Agent Cody Banks (Special Edition)

Agent Cody Banks (Special Edition)
by Harald Zwart

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DVD Review: Another Young James Bond? Another Great Teen Movie? No!
Summary: 2 Stars

However, I have to at least tell you about the story if I want to convince you it IS very bad, because just nobody can believe something until they get to understand it.

The story is what you can call a spy movie and is about a CIA agent whose name is Cody Banks(Frankie Muniz), just like the title. And what is so different about this agent(and this is what they try hard to remind the audience at all times) is that he is only fifteen. He belongs to a CIA's young-agent program and although CIA spent ten million dollars on the program, they didn't teach him how to talk to girls. So problems comes when he was on a mission to make friend with a teenage gir, Natalie Cononors(Hilary Duff,) whose father is a scientist who has participated in an evil plan that may be able to destroy the world. And when the mission is completed and he is honorly dismissed, Natalie was kidnapped by the people in the plan in order to force her dad, who has determined not to quit the plan, back to work for them. The CIA says the thing is over and refuse to nose in, so Cody, being already fond of Natalie, maks up his mind to go back and rescue her alone.

Well, seems exciting, doesn't it? Only if not for so many faults. Hilary Duff looks so much older than the boy that it all seems unatural. I'm fifteen too and I don't think the average boys in my grade is this short and frail. The boy seems like another Harry Potter or another Frodo(both referring to the movie character instead of the book), and not a James Bond. He jerks his eyebrows together and around, he never looks excited or happy or scared, but only nervous. The only times when it looks better is when he kicked people sky high and even that, looks unatural.

Then when Cody's out on missions, the CIAs watch him so closely, worrying about him being captured(again remind us he's only fifteen and too young to be captured)that I totally lost interest and concern about what's happening. Since, if he's that all well protected, why should we care? And why should it be called an adventure if he can be rescued by his handler coming from the sky on an aircraft when even being caught on a burning tree?

And still there is the movie's unaturalness,sometimes even funny. Like, when Cody and his handler cautiouslessly land the aircraft RIGHT outside of the cave in which the bad guys camp.And the bad guys, not even aware of their existence, let them break into Natalie's prison room. And then they are being captured stupidly because Cody talks to Natalie freely not aware of the camera above. Shouldn't a well-trained spy be cautious and watch out for cameras? And shouldn't a big camp have cameras near its entrance? Natalie, the forever screaming girl, suddenly has the courage to stuff a deadly "Nanobot" into the bad guy's mouth. But why does the bad guy have to open his mouth and swallow it? Isn't it funny that he's willing to take whatever his prisoner holds out? Imagine if somebody pushes something you don't know to your mouth, even when you are relaxed and peaceful would you take it in without a look? And Natalie surely does't push it hard.

They say that the soundtracks of the movie costed the most part of the money but, why, it's only the replica of 007's latest one:Die Another Day. You don't have to hear it for yourself.Many parts are just the same music inserted with some crazy songs they think to be very "teen-like".

The movie is a disappointment and I wonder at so many reviewers giving it five stars. They say it's cool but it's not. They say it's for teenagers but it's not--I found Cody looking younger than Home Alone. They say it can be a family movie and, well, you can say it is--My father and I laughed frequently--not of the comedy elements in the movie but of it's akwardness.

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