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Avg. Critic Score: 32 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
9 OK for kids 9+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    As ingenious and lively as the original film. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Apart from funny supporting work by the inventor of the Mind Control and the guy in the "Q" role, the movie is pretty routine. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    Kids should be reasonably diverted for a couple of hours, but odds are they'll have forgotten the whole thing by the next morning. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    So the movie's OK in spots, but it's mostly so familiar that even the young target audience may get that deja vu feeling. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe | Janice Page

    Muniz has better secret-agent toys to play with, funnier lines and sidekicks helping him out, and a bit more discerning director in Kevin Allen ("The Big Tease"). Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Scott Foundas

    Mildly diverting caper. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Stretching what was a cute concept to the breaking point. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly |

    At bottom, there's just too much spy in young Cody, and too little kid. The writers might've taken (another) page from the ''Spy Kids'' playbook and infused the action with youth relevance. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    In terms of inspiration or even the slightest shred of ingenuity, Banks ranks more like an 000 than an 007. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Dave Kehr

    Mr. Allen's work is compromised by an apparent inability to match his shots in a spatially coherent fashion. It's never easy to tell who is chasing whom and in which direction, a needless confusion that dampens many of the thrills and scuttles quite a few gags. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 9+ Moderately cute action comedy good for tweens.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this slick sequel to Agent Cody Banks features lots of cartoon-style action and humor. There's little more appealing to older kids, tweens, and teens than young heroes who are stronger, smarter, and more heroic than any of the adults in the film. Cody Banks and his lovely English teen counterpart are the clever kids who save the day when the well-being of the world is at stake. The usual exaggerated spy violence is almost nonstop: explosions, martial arts, chases, fights, and falls. Occasional potty jokes and insults are heard, along with a reference to being "pickled" from "meds." And the film is heavy on product placement both visually and in dialogue.  
  • Families can talk about what Diaz says to Cody: "Trust equals death. Trust nobody -- including me." Why did he say that? How do we know who deserves our trust?
  • Howo do you think Agent Cody Banks 2 compares with the original film?
  • What do Cody and Derek learn from each other?
The good stuff
  • message true1 Positive messages: Promotes "kid power" as the young heroes are relied upon to right wrongs and deliver results. The good guys defeat the greedy, tyrannical baddies.  
  • rolemodels true3 Positive role models: Includes an assortment of multicultural kids, and lots of diversity among the authority figures. Parents are portrayed as gullible and entirely clueless. A nearly blind, elderly English butler is a source of comedy throughout, including in a driving sequence.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Lots of over-the-top heroics and exaggerated action scenes: numerous martial arts fights, suspenseful chases, captures, military attacks, careening vehicles, falls from high places, explosions, and sequences in which characters are subjected to mind control techniques. It's performed as spy-spoof gallantry, with no graphic or fatal injuries on camera.
  • sex false0 Sex: Not an issue
  • language false1 Language: Some insults: "Frankenstein," "whack job," "loser," and some mild potty humor, specifically involving pee and the delivery of urine samples.  
  • consumerism false3 Consumerism: TY Beanie Babies, British Airways, Mentos candy, Pepsi, Heinz foods, Bentley autos, Big Daddy clothing, and Enyce.  
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false1 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A mom says she’s "pickled" from her medication. Characters drink adult beverages at a business meeting. Someone is seen smoking in the background.  
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