While watching young children, one of the things one has to do is watch dumb movies that the kids love. Agent Cody Banks 2 fits in that category. There are fast cars, fast motorcycles, and annoying kids running around London trying to prevent some guy from doing something. I'm not really sure what the plot was, then again it does not really matter. From what I got from this movie is that kids like the fact that "one of them" is doing cool stuff, cool James Bond-type stuff. 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. The movie opens at what appears to oblivious parents as a typical summer camp, but really is a super secret spy camp where tens of kids are learning the way of the CIA. No wonder we could not find Bin Laden, kids not even old enough to drive are our spies. There are stereotypical characters all over the movie, including alleged comedian Anthony Anderson as the token black guy. As a rational adult, I could not stand this movie, but the kids in the class I was watching seemed to enjoy the movie, they like the non-stop music and the shiny cars going fast, so take that for what it's worth. Then again, these kids think Hilary Duff has real talent.
