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

This movie is about a kid who trains in a kids program for the C.I.A. and is sent in to get close to the daughter of a scientist that created a virus than can destroy anything. The virus has microscopic bugs that can eat through metal and bad guys are planning on using it to do bad guy things. The daughter of the scientist is way out of Banks league and he doesn't exactly have a way with the ladies, but he pulls some moves along with his "handler" and he gets the job done.This movie tries so hard to be a kids version of Jasmes Bond films, but it falls short with gadgets and Bond like manners. There are some kid friendly action such as snowboarding and such, but no adult would like it.Direction isn't bad but its nothing extraordinary. The leads with Frankie Muniz and Hillary Duff were good casting to drag kids in, but bad for fans of movies. I only think Frankie does good on Malcom In The Middle and Hillary, well she is annoying and sucks in anything. Daniel Roebuck is always good and he plays Cody's dad. Keith David is the head of the C.I.A. and always liked him in anything and also the bad guys henchman played by Arnold Vosloo of Mummy fame did a good job.It's a kids movie and good for kids and nothing too violent or out there. There is a bit of sexual innuendo here but nothing bad. I can't imagine an adult wanting to see it though, it falls short of being a good film. 2/10 stars

Taking advantage of a couple of hot teen television properties at the time, MGM fashioned this fantasy for kids about a typical teenage boy with one big secret. Agent Cody Banks is a CIA operative, part of a special program that trains kids for special missions. And in the title role Frankie Muniz gets to do them, providing he's not grounded.The other hot property at the time was Hilary Duff who was in Disney's Lizzie McGuire series while Muniz was doing Malcolm In The Middle. She's Frankie's assignment, Duff is the daughter of a scientist who's gone missing and Frankie has to both protect her and find out what's going on.It's something big all right, scientist Martin Donovan has invented some kind of artificial life that will eat anything carbon or silicon based. That could wreak a lot of havoc in the wrong hands. Donovan is Duff's father, as for Muniz's parents they are unbelievably clueless, but that's part of the charm of these films. One who's not clueless is Muniz's immediate superior and handler Angie Harmon. She's got a great scene in the prep school where Muniz has been put to be close to Duff with some of the adolescent males there. Agent Cody Banks with the star power of two current teen idols made a lot of money, so much so a sequel was made. Now if they had really wanted to do something different, they'd have made Duff the secret agent with Muniz her assignment.

I saw this on TV today and I have to say it is basically male-bashing disguised as a teenage James Bond rip-off.A sexist woman (Angie Harmon), who has about as much understanding and respect for boys as a typical feminist walks straight into a boys locker room and humiliates a few of the swooning males by smacking them in the groin with a towel just to project some lame super tough kick-ass woman act. I love the way the scene duplicates similar action by men in the girls locker room – oh, wait a second. My bad.She steals Cody (Frankie Muniz who looks set to be the female whipping boy (a man who is ashamed to be a man) player of negative male-stereotypes of the future judging by his performance in Malcom in the Middle) and she makes many annoying sarcastic authoritative comments and spars with him during training sessions. She cools down, but the whole matriarchal idea of her dominating all the other officials was irritating as well as her kicking the crap out the typically male dominated enemy forces. Cody himself is portrayed typically as some exaggerated and far less skilled with women version of James Bond and due to the millions of gigabytes of information passed down over millions of years, has clearly been brought up to view women as some superior life form mainly on the basis of his hormonal needs. The stereotypical "loser" who we all laugh at on TV sums up the friendlier side of teenage boys (who are in a very vulnerable state it should be noted, not that anyone cares). His female partner played by Hilary Duff was also repulsive and cruel and the mere fact she has to be a woman to be his partner just sums up the politically correct tripe that action movies have mutated into. Granted she was not shown to be as skillful as he (by a long shot in fact), but he still has to prove himself as is expected of men to be accepted by women (or for her to like him).Terrible film! I don't recommend it to anyone.Rated: PG in USA, 12A in UK due to action violence, some foul language and sexual bullying of minors.Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes