Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London Movie Review 2004

Banks is back to take on more evildoers who want to RULE THE WORLD!!! AGAIN!!! Now it's British industrialist Lord Kenworth (Faulkner) and Diaz (Allen), Banks's CIA camp commander turned traitor, who have a device that allows them to control what people do and say. Off to London for the big showdown. Cody goes undercover in a youth symphony where he meets his handler (the funny Anderson, who's not given much to work with) and Hilary Duff fill-in Spearritt as Emily, the prerequisite pretty girl (albeit a drab one here). While the first effort thrived on the normal-teenager-becomes-secret-agent concept the second surprisingly ignores the first part and focuses on the at-times hard-to-follow action scenes. Muniz puts in another fine performance and the kids will probably still find it a fun ride, but a trilogy is probably not needed.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Spy Kids, Action-Comedy, Family Ties, Spies & Espionage, London, Royalty, British, Teen Comedy

Screenplay

Don Rhymer, Harald Zwart

Cast

Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Hannah Spearritt, Anna Chancellor, Keith Allen, James Faulkner, David Kelly, Santiago Segura, Connor Widdows, Keith David

Cinematography

Denis Crossan

Director

Kevin Allen

Music

Mark Thomas

Other

Clive Derbyshire, Julianne Jordan, Andrew MacRitchie, Philip Elton, Jason Knox-Johnston, Simon Bowles, Stephen Noble, Richard Holland

Producer

Guy Oseary, David C. Glasser, David Nicksay, Dylan Sellers, Bob Yari, Maverick Films, MGM