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Agent Cody Banks
2003
Cody Banks (Frankie "MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE" Muniz) is a teenage CIA agent. Undercover at a prep school where he pretends to be a typical student, Cody must seek out classmate Natalie Connors (Hilary "LIZZIE MCGUIRE" Duff), whose Dad is a scientist involved in some dangerous business. Equipped with top-end spy gadgetry and .. Read more
| Starring | Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff, Keith David |
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| Director | Harald Zwart |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family |
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Agent Cody Banks
Cody Banks (Frankie "MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE" Muniz) is a teenage CIA agent. Undercover at a prep school where he pretends to be a typical student, Cody must seek out classmate Natalie Connors (Hilary "LIZZIE MCGUIRE" Duff), whose Dad is a scientist involved in some dangerous business. Equipped with top-end spy gadgetry and excellent training, Cody prepares to take down his adversary. The only problem is, Cody doesn't know how to talk to girls!
With nods to other spy films this fast-paced action-packed cool ride of a movie also features perhaps the best skateboard chase ever.
| Starring | Frankie Muniz, Cynthia Stevenson, Hilary Duff, Keith David, Daniel Roebuck, Ian McShane, Arnold Vosloo |
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| Director | Harald Zwart |
| Studio | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Big Adventures |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Family |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Czech, Polish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Turkish, Danish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Czech, Hungarian, Hebrew, Croatian, Slovenian, Icelandic, Bulgarian, Romanian |
| Released | DVD: 24 Nov 2003 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Take the traditional plotline and gadgets of a James Bond movie, add a teen heart-throb from American TV, throw in some cheeky laughs and you've got a tasty recipe for a boisterous and enjoyable family romp. More reality-based and character driven than its closest equivalent, the SPYkids franchise, this action-packed tale focuses on Malcolm in the Middle's Frankie Muniz, here playing a high-school student who's also an undercover CIA agent. Grabbing the attention from the outset with a dramatic skateboard chase involving a runaway car, the film continues to pick up pace as Muniz gets his first assignment — to befriend class cutie Hilary Duff and spy on her scientist father (Martin Donovan). Though some of the story elements are a little hard to swallow (particularly Lovejoy's Ian McShane as a psychotic villain), there's enough humour and excitement to carry the picture.
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Given that the Bond films are aimed at a teen audience, is there room for a teenage version? It may appeal to ten-year-olds, if they've tired of the better Spy Kids movies.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Review from daughter (8) - excellent, she fell for Cody Banks completely and insisted on wearing sunglasses for the rest of the day!
Son (5) was also mesmerised for the last half an hour. Good kids film - if they like Spy Kids, this is a less complicated version! -
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
One minute you think Cody Banks is just an average, shy 15 year old boy, and the next you realise that he's rather better than average at dealing with a crisis.
<br><br>But when CIA-trained Cody is presented with his first mission, it's the one thing he's not prepared for: he's got to chat up a girl, so as to find out exactly what her scientist father is up to with the Baddies (so obviously caricatured that even my 5 year old immediately identified them as Baddies).
<br><br>12-rated films are always a bit tricky, I find. Yes, this film would not be suitable for lots of very young children, given that a mountain blows up and there is a smattering of innuendo. But the language is very restrained - the Harry Potter films have more bad language in them than this - and the violence is minimal. As we always discuss programmes, we watched this one together quite happily, though I would not want them to watch it on their own (at least not for a first viewing).
<br><br>I would say this film would probably be comprehensible and fun for most averagely-aware 8 year olds. If they liked Spy Kids, they would like this. For me, there was far more in this one for an adult to enjoy. -
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Cody Banks (Frankie "MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE" Muniz) is a teenage CIA agent. Undercover at a prep school where he pretends to be a typical student, Cody must seek out classmate Natalie Connors (Hilary "... -