Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London [Blu-ray]

Director: Kevin Allen Kevin Allen

Overview

Fifteen-year-old CIA operative Cody Banks (played by Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz) is back in action in this comedy adventure, which sends the youthful secret agent to Old Blighty. Banks returns to Kamp Woody, the CIA training center disguised as a summer camp, where he's given a new partner, the bumbling but sharp-witted Derek (Anthony Anderson), and a new assignment, to track down a sinister double-agent who has made off with an experimental mind-control machine. The villain has made his way to Great Britain, so Banks is enrolled in an upscale private school in England, where he's forced to join the school band despite his lack of musical talent and finds himself working alongside Emily (Hannah Spearritt), a fellow teenage espionage agent. Keith David, Daniel Roebuck, and Cynthia Stevenson all return from the first film, while British filmmaker Kevin Allen takes over as director.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/24/2016
UPC:	0887090121712
Original Release:	2004
Rating:	PG
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:40:00
Sales rank:	16,351

Special Features

Outtakes; Deleted scenes; Extended scenes; Agent Cody Banks: back in action

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Frankie Muniz	Cody Banks
Anthony Anderson	Derek
Hannah Spearritt	Emily
Cynthia Stevenson	Mrs. Banks
Daniel Roebuck	Mr. Banks
Anna Chancellor	Jo Kenworth
Keith Allen	Diaz,Berkhamp on Double Bass
James Faulkner	Kenworth
David Kelly	Trival
Keith David	CIA Director
Connor Widdows	Alex Banks
Santiago Segura	Santiago
Rod Silvers	Kumar
Jack Stanley	Ryan
Joshua Brody	Bender
Sarah McNicholas	Marisa
Philip Pedersen	Bender's Mate
Paul Kaye	Neville
Harry Burton	Westminster Headmaster
Julian Firth	Isambard Jerkalot
Martyn Ellis	Welsh Security Guard
Mark Williams	Inspector Crescent
James Dreyfus	Gordon
Patti Love	Woman
Henry Miller	Moped Man
Masato Kamo	Japanese Tourist
Sam Douglas	US President
Leilah Isaac	Sabeen on Bassoon
Keiron Nelson	Habu on French Horn
Theora Toumazi	Sonya on Violin
Keshini Sukhram	Violinist
Atim Laber	Cellist
Carly Minsky	Oboist
Chris Bodell	Brass Player
Javkhaa Chuluunbaatar	Harpsichordist
Sammy Razack	Percussion
Mark Thomas	Composer
Martin Ace	Composer
John Powell	Composer

Technical Credits

Kevin Allen

Dylan Sellers

Harald Zwart

Don Rhymer

Jeffrey Jurgensen

Kevin Allen	Director,Screenwriter
Jason Alexander	Executive Producer
Jennifer Birchfield-Eick	Executive Producer,Producer
Richard Briscoe	Special Effects
Frazer Churchill	Special Effects
Richard Conway	Special Effects
Kerry David	Executive Producer,Producer
Claudia Dehmel	Special Effects
Jim Dowdall	Stunts
David C. Glasser	Producer
Danny Gold	Executive Producer,Producer
Daniel Hubbard	Casting,Casting
Michael Jackman	Executive Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Andreas Klein	Executive Producer,Producer
Madonna	Executive Producer,Producer
Mark Morgan	Executive Producer,Producer
David Nicksay	Producer
Guy Oseary	Producer
John Papsidera	Casting
Dylan Sellers	Producer,Screenwriter
Bob Yari	Producer
Harald Zwart	Screenwriter
Don Rhymer	Screenwriter
Jeffrey Jurgensen	Screenwriter
Robert Meyer Burnett	Producer
Oliver Atherton	Special Effects
Lee Asquith-Coe	Sound Effects
Simon Brown	Sound Effects
Pauline Griffiths	Sound Effects
Derry David	Executive Producer
Clive Derbyshire	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

London calling! Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz is off to the land of 007 as teenage secret agent Cody Banks, pursuing a CIA renegade who has stolen a mind-control device. His cover: playing clarinet in an orchestra featuring musical prodigies from around the world. Just as Cody's awkwardness with the opposite sex hindered his first mission, here the difficulty arises from his lack of musical ability (turns out he only joined his high school marching band to meet girls, news which is greeted with a hysterically incredulous look by his superior). After only a scant two films, it seems that Frankie has already outgrown this fledgling franchise, but his adoring audience will still get their kicks from his spy-kid antics, complete with Bondian action and way-cool gadgets. Anthony Anderson (Kangaroo Jack) provides some flop-sweat comic relief as a demoted agent reluctantly assigned to be Cody's handler in London. Hilary Duff is missing in action this time around, but U.K. pop singer Hannah Spearitt -- portraying an undercover British intelligence agent named Emily -- is just as cute. No damsel in distress, she gets to kick some butt. Clever product placement (exploding Mentos) and the requisite mildly rude humor will amuse the target audience, but it is the extremely likable and personable Muniz who makes Destination London such a fun trip.

Barnes & Noble - Donald Liebenson

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London has about the usual dose of sequelitis, meaning that most everything is a little worse than the original -- and sometimes, a lot worse. The one exception is the delightful choice to play Cody's love interest: charming Brit Hannah Spearritt, whose animated facial expressions and snappy line deliveries put her in a class above Hilary Duff from the original. Unfortunately, Cody's other primary cohort is where Destination London comes up well short of its predecessor, as Anthony Anderson makes a poor substitute for Angie Harmon as Cody's partner/handler. Anderson's particular brand of bumbling physical comedy is a good fit for many roles, but not the role of a CIA agent -- even a disgraced agent trying to make good. The fact that he's installed as a supposedly high-end chef in a snooty British academy -- but can't make it through a kitchen without knocking everything off the shelves and covering himself in flour -- suggests that this version of the CIA doesn't have much interest in keeping a low profile. Similarly unlikely is the decision to place Cody in an academy for gifted musicians, when he only briefly toyed with an instrument as a child, and possesses a limited ability to think on his feet (when asked about his favorite composer, he hastily provides the name "Heinz" off a nearby ketchup bottle). Strains to credibility are not supposed to be deal-breakers in a movie about a teenage spy, but let's just say the strained credibility in the original Agent Cody Banks was offset by funny writing and a freshness to the enterprise in general. By contrast, Destination London feels as stale as a three-week-old crumpet.

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