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Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

  • Director: Kevin Allen
  • Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Mystery, Comedy, Romance, Crime, Family
  • Rating: PG
  • Runtime: 100 min
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 25
  2. Negative: 11 out of 25
  1. As ingenious and lively as the original film.
  2. Reviewed by: Walter Addiego
    50
    So the movie's OK in spots, but it's mostly so familiar that even the young target audience may get that deja vu feeling.
  3. Reviewed by: David Hiltbrand
    50
    Muniz is quite winning as a plucky teen who is constantly being thrown into situations over his head. But the usually reliable Anthony Anderson e-mails in his performance as Cody's handler.
  4. Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    38
    It's a movie, and certain liberties are bound to be taken, but having Derek stop a moped-driving Brit on the street by pulling out some sort of identification and yelling, "CIA, I need your moped!" is not the way.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 9
  2. Negative: 4 out of 9
  1. MarkB.
    5
    If you liked the original, you'll probably like this one, yada yada yada. A few brief observations: the flood of product placements (excessive even for a 2004 major studio film!) is surpassed only by a surfeit of continuity flubs and self-contradictions. One example: the exploding Mentos (see what I mean about product placement?) that blow up when chewed; in one sequence, one of the good guys attempts to dilute their effect--BY CUTTING THEM UP??? I loved the little actress who played the Indian music student, and the wonderful, tremendously underrated comic actress Cynthia Stevenson, whose role as Cody's clueless mom is limited here to the first and last few minutes of the movie, illustrates once again that old saying about silk purses and sow's ears. Expand
  2. Stands as one of the worst family films ever made.

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