2003 · action · adventure · comedy
Agent Cody Banks
Directed by Harald Zwart1h 42m2003
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.
Our read: Agent Cody Banks (2003) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive action · adventure · comedy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
- funny
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