Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Kevin Allen

Writers (WGA):

Jeffrey Jurgensen (characters)
Harald Zwart (story) ...

Release Date:

12 March 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Family | Adventure | Mystery

Tagline:

Adventure is an attitude.

Plot:

With all-new gadgets, high-flying action, exciting chases and a wisecracking new handler, Derek (Anthony Anderson), Cody has to retrieve the device before the world's leaders fall under the evil control of a diabolical villain.

Plot Keywords:

Mind Control | Gadget | Spying | Boarding School | CIA

US TV Schedule:

Tue. Nov. 17	7:00 PM	TOON
Wed. Nov. 18	6:00 PM	TOON

Cast

Frankie Muniz	...	Cody Banks
Anthony Anderson	...	Derek Bowman
Hannah Spearritt	...	Emily Sommers
Cynthia Stevenson	...	Mrs. Banks
Daniel Roebuck	...	Mr. Banks
Anna Chancellor	...	Lady Josephine Kenworth
Keith Allen	...	Victor Diaz
James Faulkner	...	Lord Duncan Kenworth
David Kelly	...	Trival
Santiago Segura	...	Santiago
Connor Widdows	...	Alex Banks
Keith David	...	CIA Director
Rod Silvers	...	Kumar
Jack Stanley	...	Ryan
Joshua Brody	...	Bender

Also Known As:

Agent Cody Banks 2 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for action violence and some crude humor.

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Brazil:10 | Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) | Germany:6 | Iceland:LH | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | USA:PG (certificate #39990)

Filming Locations:

Canary Wharf Underground Station, Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK

Company:

Dylan Sellers Productions

Trivia:

There are 15 credited producers on the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the scene when Cody tells the music prodigies that they are secret agents, Cody stands Berkhamp on his head. You clearly see that while he is on his head his suit coat is on correctly, but in the next shot when he is falling to the floor, it is on backwards.

Quotes:

Cody Banks: How come I get a retainer and a clarinet and James Bond gets a Aston Martin?
Kumar: All in good time double "O" junior.

Movie Connections:

References The Shining (1980)

Soundtrack:

Kamp Woody Song

Cody Loses His Mind

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.