Agent Cody Banks (2003)

Agent Cody Banks, is a crime-fighter that I truly believe the humanity will do just as well without. I live a nocturnal existence and as a result I rarely get around to watching boob tube before Conan, therefore I couldn\'t say that I\'ve ever seen an episode of Malcolm in the Middle. My children have a written matter of Large Fat Liar and I\'ve seen most of it around 700 times, so I do consider myself to be something of an authority of Frankie Muniz. Muniz is one of those child stars who excels at acting the kid who makes up for his relation homeliness with his personality. I besides saw the episode of Punk\'d where Ashton steals his car and Muniz cusses like a Hell\'s Angel and completely makes an nookie of himself. I trust it is because of the kinship he showed for expert gadgetry in Big Fat Liar that the CIA took an interest in turning him into a teenage sight. Thus Muniz is pressed into service, albiet somewhat against his will. Somehow, without his parents cognition or license, Banks has been to CIA summer camp and been well-trained to do all the important sight stuff: fighting, shoot, drive, fly, bla bla bla . . . The just Bond-ish acquisition he can\'t seem to master is the artistic production of seducing the ladies. After all he\'s only 15 and suffers from stuttering stage fright when he\'s staring Beth in the face. Muniz fares well enough in this hit and miss Spy Kids-meets-007 adventure, in the opening scene he uses his jet-propelled skateboard to redeem the life of a child in a fleer car. Yes the Agency has weaponed Banks with all the requisite gizmos for this line of work: X-radiation glasses (I would receive gladly linked the Representation for a pair of those unique); a cell phone with a holographic display; a wristwatch that emits an electric shock; the aforementioned skateboard; a portable pen-laser-blow-torch combination; you know, standard spy-issue equipment. Banks is nothing if not a natural when it comes to all this high-tech tasking, unluckily in order to save the earth he inevitably to charm the beautiful daughter of a scientist and this is where our would-be Bond struggles. When aspect to face with the fairer sex he freezes up and turns into a incoherent twerp in need of training. So he must quickly be tutored in the fine art of amore by agent Angie Harmon, a no-nonsense knock-out Bond-girlesque agent world Health Organization insists on being referred to as his manager, as opposed to his partner. Personally I wouldn\'t have had a problem with this subtle distinction if I were Sir Joseph Banks - simply what do I know about espionage. The scientist in question is beingness made to work for an evil organization known only as \" E.R.I.S.,\" where his creation \"nanobots,\" (microscopic robots that can be programmed to do anything), are to be employed as a mystic weapon to conquer the world. Hence the Bureau needs their ace teen spook to embark on the dangerous mission of infiltrating this operation by sweet-talking his way into the heart of Natalie (the scientists darling girl played, of course, by Hillary Duff). Daunting business for danton True Young Banks - not only if must he talk to this daughter, if the world is to be saved, he needs to become her (gulp) fellow. During these scenes the film does offer a few funny and victorious moments, that will no doubt impinge on a familiar chord with the films target hearing. Unfortunately, unlike many kid\'s movies - Spy Kids, for exercise, very trivial of this film is written well enough to entertain the adults in the audience. In fact the penning credits are shared by six different writers - never a good polarity. The handwriting is a scattershot function riddled with typical teenaged toilet humor - gas, dog poop, prep-school bullies, and the like. Muniz does as good a job as any young actor could\'ve been expected to do, given the clichéd scenarios he encounters in this cut and paste Mission Implausible. All of this film\'s stock characters are peaked drawn and thus the film never rises supra the stratum of a simple kid\'s movie. And for kids it will find an audience. The majority of the grownup characters in the film are either evil or scheming and parents are portrayed as clueless creatures to be avoided at all price. Muniz does his best to salvage this formulaic flufster - but finally it comes up missing in a few important areas such as excitement, originality, laughs, intelligence and even chemistry.

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