The year before our teenage CIA agent was dealing with nanobots that eat carbon and silicon. 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. That business makes the film hard to swallow if you're over the age of 18.
Instead of shapely Angie Harmon as Frankie's handler, he gets Anthony Anderson instead. They get to stay in an English castle where they believe a scientist collaborator, James Faulkner is working on the device. Muniz is part of a visiting teen orchestra, an international grouping of kids bringing something new to the classics as you see. 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. He was 19 then and still playing a high school kid. After this he couldn't have carried it off.
As I said about the first film, all right for adolescents, adults would have a hard time swallowing all of this.
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. That business makes the film hard to swallow if you're over the age of 18.
Instead of shapely Angie Harmon as Frankie's handler, he gets Anthony Anderson instead. They get to stay in an English castle where they believe a scientist collaborator, James Faulkner is working on the device. Muniz is part of a visiting teen orchestra, an international grouping of kids bringing something new to the classics as you see. 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. He was 19 then and still playing a high school kid. After this he couldn't have carried it off.
As I said about the first film, all right for adolescents, adults would have a hard time swallowing all of this.