen since the original film, but she did bring something (as embarrassing as it is to say) to Agent Cody Banks that kept the spark alive.
The first film carried with it some decent events that built a strong story which ultimately lead to a better than average film, but it seemed like in this sequel they aimed towards children and empty minds.
This story just felt as if it was unfinished, as if the original screenplay was not dumbened down for children, but instead built another strong adventure, but the studio wanted to capture the child audience, so the butchered the product, leaving frayed edges and unfinished segments, so that they could make room for Anthony Anderson's cheap laughs.
With unfamiliar characters, comedy that seemed forced and incoherent instead of funny, and a story that had that cheapened Velcro feel to it, Agent Cody Banks 2 proved that jumping to quickly into a sequel will place a black cloud on your entire series.
The acting is great especially with all three agents played by Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, and Hannah Spearitt.
Agent Cody Banks 2 is a decent sequel to the original.
Frank Muniz comes back as Cody Banks in this lackluster sequel in which he comes out of kids spy school to track down a hispanic Dictator named Diaz who used to be in the Cia.Lame jokes are abound in this sequel as the jokes will pass you by without making you laugh, although kids might get them (like the chocolate surprise joke and millions of James Bond references)One aspect I didn't like in this sequel are the numerous racial insults and stereotypes in the film ranging from a middle eastern with a bad accent to a black Muslim who plays a trumpet!!
Man I don't know how this on screen, it also explains why Roger Ebert gave this film a thumbs down.Still if you like dumb entertainment check it out.PS: Speaking of dumb racial stereotypes that girl who plays the blonde dumb bimbo who belives the lies of Cody is a near riot, at the expense of dumb blonde stereotypes.A few laughs yes, but is the movie good?
Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a friendly teen but he's really a CIA undercover agent .
Diaz (Keith Allen), Cody's CIA trainer at summer camp, robs a mind-control device from the CIA, and getaways to London.
It's a spoof of James Bond's films , there're even bizarre artifacts like in ¨007¨ movies , plus a role type ¨Q¨ , a weapon deliverer who teaches the various gadgets which Cody Banks will subsequently use .
Support cast is pretty good , such as : Hannah Spearritt as a music student , who is really a British secret agent working on the same case , and Anthony Anderson as Cody's CIA handler in London who becomes a cook at the house of the musical benefactor .
Atmospheric and lively musical score by Mark Thomas .This is a sequel to ¨Agent Cody Banks¨(2003) that directed Harald Zwart (One Night at McCool's , Commando Hamilton , Pink Panther 2) starred by Hilary Duff , Angie Harmon , Cynthia Stevenson , Arnold Vosloo , Keith David , Daniel Roebuck , Ian McShane.
After his appearance in "The Simpsons", I was beginning to think that maybe Blair was starting to line up a new career for himself for when he gets kicked out of Downing Street).And if I say that the only person not to disgrace themselves in this film is Hannah Spearritt, then you may some clue about how bad the performances are.
As for Hannah Spearritt, she makes an appealing easy on-the-eye replacement for Hilary Duff and isn't half bad as the flautist/covert agent, especially given the paucity of the material she was to work with.
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is a weak sequel and its strictly for kids.
Cody Banks, the teen secret agent played by Frankie Muniz, returns with an undercover mission in London, posing as a boarding school student trying to stop a rogue agent who has stolen a mind-control device.
The material in this film is just so childish , which isn't a bad thing since it's a kid movie, but the writers don't even seem to attempt to entertain adults.
enjoyable for ages 7-14.AGENT CODY BANKS 2: DESTINATION LONDON- ***/****PG- action sequences and brief crude humor,language..
He and Anthony Anderson, who plays his CIA "handler" in this sequel, were obviously having fun making this campy tongue-in-cheek secret agent "thriller." This is a very simple movie -- there are no sub-plots, no complicated characters, no psychological complexities -- and I couldn't help but enjoy it.
Right, first things first, I enjoyed the first Agent Cody Banks movie, While silly and predictable, it was fun, entertaining and endearing.
When watching "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" for the zillionth time on cable (okay, keeping it on in the background when there's nothing else to watch), I have to say that this film is one of the best examples of great cinematography I have ever seen.
There aren't blinding special effects like we saw in the first movie (a pack of exploding Mentos provides the best effects and drama throughout the film), but the director deserves an A+ with extra credit for presentation.As for the script, you can almost hear Hilary Duff in the background yelling "Don't do it, Cody!," but Cody went ahead and did it, bringing along a B-list cast to replace quasi-A-listers Duff and Angie Harmon.
The supporting cast this time around consists primarily of Anthony Anderson as Derek, who is looking to prove himself and get "back in the game," and relative newcomer Hannah Spearritt, she of wounded heart thanks to the director, who nixed the idea of a hookup between Cody and her character, Emily, a Scottish special agent of the hottie variety.
Banks has to go to London while posing as a Clarinet player (thanks to a Clarinet that plays itself) in a youth group that is to give a concert just prior to the G7 meeting, where an evil dictator (a very crappy Keith Allen as Diaz) plans to use a mind-control device to take over the world.
The unoriginal plot can be forgiven, however, since this is a Muniz/Banks vehicle, and to that extent the film stays true to the original.Without giving away the ending, the film's climax juxtaposes a beautiful orchestral, "extended remix" rendition of a rock classic with Banks doing battle with the bad guys in a scene that few will likely ever forget seeing, even if it doesn't immediately stand out in their minds.
Older viewers should appreciate the complexity and beautiful cinematography of the finish, while the kids will focus more on the action, but all should be left without any serious dislike for a film whose script could have been better, but whose execution would have been extremely difficult to improve upon.I actually wrote this review while watching "The Dentist 2," and if that story managed a sequel, this one surely has a right to exist.
this is a sequel to the original version(agent Cody banks).
"Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" is the sequel to a film that I confess I've never actually seen.
The London filming set was great for a sequel and may I say that even though I thought the plot was funny some parts were not but I laughed a little at the not so funny parts too.
In this case, the kiddie-spy is Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz, playing the title character Cody Banks.
I guess he had some adventure in the past, as this is the sequel to some movie I didn't see, of course called Agent Cody Banks.
Ever since Muniz started to do these Agent Cody Banks movies I truly believe he has offically lost the acting bug.
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.
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.
Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is at CIA camp.
Now Banks has to go to London as an undercover musical prodigy to get close to a scientist who Diaz needs to perfect a mind control device.
I ended my review of Agent Cody Banks by calling it exactly what it was, which was a direct-to-DVD, TV movie that had the luxury of being released nationwide in theaters.
"The Los Angeles Times" called the original film, "a clever and lively action-adventure," and preceded to call this sequel, "ingenious...a handsome, often hilarious comedy-adventure." Perhaps it was made for the staff of the "LA Times," who appear to be the franchise's biggest fans.Well, Agent Cody Banks 2 and its predecessor certainly weren't made for me.
Now Banks, with the help of the bumbling Derek (Anthony Anderson) and the obligatory beauty Emily (Hannah Spearritt), must try and retrieve the mind control disc and stop Diaz before this all gets out of hand.In the period of a year (exactly a year, seeing as this came out the same weekend its predecessor did), Cody Banks hasn't changed too much.
Cody Banks is the kind of kid you'd like to play as a child, running around your house, maybe with a few fake weapons, sliding on your mother's furniture, on her newly-polished floor, prancing around and starring in your own little show.
I'd rather watch three children play "Cody Banks" in their hours rather than watch a robotic sequel to a film that was already difficult to sit through.I suppose the main problem with this franchise is it's a TV movie playing dress up.
If you were to show the average Joe Agent Cody Banks or its sequel on a theater screen, providing them with no prior knowledge of the film, they'd likely assume it was a TV movie blown up on the big screen.Once again, Muniz is a bit charming here, which goes a long way in a film like this.
Anthony Anderson, a good-spirited but often shortchanged actor, remains the butt of almost every joke, and Hannah Spearritt doesn't have half the chemistry of Hillary Duff from the first film.
She has the blonde hair and a smile, but what she lacks is the irrevocable chemistry Duff had.There are way better films at your local video store than Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
This is a film that provides about as much healthy nourishment to children as a bowl of cereal and a ten minute commercial break.Starring: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, and Hannah Spearritt.
talk about disappointing.this sequel has none of the heart of the original.the first one was silly,but at least it had a semblance of story,and the laughs were honest.here,it's all about the cheap laughs.this movie is slow and boring,with a lame story.if it didn't go direct to video,it should have.Anthony Anderson is in this one,and he can usually be counted on for some good laughs,but he has nothing to work with here.this is case where they should just have stuck with the original,or at least put some more thought into the sequel.it feels rushed,but then it was,considering it came out merely a year later than the first one.Agent Cody Banks 2:Destination London gets a 4/10 from me..
But Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London, well it lacked that realistic effect Zwart brought to the first movie.
If there is to be a 3rd Cody Banks, I think it should involve the original cast and a more serious story with one liners.
Check it out if you liked the spykids movies, or if your gonna watch it check out Agent Cody Banks: 1 first!
I never saw the original "Agent Cody Banks," and don't want to after seeing this, one of the worst mainstream films of the decade.
It is an utter waste of time - a full-blown commercial effort at enticing young kids and their helpless parents into theaters to watch a half-"arsed" effort at a sequel.Oh, I feel for the people who will inevitably be subjected to "Agent Cody Banks 3 - Destination: Puberty," I really, really do..
The kids in the "band" were terrible at both accents and acting for the most part, the scripting in those scenes was diabolical, the gadget guy was enough to make me cringe and want to leave the theatre, and Diaz, well what can I say (did he even go to acting school, I am sure he must have missed the lecture on how to do a decent accent).I am English and I love London, and London looked great in this movie, but that aside, there wasn't a lot to approve of in this movie.I am sad to think that Muniz a talented young actor, following in the footsteps of other vertically challenged comic actors (like Michael J Fox), had to appear in this.
I give Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London an 8 out of 10 stars.
Frankie Muniz returns as the junior CIA Agent Cody Banks.
Diaz (Keith Allen), Cody's CIA trainer at summer camp, steals a mind-control device from the CIA, and escapes to London.
Cody's CIA handler in London, Derek (Anthony Anderson), becomes a cook at the house of their musical benefactor and Diaz's partner.
It's a given that stars of TV shows acclaimed for their writing usually aren't so blessed when it comes to the movies they make during hiatus (what John Larroquette and Kirstie Alley thought of the script for "Madhouse" we can only guess at), but Heaven help us Frankie Muniz really takes steps down when he's not with "Malcolm in the Middle" - not that he can be blamed for taking on "Agent Cody Banks" or being, presumably, contractually tied in to any sequels.
Which brings us to "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London," MGM's hastily-slapped-together second adventure of the teen CIA agent, and a reminder of why it's been a while since there's been a sequel this quick (the first movie only came out last year); these things take time to do properly if you don't do them back to back and release them separately (as Robert Zemeckis, Peter Jackson and even the Wachowski Brothers can testify).
Though the gulf between Cody Banks and Carmen Cortez was pretty wide in the first one, in this movie it's even wider because of the bad writing; not only are the basics of the plot - Cody's camp master steals a mind-control device and plots to use it to control the world leaders, and our hero goes undercover as a music student in an international youth orchestra to flush him out - poorly worked out, but all the characters are flat and cliched, without even the attempts at building them up the first one had.
Cody Banks is back in an all new high energy adventure with new gadgets, slick special effects and wicked chase sequences.This film starred: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson & Hannah Spearritt.Agent Cody Banks 2 is better than the first but it is still not that good of a film, again like the first film it is good when you are younger, but again as you get older this is a boring film.
Cody Banks is back in an all new high energy adventure with new gadgets, slick special effects and wicked chase sequences.This film starred: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson & Hannah Spearritt.Agent Cody Banks 2 is better than the first but it is still not that good of a film, again like the first film it is good when you are younger, but again as you get older this is a boring film.
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004): Dir: Keith Allen / Cast: Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Hannah Spearritt, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson: Campy family fare with nothing to do with London other than its destination.
Teenager Cody Banks is sent to London to retrieve a disc that contains a mind control device.
This time around Banks seemed a little more grown up and his partner played by Anderson did a great job with one liners, in fact the whole cast was better than the original.
Much better music and the director seemed to aim more at the story than the action, which is good in a kids film.
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London.
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).
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London is a complete waste of your time unless you like crude jokes and nothing elsePlot: During a game of hide and go seek at the training camp a top secret mind control device has been stolen by Kenworth (James Faulkner) and Diaz (Keith Allen).
Agent Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is sent by the C.