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Agent Cody Banks

Agent Cody Banks (2003)

March. 14,2003
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5.1
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PG
| Adventure Action Comedy Family

Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.

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adonis98-743-186503
2003/03/14

A government agent trains Cody Banks in the ways of covert operations that require younger participants. Agent Cody Banks is the perfect blend of comedy spoof that basically makes fun of spy movies such as James Bond, True Lies and on and on. Muniz and Duff really give 2 very good perfomances plus they had a great chemistry together, the villains honor the Bond era pretty damn good and the film has some insane moments like Cody saving a kid from a car or basically the bad guys getting hit with objects just for a laugh but still not getting silly or anything. It's the kind of film that kids and parents can enjoy!!!

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view_and_review
2003/03/15

Agent Cody Banks is so silly it is clearly a kids movie. But, then again, there's enough cleavage and suggestive visual images that it is very near PG-13. As for the plot: Cody Banks (Frank Muniz) is a junior CIA agent employed to get close to Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) so that the Agency can find out more about her father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan).The movie teeters on spoof territory. It is clearly modeled after the James Bonds/Mission Impossible ilk of films. Although small in stature, Cody Banks has the debonair wardrobe, cutting-edge gadgets, fighting skills and even a smokin' hot car. The bad guys have the cheesy Dr. Evil style lair, a big ugly henchman, plenty of disposable goons and a megalomaniacal scheme for world domination.The movie doesn't provide any real laughs though it is apparently a comedy. The action is too clunky to take seriously and I'm sure there were no Oscar nominated performances coming from this project. There were no redeeming qualities about this movie, yet I watched the entire thing. Yikes!

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SnoopyStyle
2003/03/16

Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a regular teenager in real life but is training as a secret CIA agent unknown to his parents (Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck). Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan) is developing nanobots to eat up oil slicks but he doesn't know that he works for an evil organization E.R.I.S. who will use them as weapons. Cody is tasked to befriend his daughter Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) only that he's not quite the ladies man that the CIA director (Keith David) thinks he is. The agency sends hot and bitter Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon) as his handler.It's a silly little James Bond Jr movie. It does go into stupid territories a lot. I don't mind most of that but it's generally not funny. I do mind Angie Harmon strutting around in the boys locker room. It's more than a little creepy and again it's not funny. His girl shyness is cute but again it's taken to a creepy place. It would be better for the movie to fully embrace the PG rating. I actually really liked some of the action like his rescue of the kid in the runaway car. This should be more of a kids movie but I'm guessing they're trying to target this for teenage boys. It's a mistake since most of them would want something much more grown up.

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mervclan
2003/03/17

I saw this movie back in 2008 and I did not like it. Its a rip off James bond and the characters have no development and why see this movie its one of the worst movies of 2003 along with inspector gadget 2 and is just as bad as inspector gadget 2 and its dull and lame and really cheesy and should not bring out a 3rd one I have not seen the 2nd one but I would say its worser then this and I hope would not see a movie like this again its so stupid and dull and lame and full ramdones If you want a live action agent movie then go and buy James bond I don't recommend this movie to any one unless you have to get your sleep then get this out along with inspector gadget 2 and home alone 4 and Herbie goes bananas 1 out of 10 for stupid story plot. poor

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