The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Rushed sequel to the 2003 surprise hit "Agent Cody Banks"; this one flopped at the box office and effectively terminated any plans for a series. Teenagers in an undemanding mood might still go for it, but adults may not be so forgiving. Though the cast tries, and there are a few cute and amusing moments, the film is overall uninspired and by-the-numbers. Even the London footage doesn't add much. ** out of 4.

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.

Before I saw this movie on DVD, I had low expectations about this film because of the negative reviews about it. I must say that I liked it, a lot. This film is just as good as the first Banks minus Hilary Duff. This time around, Banks attends a CIA camp during the summer. One night, troops came to take the leader of the camp away. But, Banks thought it was just a drill. How wrong he turned out to be. The guy who escaped is a mind-control geek and he wants to use the devices to take over the world. Banks must head to London, team up with two more agents(a hot chick and an agent who stays in London), and stop the world from turning into mind-control freaks. The acting is great especially with all three agents played by Frankie Muniz, Anthony Anderson, and Hannah Spearitt. The plot was a simple one with a few comedic points added in. I recommend this movie to everybody. I rate this film a 9/10.

When watching "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" for the zillionth time on cable (okay, keeping it on in the background when there's nothing else to watch), I have to say that this film is one of the best examples of great cinematography I have ever seen. There aren't blinding special effects like we saw in the first movie (a pack of exploding Mentos provides the best effects and drama throughout the film), but the director deserves an A+ with extra credit for presentation.As for the script, you can almost hear Hilary Duff in the background yelling "Don't do it, Cody!," but Cody went ahead and did it, bringing along a B-list cast to replace quasi-A-listers Duff and Angie Harmon. The supporting cast this time around consists primarily of Anthony Anderson as Derek, who is looking to prove himself and get "back in the game," and relative newcomer Hannah Spearritt, she of wounded heart thanks to the director, who nixed the idea of a hookup between Cody and her character, Emily, a Scottish special agent of the hottie variety. If I were Muniz, I would have gone on strike over this glaring omission, and the male-teen audience that this film was targeted to missed out on some great fantasy fodder similar to what my generation was offered in films like Flashdance (she's that hot and they could have done tons with her if they wanted). Spearritt was totally unused here.The plot? Banks has to go to London while posing as a Clarinet player (thanks to a Clarinet that plays itself) in a youth group that is to give a concert just prior to the G7 meeting, where an evil dictator (a very crappy Keith Allen as Diaz) plans to use a mind-control device to take over the world. The unoriginal plot can be forgiven, however, since this is a Muniz/Banks vehicle, and to that extent the film stays true to the original.Without giving away the ending, the film's climax juxtaposes a beautiful orchestral, "extended remix" rendition of a rock classic with Banks doing battle with the bad guys in a scene that few will likely ever forget seeing, even if it doesn't immediately stand out in their minds. This one scene excuses the rest of and literally saves the film. Older viewers should appreciate the complexity and beautiful cinematography of the finish, while the kids will focus more on the action, but all should be left without any serious dislike for a film whose script could have been better, but whose execution would have been extremely difficult to improve upon.I actually wrote this review while watching "The Dentist 2," and if that story managed a sequel, this one surely has a right to exist. Watch it on cable if you're an adult, but grab the DVD if there are any children under 16 in the house, or if you are a fan of '60s psychedelic rock redone by a youth orchestra.